Grover Norquist: Toast

No doubt about it: what goes around comes around. And what's been going around for far too long is an obscenely long string of Republican corruption and unaccountability that's now coming back to bite the GOP's big elephant in the ass.

The latest catch of the day: Grover Norquist.

Via the WaPo:

Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, "perpetrated a fraud" on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a report issued today.

The report includes previously unreleased e-mails between the now-disgraced lobbyist and officers of the nonprofit groups, showing that Abramoff routed money from his clients to the groups. In exchange the groups, among other things, produced ostensibly independent newspaper op-ed columns or press releases that favored the clients' positions.

Officers of the groups "were generally available to carry out Mr. Abramoff's requests for help with his clients in exchange for cash payments," said the report, issued by the Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee after a one-year investigation.

You can hear the right-wingers keyboards burning as we speak - blaming the Democrats. And that might actually mean something if none other than John McCain hadn't pushed for the investigation and provided material in the form of e-mails for it. Of course, they'll all be calling McCain a RINO and a "librul" now since he violated the party's not-so-secret oath of silence about the crimes of the GOP.

Here's a list of all of the groups involved:

The groups are Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform; the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, which was co-founded by Norquist and Gale Norton before she became Secretary of the Interior; Citizens Against Government Waste; the National Center for Public Policy Research, which was a spinoff of the Heritage Foundation; and Toward Tradition, a religious group founded by Abramoff friend Rabbi Daniel Lapin.

Oooo...a spinoff of the lofty Heritage Foundation. That can't be good news for the Repubs. heh

Seems the Republicans just can't get a break from all of the bad news coming their way just prior to the November election. Where's Rove? Napping?

Nobody is listening to Bush. Darth Cheney is out stumping scaring people around the country. Iraq: fubared. Afghanistan: getting worse. North Korea: saber-rattling in a very big way. Iran: off the front pages. Foleygate: just won't go away. OBL: still on vacation.

How can the Dems possibly screw this up?

Don't answer that.