Does this count as coming off the reservation?
David Brooks, of all people, has launched into a scathing attack against the Evil Party operators who brought us the "K street project." Did someone sneak in and replace his drugs with placebos, or has Karl decided that it's time for the long-awaited hit on Grover Norquist?
«Abramoff's and Scanlon's Indian-gaming scandal will go down as the movement's crowning achievement, more shameless than anything the others would do, but still the culmination of the trends building since 1995. It perfectly embodied their creed and philosophy: "I'd love us to get our mitts on that moolah!!" as Abramoff wrote to Reed.
«They made at least $66 million.»
Of course, things printed in the New York Times (motto: "What's good for the Carlyle Group is good for us") are likely to fall with a dull thump onto the street, never to be seen again, but this would seem to spell the end for Ralph Reed's attempt to be "elected" governor of whatever state he's trying to be governor of. Pity (or "pity", as the case may be) that he didn't mention the Coward in Chief or any of his immediate henchmen, because I'd love to see them share the joy again.
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