Murdoch's Times UK:
Stephen Payne, who claims to have raised more than $1m for the president’s Republican party in recent years, said he would arrange meetings with Dick Cheney, the vice-president, Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, and other senior officials in return for a payment of $250,000 (£126,000) towards the library in Texas.
During an undercover investigation by The Sunday Times, Payne was asked to arrange meetings in Washington for an exiled former central Asian president. He outlined the cost of facilitating such access.
“The exact budget I will come up with, but it will be somewhere between $600,000 and $750,000, with about a third of it going directly to the Bush library,” said Payne, who sits on the US homeland security advisory council.
He said initially that the “family” of the Asian politician should make the donation. He later added that if all the money was paid to him he would make the payment to the Bush library. Publicly, it would appear to have been made in the politician’s name “unless he wants to be anonymous for some reason”.
Payne said the balance of the $750,000 would go to his own lobbying company, Worldwide Strategic Partners (WSP).
Ho hum.
Move along people, move along. There's no story here. We already know the Republicans are shameless thieves and liars who live only to destroy the government after they're done looting it.
Of course, it was the Democrats who just gutted the Fourth Amendment, with the help of our peerless leader Barack Obama.
So there you are.
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so why is he putting a weasel up the Republican's pants?
DCB, Maybe Because He Knows No One Will Pay Attention
That's why what he practices is actually journamalism, which is the professional version of truthiness.
On the other hand, I'm not sure that Lambert's snark, much as I admire and enjoy it, is the appropriate response here. Not everything is about how dumb the Democrats and Obama are. Although the perfidy and corruption of the Republicans should in no ways be construed as an excuse for Democratic perfidy, stupidity and corruption. That said...
This is very much about the Republican playbook and the accompanying SCLM
handbook, or perhaps we should call it a textbook. After all the fuss made through-out the Clinton years, and even now, well into what had been, prior to the primary, the beginning of a superlative post-presidency for Bill Clinton, about campaign fund-raising scandals, Lincoln bedroom overnights, and who are the contributors to his Library and his Foundation, here we have the raw truth about this Republican Party, which didn't just start under Bush, although he has carried this kind of corruption to hitherto unimagined heights, or would that be depths, caught in an act of trading government favors for what is supposed to become a Presidential Library.
Here's a project for America's future for you; we should be organizing now to maintain information picket lines, and vigils at SMU, once the library if built, and after it becomes known how many lies and historical fantasies it tries to hook wink Americans into believing, whose purpose is to inform the public, any public who finds a reason to visit SMU, of what those lies are, with references to the truth. Just a constant, well-maintained vigil by ordinary citizens, handing out tear-sheets.
It's never too early to start planning for the future. And the grassroots kind is my favorite kind of accountability. It might get so embarrassing that SMU might just find itself having to rethink it's relationship with the Bush Library.
SMU's faculty & the UMC lobbied hard against this 'liberry'. N/T
We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18