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Defunders of Liberty - THOMAS FRANK - Hurting the Left & John Tierney +
Por THOMAS FRANK - The New York Times - Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006 at 10:34 AM

Frank: Hurting the Left - In Washington today, an idea is not worth hearing unless a large amount of somebody’s money is behind it. - PLUS: Brilliant prank exposes federal neglect of New Orleans - PLUS: NY Times: Blistering Drought Ravages Farmland on Plains - PLUS: Rumsfeld says he's ready for another war & more

GUEST COLUMNIST
Defunders of Liberty
By THOMAS FRANK
Published: August 29, 2006


Before he became K Street’s most enterprising racketeer, Jack Abramoff was best known as a sort of young Robespierre of the Reagan Revolution. In 1983, as chairman of the College Republicans, he declared that he and his minions did not “seek peaceful coexistence with the left. Our job is to remove them from power permanently.”

By all accounts, Abramoff carried out this mission with a Ramboesque single-mindedness. A ferocious latter-day red-baiter, he seems to have encountered Communists everywhere he went in early-80’s America, fighting them (literally, with his fists) on campus, detecting their influence in the nuclear freeze movement, scheming to checkmate students worried about El Salvador by calling attention to the crimes of “their beloved Soviet Union.” As a reward he got his handsome mug on the cover of the John Birch Society’s Review of the News.
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http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11800689.html



Brilliant prank exposes federal neglect of New Orleans
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11801739.html



Genius Bush delays federal payments 'till Oct. when they'll count as part of a different fiscal year
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11802343.html



Celebrating Irrelevancy - Cindy Sheehan
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11802003.html



On YouTube, Whistleblower Outs Coast Guard
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11801056.html



NY Times: Blistering Drought Ravages Farmland on Plains
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11803175.html



Rumsfeld says he's ready for another war
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11802483.html



Coming up on Today's Newswire

OP-ED COLUMNIST
South Park Refugees
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: August 29, 2006


I have bad news for the G.O.P. regarding that promising new bloc of voters, the South Park Republicans. It turns out they’re not Republicans, at least not anymore.
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/2006/08/29/



MARC PARENT

CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/14409
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