And the plot thickens...

I've mentioned the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal a few times before -- in 2002, state GOP officials hired a telemarketing company to jam the Democrats' phones on election day. Several folks have been sent to prison over this, and one final figure is still fighting his way through the courts.

Last December, James Tobin was convicted for his role. He's appealing his conviction, but it's expensive.

The Republican National Committee has already acknowledged paying almost three-quarters of a million dollars towards Tobin's defense, to the dismay of some (and, sadly, the apathy of many others).

Well, apparently the RNC is following the lead of Republicans in Congress and the White House, and continuing to pour more good money after bad. A New Hampshire newspaper columnist has been following the case, and he noted that the RNC paid Tobin's lawyers a whopping $1,771,360.21 on the very day he was convicted.

No wonder the American public wants to throw the Majority Party out about now.

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