But he's not an intern!

Mark Shields turned a memorable phrase around tonight (1/6/06) on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer about L'affaire Abramoff. Bush and The Republicans, that sleazy bar band from the turn of the century, are scrambling to give away money tainted with the Abramoff stink:

Jim Lehrer: There's a list in the Daily Hotline of about, I don't know, a hundred members of congress who gave money back, too.

Shields: That's right. But - they all seem to be reminiscent of a former predecessor of Bush's in the White house who denied an illicit relationship with a White House intern, very emphatically. They all seem to be saying, "I did not have political relations with that man, Jack Abramoff.