There's apparently an interview with Jack Abramoff in Vanity Fair. I can't help but have a moment of schadenfreude watching Abramoff drag a seemingly endess list of Republicans into the abyss with him. When you see how he's talking about it, you can clearly see one obvious trait of Abramoff: he's a total egomaniac. I don't get the sense that this is any sort of vendetta being played out, or anything like that, but rather he's just pissed that he's suddenly a pariah in D.C.

So all these people distance themselves and he's too full of himself to consider letting them get away with it. He just goes on and on about how buddy buddy he was with these people, not to damn them, but rather to raise himself up. It's like, "see I'm cool because I hung out with the cool kids." This is what always screws up the corrupt. For all of their planning and conniving and any means to an end thinking, there's always going to be people who are too high on the notion that they are in on it. They go and they brag about what wonderfully unique snowflakes they are, and then it all comes crashing down.