There are two very consistent trends in regards to ongoing investigations related to the Abramoff scandal:

1. Conservatives widely and swiftly condemned any members of the Republican Party who were suspected of taking money from Abramoff under questionable circumstances.
2. Liberals widely and switfly condemned all Republicans while insisting that no Democrats had any part of this scandal.

If you go back and read some of my old posts, you'll see that I too was very upset when this scandal broke. My main point was, basically, that I expect this kind of behavior from Democrats, not from Republicans.

Regardless, much of the money spread around by Abramoff through his clients went to the GOP, and as Republicans are clearly in power here in Washington, they will bear the greatest brunt of this scandal. And with that, I'm perfectly satisfied.

For those to whom much is given, much is expected.

At the same time, I remain quite amazed at how liberals are in what seems to me to be a state of ferocious denial over the part that some Democrats seem to have played. And suspect number one, according to a source in the DOJ, is none other than Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, whom we know to have taken about $66,000.00 in donations from Abramoff clients over a four to six year period.

DNC Chairman, Howard Dean, has been appearing on every talk show and giving every interview possible with the message that "Nobody got anything out of the Democrats from Jack Abramoff..." Now, while I'm not sure that this sentence makes much sense, I have heard him speak on this topic often enough to know that he too furiously denies any dealings with Abramoff. "This is a Republican scandal," he and so many other liberals say, repeating it like a mantra in their hopes to drown out the facts.

The other comment I hear consistently goes something like, "of course, the first thing Republicans are going to say is that 'Democrats did it too!'" Well, it's not the first thing that I said, but, yes, Democrats took money from Abramoff as well. That is a fact, so why try and deny it? And please note that this comment reveals two important things about the attitudes of those making this kind of statement: