While the Republicans are re-igniting the culture wars in St. Paul while begging for four more years, Jack Abramoff is in a courtroom begging for mercy:
Jack Abramoff, once a top Republican lobbyist on K Street, is asking a federal judge to show mercy when she sentences him Thursday in an epic corruption case that continues to rock Capitol Hill and the GOP establishment.
Abramoff, who is already serving a 70-month sentence stemming from his fraudulent purchase of a Florida casino-cruise ship company, will go before District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle to be sentenced in a scandal that resulted in a prison term for one former member of Congress, a dozen other guilty pleas by former Republican aides and officials, and new ethics legislation enacted at the start of the 110th Congress.
Barack Obama worked on that ethics legislation. Sarah Palin worked with an Abramoff lobbyist.
Discuss (and no, I did not watch the speeches tonight. Was reading Nixonland and watching BSG).