Cui bono?

With all the talk about the "bipartisan" nature of the Abramoff scandal, we took a look at the list of characters (politicians only) as posted on Thinkprogress (via Firedoglake via Digby). Instead of a simple Republican/Democrat breakdown, we thought it would be instructive to also consider the state the politician represented, Red or Blue (according to the 2004 presidential election results). Here is the matrix:



What political interests were being served by Abramoff's money, liberal-Democratic-blue or conservative-Republican-red?

CORRECTION: Anonymous pointed out that our initial matrix had Conrad Burns of Wyoming from a blue state, but should be classified red state.


posted by Quiddity at 1/03/2006 04:17:00 PM