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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Mother's Milk of Politics Turns Sour

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/071808b.html

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
July 18, 2008

Excerpt:

Last Sunday, The Times of London released a remarkable video of one of the president's buddies and fund raisers –Stephen Payne, a political appointee appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

The Times set him up in a video sting, and taped a conversation in which Payne offers an exiled leader of Kyrgyzstan meetings with such luminaries as Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice – provided he makes a whopping contribution to the Bush Library, and an even bigger payment to Payne's lobbying firm.

Payne tells him, “It will be somewhere between $600,000 and $750,000, with about a third of it going directly to the Bush Library... That's gonna be a show of 'we're interested, we're your friends, we're still your friends.'”

The White House denies any connection between library contributions and access to officials and harrumphed at the preposterous idea that Payne had a close relationship with the President.

Unfortunately, there's at least one photo of Payne with the President cutting brush at his Crawford ranch. There’s also one of Payne demonstrating more guts than common sense, on a rifle range with Deadeye broccoli Cheney.

mke · Facilitator Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 27

Speaking of "Deadeye broccoli" we used to call him "Dickless" because it took him so long to make a decision. I guess we didn't know a good thing when we had it.

Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

When a politician is going to make a decision it is the beginning of an auction. They try to hold it open for higher bids as long as they can. Wink