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Lie Down With the Dogs, Wake Up With Fleas

Perhaps the most striking thing about the Abramoff plea deal is the extent to which he's more interested in his own self-preservation more than anything else. Casino Jack spent the better part of the nineties making seven figures a year engaged in a high-stakes legalized protection racket. When the game was up, he snitched on his Congressional supporters before even demanding a plea bargain. Most party hacks can be counted on for a bit more loyalty than that; after all, once he gets ouf of prison, he'll have is own talk radio show waiting for him, right? The conservative political machine is by and large subsurvient to the goals and desires of elected officials, but Abramoff seems interested in increasing his own personal power more than preserving the institution of Republican politics.

The lesson for Congress is that when you do business with self-interested snakes who are just in it for the money and the muscle, they don't have any reason to stay loyal when the chips are down. Caveat emptor, indeed.

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Last updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 11:58 03 January 2006