New nickname for Big Oil Bob: "Sweatshop" Schaffer

Wow, Bob Schaffer really was a busy bee while in congress. Only problem is he didn't have a very good radar for who were his friends were and who were the felons:

Although he earned the reputation of a do-nothing congressman -- Schaffer's career intersected with the worst abuses of the Tom DeLay/Jack Abramoff era, and to enjoy the perks of the globetrotting legislator, Schaffer happily partook in the whitewashing of human rights abuses.

"Given that many Republican members, including Tom DeLay, Bob Ney and Conrad Burns, have lost their seat or gone to prison based on their association with this criminal, it's pretty remarkable that Schaffer seems to be proud of his association with these sleazy Abramoff-sponsored junkets," said Taylor West, a spokeswoman for Schaffer's Democratic opponent, Mark Udall.

In order to get a free trip to the beach, Bob Schaffer became a paid stooge for Jack Abramoff. The consequences? An elected representative to the United States Congress became an apologist for a "guest worker program is notorious around the world for forced abortion, slavery, child prostitution, sex trafficking, beatings, female workers kept in shacks with no plumbing surrounded by barbed wire...."

Not quite the family values you'd expect from a Republican.

Oh, wait, maybe those are exactly his values. Thanks, Bob, for clarifying your principles with an unprincipled trip on the Tom DeLay/Jack Abramoff lobbying dime.