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Oh, if at first you don’t succeed and all that.

Bob Ney is still looking for a disparagement of choice to use on his one-time partner in (alleged) crime, Jack Abramoff.

Now Ney’s office is saying Jack Abramoff shouldn’t be believed because he’s a “slick trial lawyer.” That’s a good one. This truly has to be the reductio ad absurdum of GOP anti-trial lawyer politics.

And, by the way, has Jack Abramoff ever done any trial work in his life (no, smart alecky looks. I mean as a lawyer.) As far as I know, he got a law degree, but never practiced.

Actually, the whole quote is even better. Ney’s spokesman Brian Walsh rails at one of Ney’s critics for basing “his latest negative attacks solely on the tainted words of a slick trial lawyer and a convicted felon like Jack Abramoff.”

Remember, one of the crimes Jack Abramoff is convicted of is bribing Bob Ney.

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