Bush Doesn't Know Jack?

Oh, apparently he does.

For weeks, Scott McClellan, perhaps the WHPS who has been caught straight out lying more than all others combined in the history of the United Sates, claiming Bush doesn't have a clue who Jack Abramoff is. He may have been at a few of those notoriously famous White House Hanukah parties around 2000-2001, but as McClellan has said, "Trying to say there's more to (their connection) than the President taking a picture (with Abramoff) in a photo line is just absurd. "

Right. If you recall, Bush didn't know Ken Lay, or Jeff Gannon very well either. If Cheney was arrested and carried out of the White House tomorrow by his hands and feet, McClellan would claim, "the President has no recollection of who this man is...he has probably been present at the White House during large gatherings, but the President meets thousands of people."

Bush himself has said the following:

"You know, I, frankly, don't even remember having my picture taken with the guy. I don't know him. And this investigation will -- needs to look into all aspects of his influence on Capitol Hill, and if there's some in the White House, I'm sure they're going to come and knock on the door. But I -- I can't say I didn't ever meet him, but I meet a lot of people. And evidently, he was just like you were the other day, at a holiday party -- came in, put -- the grip-and-grin, they click the picture and off he goes. And that's just -- I take thousands of -- I mean, somebody told me I maybe take over 9,000 pictures this holiday season. And he obviously went to fundraisers, but I've never sat down with him and had a discussion with the guy. "

Well, allow me to connect some dots for those who don't understand how close Abramoff is to the President, and the Republican party.

- Jack Abramoff is a lifelong Republican. In college he organized Massachusetts campuses for Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, was chair of the College Republican National Committee, and was a very close friend of Ralph Reed.

- He also served as chairman of the United Students of America, a rightist student group based at the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation.

- Abramoff went on to raise $100,000 for the Bush/Cheney campaign, elevating him to "pioneer" status for the amount of funds raised.

- Abramoff and his wife gave $10,000 to the Bush-Cheney Recount Fund in 2000.

- As the Bush-Cheney Administration began in 2001, Jack Abramoff was an official member of the Administration's Transition Team.

- Susan B. Ralston was Abramoff's closest assistant before she went on to be hired as the most senior assistant to Karl Rove. In July of 2004, she was promoted from "Executive Assistant to the Senior Adviser" to "Special Assistant to the President and Assistant to the Senior Advisor” at the White House.


Unfortunately for Bush, Abramoff's emails to his close friend, Washington Magazine editor Kim Eisler, reveal some candid details about the relationship between the two Republican crooks.

- Among other things, one email stated, "(Bush) saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids."

- Abramoff emails also stated, that despite the Alzheimer's-like picture McClellan is painting of the president, he "has one of the best memories of any politicians I have ever met." When asked about the emails, McClellan has stated, "I think what the President said still stands."

- Kim Eisler also recounts, "There’s a picture of Abramoff’s wife with Laura Bush. In one of the meetings, it was not at a Christmas or Hanukkah party as the White House keeps insisting, but in fact was taken in the Old Executive Office building where Jack had taken several of his clients up to shake hands with the President."