Funny stuff from Raw Story. On the anniversary of the breaking of the Abramoff scandal, the DCCC (an otherwise useless organisation) did something pretty funny. They sent an Abramoff impersonator to visit Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) (you may recall that he was one of the chief sucklers on Abramoff’s lobbyist teat).

The Abramoff poser, trailed by a DCCC staffer and HOH, of course, entered Feeney’s office in the Cannon House Office Building and attempted to leave the gift, a package of golf balls (all the better to commemorate Feeney’s now-infamous golfing trip to Scotland with Abramoff) with a note. But Feeney’s front-desk staffer, who looked a bit mystified about the strange attempted delivery, told the impersonator that he couldn’t leave the golf balls, apparently fearing they might violate the House gift ban.

The note wishing her boss a happy anniversary was fine, she said.

The be-hatted Abramoff copycat then withdrew without a scene.

When HOH questioned him, he would identify himself only as Jack, and answered our questions in character — although since the coat and hat he wore were more khaki than Abramoff’s black, we couldn’t help but think he looked more like a young Indiana Jones than the imprisoned Abramoff.

“I’m still trying to keep my friends here on Capitol Hill,” Jack told HOH.