Tom DeLay to announce he is leaving Congress

Just heard this on NPR. It's nice to know that, from time to time, justice does prevail. But, in the long run, what difference does it really make?

His move ensures his seat will most likely remain in Republican hands.

Anyone want to join in a few choruses of "We hate to see you go"?

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Yea, I thought about that. Too bad he wasn't arrogant enought to run again!

Anon

I'll be happier when I see him hauled away in handcuffs.

Is this like announcing you're leaving a2k?

DeLay's leaving will allow those who deeply desire to solidify the Republican Party's standing as America's first religious political party to have their way.

The present Republican Party's central concerns are not economic, they are moral. Their positions on abortion, homosexuality, evolution, restrictions on science -stem cell research, global warming etc, - based, not on science but on scripture driven beliefs, are all the hallmarks of a religious philosophy.

Whereas Tom DeLay, Dick Armey and Newt Gringrich wanted to accrue and use political power for political ends -lower taxes, smaller government- the ones left standing in the party, led by an evangelical President, are those who would prescribe for us how, and with who, we live our lives based on the Bible's wisdom and not the Constitution.

Joe(be good, my children, or they will come and get you.)Nation

Did you see the film of DeLay getting a standing ovation from the religious leaders, after his announced resignation?

I chuckled when I saw the pictures of Tom DeLay and the Christian Conservatives at a meeting some days ago. It should be apparent to a thoughtful person that a man in Delay's place, under indictment for money laundering, would be the last person the church ladies want at their social.

This is not your average group of church ladies and they are not social. They are interested in political power. They are like the Catholic Church of the middle ages, drunk with the thought of controlling a powerful nation and having it do their bidding.

Their is saving grace. It lies in the corporate boardrooms. The very first time the christian right steps on the toes of big business, they are history. Money talks and the corporations have it.

Reality bites, but for this to all go away and get back to normal, we need a reprise of the 60's. We need to take it to the streets and tell teh democrats that they had better clean their house because they too will fall like DeLay and that we want our country back.

Sounds good!

What turned my stomach was Delays references to Jesus, God and "the Lord" in his farewell statement.

Delay remains the darling of the delusional right-wing "Christians."

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Tom DeLay: Victim of GOP Timidity

The most stunning aspect of Tom DeLay's resignation from Congress isn't that he was forced out by a wave of bad publicity that began with his indictment last September for breaking a law that wasn't even on the books when DeLay allegedly violated it.

The real surprise of the DeLay debacle is that his fellow Republicans allowed him to be ripped apart by Democrat-friendly media piranha - without firing a shot in return.

Democrats would have surely backed off on their "Culture of Corruption" mantra had the GOP made even a minimal effort to fight fire with fire.

Instead, Hill Republicans looked the other way on one Democrat scandal after another - and will likely end up paying the price by losing control of Congress in November.

Here's a short list of investigations the GOP should have launched - not for reasons of partisan revenge - but because they warranted the full oversight of the party in control of Congress:

• Bergergate: The theft and destruction of top secret national security documents by former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger in a blatant attempt to obstruct the 9/11 Commission investigation.

Berger's crime was easily one of the most serious ever committed by a top government official. Yet the GOP Congress declined to probe further after the Bush Justice Department cut such an embarrassingly light plea bargain that even the Berger case judge was appalled.

• Rathergate: You'd never know it from the lethargic Republican reaction, but when a mysterious Texas source supplied forgeries of President Bush's military records to CBS News just weeks before the 2004 election, it was a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Compounding the political intrigue, CBS tipped a top staffer in the Kerry campaign on the coming Bush document assault.

But after Texas authorities declined to pursue a request for a criminal investigation from several GOP House members, the matter was promptly dropped. Republican congressional interest in getting to the bottom this scheme to steal the 2004 election after Texas authorities opted out: Zippo.

• Schumergate: The illegal purloining of Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's credit report by staffers on Sen. Chuck Schumer's Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee certainly seemed like a ripe topic for some congressional oversight. But like the Bergergate case, it appears that Bush Justice will let the guilty parties off with a slap on the wrist - without fingering any higher ups.

In fact, Schumer's committee is now insisting that it acted in an "exemplary manner" by not using the illegal info against Steele. GOP interest in further investigation? Bubkiss.

• Nukegate: We've already had several hearings into President Bush's so-called illegal NSA terrorist surveillance program, which was first revealed in James Risen's new book: "State of War."

But there's been little interest in the other bombshell development revealed by Risen: President Clinton's decision to give Iran doctored blueprints for key nuclear components that allowed the Iranians, in Risen's words, to "leapfrog one of the last remaining engineering hurdles blocking its path to a nuclear weapon."

With Sen. John McCain now predicting "Armageddon" as a result of the Iranian nuclear threat, one might think that a report like this might be ripe for congressional investigation.

But one would be wrong. Republican interest to date in a Clinton Nukegate probe: Zilch.

The list of Democrat scandals passed up by Republicans could probably fill a book. But others that deserve honorable mention are the surpression of the Barrett Report, media leaks by anti-Bush CIA insiders and a probe into Sen. Robert Byrd's activities while he was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan.

Compare those unexploited nuggets to the psuedo-scandals that supposedly drove DeLay from office - and it becomes abundantly clear why Republicans now stand an excellent chance of being forced to turn over the keys to Capitol Hill this November.

If you think living in a Christian nation is hard, wait until America gets put under sharia law due to the activities of de-moker-rats and other leftists.

In Slip, DeLay Says Third Former Aide Guilty
By Paul Kiel - April 5, 2006, 10:54 AM
Paul Kane makes a hell of a catch in his piece today in Roll Call. He points out that during his interview with Time, Tom DeLay let the cat out of the bag and admitted that a third former aide of his will be found guilty:

TIME: Were there any instances where you failed to adequately supervise people who worked in your office?
DeLay: No, no. Look: I have had hundreds of people work for me. Unfortunately, there's three - one that we let go, Scanlon - that I don't yet, I'll wait until they're found guilty. But it looks like they have violated the trust of my office.

Only two of DeLay's former aides have already pled guilty: Tony Rudy and Michael Scanlon. Ed Buckham would be the third, and as we pointed out last week, he was recently implicated in Tony Rudy's guilty plea. So it already looked like he was likely to go down, but DeLay does us all the service of confirming it here.

DeLay says he'll "wait until they're found guilty." Whether he's talking about a forthcoming guilty plea from Buckham is not clear.

See our post from last week as to who Buckham could bring down with him. As we pointed out, it would be Buckham's guilty plea that would be real trouble for DeLay. Maybe that's why he bowed out Monday.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000288.php

In the quote of Delay, he did not mention Buckham. That man my be indicted, and may be found guilty--nevertheless, Kiel and Roll Call are jumping to conclusions which are not borne out by the quote provided.

I expect no less of you.

Sentanta,

Whomever you may refer to with the name "Sentanta," i do hope they get the point of that idiotic emoticon . . .

Cavolina wrote:


Not so fast, Coach. There is a new movement afoot hereabouts, (See Washington Post Article Today) called "creation care" to avoid the greenier, more liberal, environmentalism and guess whose toes it steps on? You can't fight global warming and it's effects on the poorest of nations without butting heads with a few CEOs.

And who is trying to get ahead of this new wave? Frist. The Happy Christian Surgeon. Look for him to try to find his way to the head of the Creation Care Cabal.

Joe(Making the world safe for the Deodelusionists)Nation

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