Cycloptichorn wrote:Hastert, of course, was looking to set the precedent because he knows for a fact that FBI agents looking through Republican offices will find stuff that they shouldn't. Not hard to figure that one out.
Quote:If this was a Republican, he would be gone long ago, for more than a couple reasons, one they would probably show remorse and two, their own party would place much pressure on them to quit.
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Tom DeLay? Hello??!?!
The Republicans kicked out several members of the Ethics committee because they censored him, remember?
Where were the Republican calls for him to resign? How about Ney, or Cunningham? They didn't exist.
Cycloptichorn
Aren't Ney and Cunningham gone? And what is DeLay doing now? And if you wish to equate breaking convoluted campaign finance rules with personal embezzlement, I would have to conclude you have things way out of whack in your mind. How many campaign finance rules have been broken by Democrats with hardly a word said, including Gore, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and even Nancy Pelosi herself, how long would you like the list, cyclops? Did Tom DeLay get campaign funds from China? I don't recall that happening at least, as it did with Clinton, and of course nothing happened, nothing, zip nothing, because your party does not care and never will apparently.
Hillary takes the apparent equivalent of a kickback from a political friend of a hundred grand, and nobody cares, nothing, zip, nothing, cyclops. Its been a few years ago, but corruption is corruption. If the Democrats truly cared, it would matter, but it doesn't does it?
As I recall, the Republicans had a rule that if one of their own was indicted, no matter how ridiculous it was, even by some partisan judge in Texas, it was their own rule to remove them from their leadership position or whatever as I recall. Thats what happened to DeLay as I recall. And Democrats have no such rule in their party, so they skate. Isn't that right, cyclops?
