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Given the potential damage, it was no surprise that Republicans sought to make Abramoff a bipartisan stain, circulating a seven-page research paper titled "Jack Abramoff's Democrat Connections," which lists contributions and news stories associating the disgraced lobbyist with nine Democratic Senators and six Democratic House members. But the fact is that about two-thirds of Abramoff-related money went to Republicans, and that may have already begun to shift the political equation 10 months before the congressional election. In an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday, respondents said they favored a generic Democrat for Congress over a Republican...
...essay by Patricia Marx, "Check out My New Numbers," with totally made-up statistics about President Bush [Dec.19], was a real dud. I have no problem with puzzling over the strange mind of W. or with Time's taking up a full page to develop a keen, witty perspective on some topical issue, but Marx's piece was, at best, filler. It seemed like one of those papers I wrote on the school bus on the way to class despite having had two weeks to get it done. TOM WRIGHT Burke...
...Mockingbird. It's her night, but he's spoiling it with obsessive talk about his unfinished book In Cold Blood. She asks him how he liked the film. He rattles on, totally ignoring her. She drops a gentle hand on his shoulder. "If you read this on a page," says Miller, "it's so simple. She hardly says anything. But when you look at what she did, it's the whole movie in a nutshell. There's so much complexity there: from disgust to respect to compassion and understanding. She's wise in that moment...
...down-a-well stories in the past, moved America to hold an electronic vigil. Soldiers are killed in Iraq, for instance, every week. They are no less brave, and their families grieve no less. But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast...
ABANDONED. By TOM DELAY, 58, his bid to remain House majority leader, amid a series of congressional scandals and calls by fellow Republicans for him to step down (see page...