DeLay’s Dirty (Baker’s) Dozen
DeLay’s Dirty (Baker’s) Dozen
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been a busy man these last few years. Whether bribing congressmen, threatening political opponents, vacationing with lobbyists, or gutting House ethics rules, it’s been hard to keep up with all the Hammer’s activities. Here are thirteen highlights from DeLay’s illustrious career:
DELAY KILLED INVESTIGATION INTO LABOR ABUSE IN MARIANAS ISLANDS: In 1998, DeLay helped kill a “congressional fact-finding trip that was being planned as part of an investigation of sweatshop conditions in the garment industry in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.” Jack Abramoff represented the Northern Mariana Islands at the time, aiding them in their quest to avoid U.S. labor laws. To this end, Abramoff flew dozens of lawmakers and their aides for luxurious vacations to the balmy islands, including one 1997-98 New Year’s trip for DeLay and his wife. (It was on this trip that DeLay called Abramoff “one of my closest and dearest friends.”) Later that year, Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) decided to leading a fact-finding investigation into worker abuse in the islands’ garment industry. When DeLay caught wind of the investigation, his office threatened the Hoekstra with loss of his subcommittee chairmanship if he continued.
DELAY RAISED CORPORATE CASH FOR TRMPAC: DeLay is embroiled in a scandal in Texas for his active participation in illegally funneling corporate funds to assist state political campaigns. DeLay’s political action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), is under criminal investigation for using corporate money to finance Texas campaigns. DeLay has tried to distance himself from the group, but documents show DeLay “personally forwarded at least one large check” to the group and was “in direct contact with lobbyists for some of the nation’s largest companies” on TRMPAC’s behalf. [Source: NYT, 3/10/05; Salon, 10/04/04]
DELAY BRIBED CONGRESSMAN TO VOTE FOR MEDICARE: DeLay has admitted offering to endorse Sen. Nick Smith’s (R-MI) son Brad, who was running for Congress at the time, in exchange for Smith’s “yea” vote on the Medicare bill. His actions violated House rules and earned DeLay a “public admonishment” from the Ethics Committee. Smith originally alleged — and then retracted after pressure from House leaders — that DeLay also offered a $100,000 bribe for his vote. DeLay extended the role call on the Medicare bill for nearly three hours in order “to avoid an embarrassing loss.” [Slate, 10/1/04; WP, 10/1/04]
DELAY USED TAXPAYER MONEY FOR PARTISAN STUNT: The House ethics panel rebuked DeLay for using government resources to help locate a private plane he thought was carrying Texas Democratic legislators. DeLay was trying to force the legislators back to the capitol so he could push through his “bitterly disputed congressional redistricting.” The ethics report cited House rules that bar members from taking “any official action on the basis of the partisan affiliation…of the individuals involved” and said DeLay’s behavior raised “serious concerns under such “standards of conduct.” [WP, 10/7/04]
DELAY PAID FOR GOLF TOURNAMENTS WITH CASH MEANT FOR KIDS: DeLay used a children’s charity, Celebrations for Children Inc., as cover for collecting soft money from anonymous interest groups, some of which was used for “dinners, a golf tournament, a rock concert, Broadway tickets and other fundraising events” at the Republican convention in New York. Because the money was supposedly for charity, companies wishing to curry favor with DeLay were able to do so without revealing themselves as campaign donors. Federal laws governing tax-exempt charities allow no more than an insubstantial portion of a group’s revenue to be spent on activities other than the charity’s main stated purpose. [CBS, 11/14/03; WP, 3/24/04]
DELAY PROMISED ‘SEAT AT TABLE’ FOR DONOR: In one of its three public rebukes, the House Ethics Committee cited the belief on the part of executives at an energy company, Westar Energy Inc., that a $56,500 contribution to a political action committee associated with DeLay would get them a “seat at the table” where key energy legislation was being drafted. DeLay also participated in Westar’s golf fundraiser at The Homestead resort in the summer of 2002, ” just as the House-Senate conference on major energy legislation…was about to get underway.” [WP, 10/7/04]
DELAY TOOK MONEY FROM TEXAS PRISON COMPANY WITH LEGISLATION PENDING: DeLay “took a $100,000 check from a private prison company” — the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) — at a fundraiser for his children’s charity, the DeLay Foundation for Kids. CCA — whose 20-year history has been “fraught with malfeasance, mismanagement, and abuse” — was part of an ongoing lobby for a bill that would privatize up to half of Texas’s jails. DeLay is known for wielding major influence over the Republican-led legislature that will decide on the matter. [Knight Ridder, 11/30/04; Texas Observer, 6/6/03]
DELAY BLOCKED LEGISLATION FOR PARTISAN VENDETTA: In 1999, DeLay received a “private rebuke” for threatening retaliation against the Electronic Industries Association when the trade group named a Democrat to head its Washington operation. To punish the group, DeLay stopped two uncontroversial trade bills that would have benefited the EIA and told the association it would lose all GOP access unless it hired a Republican instead. The group still hired the Democrat, but a little later, the EIA quietly hired a former House Republican staff member who promptly showed up at a fundraiser for DeLay’s ARMPAC. [Texas Observer, 2/4/00; Slate, 12/5/98]
DELAY TOOK SHADY DONATIONS FOR LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: The list of recent donors to DeLay’s legal defense fund includes two lawmakers placed on the House Ethics Committee this year (they replaced conservatives who were purged for being critical of DeLay), and corporations implicated in DeLay’s alleged fundraising violations. Corporate donors include Bacardi U.S.A., the rum maker that has also been indicted in the Texas investigation, and Reliant Energy, “another major contributor to a Texas political action committee formed by Mr. DeLay that is the focus of the criminal inquiry.” In December, DeLay was forced to return funds from registered lobbyists because those contributions violated House ethics rules. [NYT, 3/13/05; Time, 3/13/05]
DELAY LEFT ETHICS BEHIND ON EUROPEAN VACATION: DeLay enjoyed a luxurious vacation at the Four Seasons Hotel in London in mid-2000, paid for by an Indian tribe and a gambling services company, both of which opposed gambling legislation DeLay voted against two months later. The payment was funneled through lobbyist Jack Abramoff, best known for teaming up with right-wing religious fundamentalist Ralph Reed to close down a Texas casino operated by the Tigua Indians in 2002, then persuading the tribe to pay the two of them $4.2 million to lobby Washington lawmakers, including DeLay, to reopen it. According to expense accounts obtained by the Journal, Abramoff financed DeLay and DeLay’s staff’s stay at the Four Seasons hotel to the tune of $4,285.35. The total reimbursement for expenses in London was $13,318.50. [WP, 3/12/05; Raw Story, 2/25/05; WP, 9/29/04]
DELAY LEFT HOUSE RULES BEHIND ON ASIAN VACATION: DeLay accepted an expense-paid trip to South Korea which, in direct violation of House rules, was paid for by a South Korean lobbying group. The Korea-US Exchange Council, a group registered with the Foreign Agents Registration Act, was created with help from DeLay’s former chief of staff. The cost to send DeLay, his wife and three of his lawmaker friends to Seoul for three days was $106,921, the fourth largest cost for any single trip taken by lawmakers between January 2000 and September 2004. [WP, 3/10/05]
DELAY KICKED ETHICS OUT OF HOUSE: DeLay and his allies in the House have sought to cripple the House Ethics Committee. The committee, which rebuked DeLay three times last year, was purged of its most “responsible” members last month and is currently “paralyzed” by a proposed rules change that “would prevent the committee from launching any investigation without the support of at least one Republican–a restriction designed to protect the majority leader.” [WP, 2/5/05; WP, 10/7/04; Time, 3/13/05]
DELAY TRIED TO CHANGE RULES TO PROTECT POWER: DeLay was the driving force behind the decision by House leaders to abandon an 11-year-old party rule that “required leaders to step aside temporarily if indicted.” The idea was dropped only after rank-and-file lawmakers complained “the party was sending the wrong message.” [NYT, 11/18/04; WP, 3/11/05]
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FUN WITH TOM IS’NT HE JUST A HOOT.
March 14th, 2005 at 1:29 pmTime for the hammer to get the hammer.
March 14th, 2005 at 4:31 pmTom Delay, the ethically-challenged Texas Republican and House maority leader, teeters on the brink of political perdition.
Despite the best of efforts of Speaker Dennis Hastert and the House GOP to save the once-and-future exterminator from his growing rap sheet, the end may be nigh.
It is, the Avenging Angel notes gleefully, time to bring the Hammer down.
March 14th, 2005 at 6:28 pm[…] ty Leader and former Whip for House Republicans who is coming under increased scrutiny for a mountain of probable ethics violations. House Republicans have been scrambling to change the rules to […]
March 14th, 2005 at 6:31 pmI wonder what the comments from the neocon peanut gallery of Rush, Hannity, and Coulter would be saying if Tommy were a democrat?
March 14th, 2005 at 8:42 pmThe neocon peanut gallery has no standards when it comes to their own.They only have standards when it comes to democrats.
March 14th, 2005 at 10:47 pmNAIL THE HAMMER
March 14th, 2005 at 11:11 pmWhat is America waiting for? Please help us end this crime. We should all start doing something about this. Let the masses rise up and show this greedy idiots that this is not to be tolerated anymore.
March 15th, 2005 at 2:39 amFRAMING ALERT!
Using DeLay’s “Hammer” nickname is too flattering (at least to his base).
We should use is other nickname: “Hot Tub Tom”
It evokes all the smarmy lobbyist imagery, plus making him look “elitist.”
It will alienate him from his base far more effectively than painting him as a bully.
March 15th, 2005 at 6:41 amThese comments are fine, but we need to reach people who don’t already think DeLay is a member of the SS in plain clothes. Every person who reads this should go to their local newspaper, find the first story about or quoting DeLay, and respond with a letter to the editor that points out some or all of these DeLay gems. It’s best if you can connect his misconduct to the newspaper story, such as “readers should know this is the same Tom Delay who _________________.”
Keep in mind that for most papers, letters under 250 words are best, you have to provide your name, address, phone number & an e-mail address (they don’t publish all that, they need it to contact you), and most newspapers have an e-mail address where you can submit letters over the net. Most television news programs also have online letters responding to their shows–you can write them, also.
Please, start bitching to the general public. We need to increase the number of people who know what’s going on behind the pablum headlines.
March 15th, 2005 at 10:22 amI am so happy they have finally nailed this rotten person to the wall. He should be either put in prison for what hes done, loose his job in the senate, and pay back all the monies hes stolen over the years.
March 15th, 2005 at 11:13 amPROGRESSIVES AND LIBERALS DON’T WANT TO FACE IT, BUT IT’S GOING TO TAKE A REVOLUTION TO UNDO THIS NEOCON HORROR.
March 15th, 2005 at 11:18 amHmmm, this is the same guy who got Newt Gingrich kicked out as House Whip & he’s turned out to be WORSE. Seems like the status quo these days; Ashcroft was bad but Gonzalez may be just as bad. The Hammer doesn’t just need “the hammer” he needs a frickin’ JACKhammer!
March 15th, 2005 at 12:45 pmWhy do not Democrats speak of ——————– SHOCK & AWE————————
———-DEMOCRATS CREATE WEALTH AND JOBS———–
1.From Harding In 1921 to Bush in 2003
2.Democrats held White House for 40 years and Republicans for 42.5 years.
3.Democrats created 75,820,000 net new jobs — Republicans 36,440,000.
4.Per Year Averageâ€â€Democrats 1,825,200—Republicans 856,400.
5.Republicans had 9 presidents during the period and 6 had depression or recession.
6.Republicans had a recession/depression in 177 months and Democrats in 32 months.
7.DOWâ€â€grew by 52% more under Democrats.
8.GDPâ€â€grew by 43% more under Democrats.
————————————————————————————————————
Comparing Democrat’s hero-CLINTONâ€â€versus Republican’s hero–REAGAN
———————————————————————————————————–
1.JOBSâ€â€grew by 43% more under Clinton.
2.GDP—grew by 57% more under Clinton.
3.DOWâ€â€grew by 700% more under Clinton..
4.NASDAQ-grew by 18 times as much under Clinton.
4.SPENDING–grew by 28% under Clinton—80% under Reagan.
5.DEBTâ€â€grew by 43% under Clintonâ€â€187% under Reagan.
6. DEFICITSâ€â€Clinton got a large surplus–grew by 112% under Reagan.
7.NATIONAL INCOMEâ€â€grew by100% more under Clinton.
8.PERSONAL INCOMEâ€â€Grew by 110% more under Clinton.
SOURCESâ€â€Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.BLS.Gov)–Economic Policy Institute (EPI.org)â€â€Global & World Almanacs from 1980 to 2003 (annual issues)
http://www.the-hamster.com (chart taken from NY Times)
National Archives History on Presidents. http://www.nara.gov
Clarence Swinney-Political Historian
Please submit comments to cwswinney@netzero.net or P.O. Box 3411-Burlington NC-27215
successes?
March 15th, 2005 at 12:46 pmCongressman said $200,000 CAP would solve SS problem.
Why do not D push it? $131 per week.
90-200=$110,000
6.2% X $110,000=$6820 per year=$131 per week out of pay checks for those who got big tax cut
Business add on is still pocket change.
Even $500,000 is no big deal to them.
March 15th, 2005 at 12:50 pmclarence swinney
political historian
burlington nc
http://www.cwswinney@netzero.net
Somebody needs to give Tom “Ol’Cockroach” DeLay the boot . The “Raid Maid” has been a crook for years, and one of the main cheerleaders of getting rid of all New Deal and Great Society social programs.
March 15th, 2005 at 1:26 pmDeclare Your Independence from DeLay
March 15th, 2005 at 2:53 pmYou know that when it seems like, or that you may actually have more scandals about yourself than the number of your US Representative District number (22), it’s time to go home. Tom DeLay is a national embarrassment. Those who…
it is not enough to speak to the choir on all the above. we all need to do something active. love the dialog tho. delay must be held accountable, i.e., prosecuted. how do i help?
March 15th, 2005 at 9:27 pmIt’s nice to see they are looking into this stuff. Anyone want to wager on if they can actually get any of it to stick??? Let’s all hope!!
March 15th, 2005 at 10:15 pmIF THIS IS THE START OF THE FIRST CARD TO FALL IN THE ” HOUSE OF CARDS ” Then there is a better future for all of us. Next the Bush crime family and company.
March 16th, 2005 at 12:07 pmThis would make a great commerical show Tom DeLay criticizing Vice President Gore and President Clinton for their “wrong doings” and what Delay demands should be done about it. Then flash to the present with all the wrong things Delay has done and recommend what he said should be done to Gore and Clinton. Throw it right back at them! Remind the public of the Republican’s holier then thou attitude during the Clinton/Gore years. Ask the public why it was wrong then but it is okay now to be dishonest and a down right liar?
March 16th, 2005 at 12:55 pmPosters detailing the crimes of “Hot Tub Tom” DeLay!
The AgitProps direct-distributed media project offers downloadable posters for people to print out and distribute on their own.
http://agitprops.org
I encourage folks to print them out on a color printer at work if possible, but the posters look good in monochrome as well.
The idea behind AgitProps is for people all over the country to pint out a stack of posters and post them all over their area — even putting them on cars in the parking lots of big box stores. If we spread the word about AgitProps widely enough, we can take our country back one Wal-Mart parking lot at a time!
March 16th, 2005 at 2:33 pmtime to put him in the slammer
March 18th, 2005 at 8:27 amagitprop seems to be making the fatal mistake of believing that Congress still checks and balances the Executive branch, and also the ludicrous notion that Dems oppose Reps.
Wake up, agitprop!
Dems could’ve terminated Condi Rice’s political carreer in January (by examining her 5/02 stmt about no one could have ever imagined…), but chose not to. Dems are worthless. Republicans may oppose Dems, but that doesn’t mean that Dems oppose Reps!
Bush confesses but no one notices!
March 18th, 2005 at 3:42 pmIf John Kerry truly opposed George Bush, then how come Kerry never questioned Bush’s own self-incriminating 9/11 statement, hmmmm?
March 18th, 2005 at 3:50 pm“DeLay no longer”
March 18th, 2005 at 8:40 pmIt is beyond belief that the Congress of the these United States could allow Tom Delay. Makes one ashamed of citizenship. He is liken to the scum in a cesspool. This must be cleaned up.
March 22nd, 2005 at 9:52 amI humbly suggest we start calling him “Bug Spray DeLay.” It works on numerous levels, not the lesat of which is the beautiful image of Tom in his former life leaning over the deadly chemicals with which he worked, and huffing them for all he was worth. It explains a lot.
March 23rd, 2005 at 12:14 amWhy don’t we withhold food and water from Tom Delay. Would ease the country’s suffering.
March 24th, 2005 at 5:35 pmIt is time to send this Tom Delay aka, The
Texas “Bug Killer”(Exterminator) back to Sugarland,Tx back to previous occupation which was Pest Control.
So we can reclaim our country in tact…from him and the GOP Congress..
He is the biggest Stink Bug we have in inside the beltway today !!!!
March 28th, 2005 at 8:27 pmI’m afraid you may be right…. “Comment by DEBBIE  March 15th, 2005 @ 11:18 am”…..Let’s hope not…..but…..be ready…
March 29th, 2005 at 12:38 amUnfortunately I fear that Debbie is absolutely right, Didn’t we leave England for the same reasons (taxation ….without representation)?If it ever comes down to a revolution again….the first thing we need to do is get rid of this Banking institution, and return to sound banking.Please take the time to read your Constitution, it is the one document from which all other laws and legislation is supposed to be based against (not the other way around as most politians seem to think). Do not let them take our rights away as citizens of the Republic (This is not democracy). I am a citizen of the Republic a non 14th Amendment citzen, and as such hold no allegiance to the District of Columbia ( a corporation for profit).Maybe if all of us stopped paying taxes for just one quarter….we could get thier attention!……I quit long ago.My concience will not allow me to fund wars for profit. Voting for them…..that only incourages them. Paying the Infernal Riegn of Sin…..that enables them. If you want peace and prosperity…..stop doing the opposite…..we as a people need to MAKE A STAND!!! Contiution: Article 1 sections 8 & 10….Please read and think about the implications. Good luck and I hope that all of you join me in breaking thier backs….Financially!
April 6th, 2005 at 5:51 pmThere are lots of petitions pushing for Tom Delay’s resignation floating around - check out moveon.org’s
April 6th, 2005 at 6:51 pmHow can the American people be so dumb? Things are not getting any better for the average person and this man continues to be in goverment. So sad!
April 6th, 2005 at 8:51 pmIt seems DeLay has succumbed to Gingrich’s disease, which consists of the combination of an inflated sense of self-importance combined with the public spotlight. When Gingrich was a bomb throwing back bencher, he could say anything he had a mind to; when he became Speaker of the House, the American people finally started to pay attention to what he was all about and that led to his downfall. I supspect the same will happen to the bugf***er DeLay. Given his recent running off at the mouth, he’s now a political liablity and will shortly be dumped by the GOP.
April 7th, 2005 at 1:58 amPlease get DeLay out of our government. He is the poster child for everything that is corrupt and wrong!
April 7th, 2005 at 8:34 amMaybe we as Americans should start to look for leader who have more than money.
April 8th, 2005 at 12:41 amIt is time for those of you who live in states with Repuplican members of Congress to send them a message….leave the far right behind or be voted out. As a Mainer with two Rep. Sen. (Snowe & Collins) this message has been sent to them.
April 8th, 2005 at 7:42 amhis man DeLay is the slimiest man in Congress for a lomg tome! Newt looks like a kid next to him. Let’s get rid of him!!!!!!!!!
April 8th, 2005 at 1:16 pmDelay is the slime of the earth. More specifically, he represents the ick slime that is formed by snails. He is reprehensible and should be FIRED!
April 13th, 2005 at 10:37 pmCould someone please tell me what crime Tom Delay has committed other than people do not like him. The liberal media won’t stop their attack machine which is being driven by the democratic party. If only they would apply the same standards to members of their own party. Then they would see what Harry Reid and others have done. Check out the June 2003 LA Times article on Reid. Its a real eyeopener. Listen folks, neither party is entirely clean so we should just move on and try to solve some of the country’s more pressing problems. Thanks for listening.
April 18th, 2005 at 4:09 pmWhy are reporters from the NY Times and other papers going to jail for not telling a grand jury the source of the name of the CIA operative when the person who received directly from the White House, Republican Columnist Robert Novak has not even been before the pannel?
April 21st, 2005 at 11:43 pmTom Delay should do all of us a favor and resign
April 28th, 2005 at 1:52 pmNow!
Perhaps when DeLay gets his comeuppance he’ll retire to the Northern Mariana Islands, the only place left where people still like him. Maybe he can participate in the production of the bogus 9/11 gold coins this U.S. Commonwealth “authorized.” See saipansucks.com
May 11th, 2005 at 12:39 pmhere we go again,,its starting to sound like the same music with the same words bye,bye delay
May 11th, 2005 at 12:40 pmThis man has maliciously broken rules and funneled money to himself and his buddies for the sole purpose of personal gain and dominance of opposing factions. He is not a true americal nd he is no Christian. Please bring back respect and decency to our government by ridding it of this evil man.
May 11th, 2005 at 3:37 pmDocumented Delay Abuses
May 11th, 2005 at 6:15 pmThis websites are now carefully trying to documetn Delays abuses of power.
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May 11th, 2005 at 10:15 pmDeLay is a cancer on the institution of the U.S. Congress. He should not only be removed from his leadership position, but also from the privileged position of being a Member of Congress!
May 12th, 2005 at 2:10 amIt is time for this ethically challenged man to step down from his leadership post. The ethics panel should have a full investigation of all the allegations against him and decide if he should be ousted from the House. Did he know how his European junkets were paid for? How could he not have known? Did he participate in a financial shakedown scheme against native Americans with his lobbyists friends? Did he use his aides to improperly use his influence the selection of a House speaker in an American territory in order to benefit one of his corporate allies? Is there a pattern in abusing his post as majority leader and before that as majoprity whip to aid corporate friends and allies? Ray Cohn
May 12th, 2005 at 5:51 amIt is time for this ethically challenged man to step down from his leadership post. The ethics panel should have a full investigation of all the allegations against him and decide if he should be ousted from the House. Did he know how his European junkets were paid for? How could he not have known? Did he participate in a financial shakedown scheme against native Americans with his lobbyists friends? Did he use his aides to improperly use his influence the selection of a House speaker in an American territory in order to benefit one of his corporate allies? Is there a pattern in abusing his post as majority leader and before that as majoprity whip to aid corporate friends and allies? Ray Cohn
May 12th, 2005 at 5:51 amIt is time for this ethically challenged man to step down from his leadership post. The ethics panel should have a full investigation of all the allegations against him and decide if he should be ousted from the House. Did he know how his European junkets were paid for? How could he not have known? Did he participate in a financial shakedown scheme against native Americans with his lobbyists friends? Did he use his aides to improperly use his influence the selection of a House speaker in an American territory in order to benefit one of his corporate allies? Is there a pattern in abusing his post as majority leader and before that as majoprity whip to aid corporate friends and allies? Ray Cohn
May 12th, 2005 at 5:52 amIt is time for this ethically challenged man to step down from his leadership post. The ethics panel should have a full investigation of all the allegations against him and decide if he should be ousted from the House. Did he know how his European junkets were paid for? How could he not have known? Did he participate in a financial shakedown scheme against native Americans with his lobbyists friends? Did he use his aides to improperly use his influence the selection of a House speaker in an American territory in order to benefit one of his corporate allies? Is there a pattern in abusing his post as majority leader and before that as majoprity whip to aid corporate friends and allies? Ray Cohn
May 12th, 2005 at 5:52 amIt is time for this ethically challenged man to step down from his leadership post. The ethics panel should have a full investigation of all the allegations against him and decide if he should be ousted from the House. Did he know how his European junkets were paid for? How could he not have known? Did he participate in a financial shakedown scheme against native Americans with his lobbyists friends? Did he use his aides to improperly use his influence the selection of a House speaker in an American territory in order to benefit one of his corporate allies? Is there a pattern in abusing his post as majority leader and before that as majoprity whip to aid corporate friends and allies? Ray Cohn
May 12th, 2005 at 5:52 amI am very angry about his behavior regarding
May 15th, 2005 at 12:00 amthe above behavior.
It’s time for this man to resign,he should lose all benefits this office extends.
May 16th, 2005 at 11:22 amIf you think Delay is bad don’t forget the nuts that voted for him. I think we should go back to the orginal 48 states. Give Texas back to Mexico and Flordia to the cubans.
May 20th, 2005 at 11:25 pmWant something scary to think about. Tom Delay is only two heart beats from being president. If I was Bush and Cheney I won’t turn my back on him.
May 20th, 2005 at 11:30 pmNice post
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:53 amgreat read
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:54 amI agree that Tom Delay is Crook politition. He is the top dog of the Republicans to stole wealth form American by policy and by taken iligal money.
May 26th, 2005 at 4:34 pmTom Delay represents everything bad regarding politics, and he is the epitome of the politician who keeps well meaning and excellent people away from politics.
May 26th, 2005 at 4:38 pmResponse to Randy (#43):
You want to move on and deal with more pressing problems? I’d think that blatant abuse of power in our government would be at least in everyones top 10 most pressing problems list. This guy has been getting away with it for far too long, and when one can do it so openly and get away with it, others will certainly follow. He needs stopped now. I agree with you that neither party is clean. A member of either party who acts this way has no business in a position of power, so lets make a list and get them all out of office. What did DeLay do that was so bad? Well, here’s a short list:
Accepted trips from corporations and later helped kill legislation they opposed
Accepted trips from the lobbyist for a foreign government in violation of House rules
Paid family members more than $500,000 out of campaign contributions
Helped sweatshops in the Mariana Islands at the behest of a lobbyist
Tried to coerce a Congressman for a vote on Medicare
Allegedly used corporate money given to his PAC to finance Texas campaigns in violation of state law . (Actually, this was ruled on today, so no longer alleged.)
Used Homeland Security resources in a dispute with Democrats in Texas
Diverted funds from a children’s charity for lavish celebrations at the Republican convention
Stacked the House Ethics Committee with representatives who have contributed to his legal defense fund
Crippled the effectiveness of the House Ethics Committee by purging members who had rebuked him
Sought a rule change that would have no longer “required leaders to step aside temporarily if indicted”
He also stated once that the supreme court was “out of control”. I disagree, it’s Mr. DeLay that is out of control. Fire him.
May 26th, 2005 at 6:12 pmWe do not need unethical legislators, such as Tom Delay, in the leadership of this country. He shouled be kicked out of the House of Representatives.
May 26th, 2005 at 7:21 pmTom DeLay is one of the most unethical politicians on the White House—besides GWB and Mr. Cheney, of course!
May 26th, 2005 at 7:46 pmThis is but another indication of the driving need for power, control, and the obsession with themselves that manifests itself in greed and the complete disregard for the welfare of the majority of citizens of this nation by a group of people like Tom Delay who profess to have such such high moral values and yet take pride in their ability to manipulate the system toward their own immoral ends.
May 28th, 2005 at 10:10 amTom Delay is a Prime example of a pompous fraud of the Christian Right winged fools that are trying to inflict their Dogma on the rest of us! Adios Tom you are the real fool on the hill.
June 17th, 2005 at 12:16 amRep Ann Northup of KY took $37,000.00 for Tom Delay. She also voted against getting our tropps flack suits at the the Start the war.She need to be brought on ethics charges also.
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September 29th, 2005 at 10:15 amMike Forte—- (re: #43)
As soon as you hear a Republican say “move on” you know he’s trying to gloss over something or just plain avoid the issue. “Can’t we just move on now that the election is over?” “You lost, get over it.” “I think Cindy Sheehan should just move on. Soldiers are killed every day.”
It’s a coward’s way out of an argument. These people just have no case at all, and we have to stop responding to their fake arguments. I’ve given up trying to understand what makes people make such irrational, even insane statements. It’s a waste of time. In the proper forum, where it will make a difference, their idiotic justifications and pitiful excuses should be, and easily can be, shredded. I just think it’s beneath a reasonable person to engage in simian shit-tossing.
“DELAY PAID FOR GOLF TOURNAMENTS WITH CASH MEANT FOR KIDS: DeLay used a children’s charity, Celebrations for Children Inc., as cover for collecting soft money from anonymous interest groups, some of which was used for “dinners, a golf tournament, a rock concert, Broadway tickets and other fundraising events†at the Republican convention in New York.”
Nice. Now can we just move on?
September 29th, 2005 at 11:32 am[…] A comprehensive list of DeLay’s legal and ethical problems. A ThinkProgress classic. […]
September 29th, 2005 at 3:26 pm“move on” is another way of “gatekeeping”, or saying “There’s nothing to see here, citizen; move along!”
But partisan bickering is a great way of playing right into their hands, by making seem real the false notion that “the two parties” (sic) actually oppose one another.
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Clearly Congressman Roy Blunt sent letters to help his buddy Jack Abramoff and his efforts to prevent new Indian Reservations from going into Louisiana.
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Blunt, DeLay Share Abramoff Connections
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Rolling Stone: Dumb and Dumber
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[…] At the “War on Christians” conference yesterday, Texas Baptist minister Rick Scarborough said, “I believe the most damaging thing that Tom DeLay has done in his life is take his faith seriously into public office.†Mr. Scarborough, here are thirteen real candidates for the most damaging thing DeLay has done while serving in public office. […]
March 29th, 2006 at 9:11 am[…] CNN is reporting that everyone’s favorite politician Tom DeLay has pulled out of congressional race. […]
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:27 pmMy question on DeLay is will he receive a pension? If the answer is YES then we need to change the rules so “dead bugs” receive nothing if they retire/resign before they are found guilty!! Rick
April 24th, 2006 at 9:06 amDid you hear that in one of his “fair well” speeches he made the statement that “liberals ruin everything. Here is what this crooked republican lapdog meant:
“Your majesty King George, were it not for the liberals we:”
Would not have gotten bogged down in Iraq…
Could have completed our illegal telephone tapping program without the people knowing it…
Would not have converted a budget surplus into a record budget deficit…
Would not have increased the national debt to epic proportions, with you being the principal contributor…
Would not have had to leak information to protect your butt…
Would not have converted a most trusted nation into the most distrusted nation…
Would not have had to trample on the constitution with all those signing statements…
Could have completed all our illegal programs despite that “goddamned piece of paper”…
And, your majesty, well….there is more, but…..
Your majesty, most of this probably goes over your head, but maybe, just maybe, some of it gets past your crown and into your limited understanding, but count on me to stay in contact from my new cell as time goes on.
Your loyal, rabid right wing, subject, Tom
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