Demagogue

Just kidding. But there's no telling what we'd hear if the deputy defense secretary were suddenly engulfed in a major scandal. On a related note, Reuters is reporting:

Jack Abramoff said in correspondence made public Thursday that President Bush met him “almost a dozen” times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the former lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal.

“The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. Perhaps he has forgotten everything, who knows,” Abramoff wrote in an e-mail to Kim Eisler, national editor for the Washingtonian magazine.

Abramoff added that Bush also once invited him to his Texas ranch.

But this is definitely not Jack's "ranch" outfit -- that is, unless the conversation were to focus on the president's NSA spying program ....