Thomas Frank has an opinion piece in today's New York Times that's part rant and part rallying cry. On the whole, the sentiment is pretty partisan, so I'm not going to waste space here on the specifics he gets into. However, I did just want to highlight a couple of choice quotes that Frank uses to characterize Jack Abramoff and the legacy he's left in politics.
Before he became K Street's most enterprising racketeer, Jack Abramoff was best known as a sort of young Robespierre of the Reagan Revolution.
Right on the money, that one, right down to his own Reign of Terror on the American left.
In Washington today, where each bad idea to rattle through the nation's billionaire class seems to have a dedicated think tank to push it along, we are living out Abramoff's dictum: that an idea is not worth hearing unless a large amount of somebody's money is behind it.
It kind of hurts to hear it put in such plain and honest words. This is the Abramoff legacy, and it's one he and his ilk will be proud of unless we do our part to make sure the status quo changes.
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