BREAKING: A new indictment
By on Oct 3rd, 2005 at 6:05 pm
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Here’s the Wanted Poster.
Delay et al are all there.
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:07 pmClean money is next to godly money.
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:11 pmD’oh!
Love that poster, Jon.
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:11 pmLet’s see if this doesn’t knock Harriet off the headlines, though I’m not sure I want her off the way the conservatives are eating their young over it.
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:16 pmI just might have my faith in America restored; at least partially. Go get ‘em!!!
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:24 pmIt always felt like these Greedy ‘Ol Parasites (the GOP) were nothing but the mob… Money laundering. Wow.
May they all rot in hell.
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:26 pmOne charge? He fights it. He makes a martyr of himself. a second charge? evidence of some really bad shit coming from the man. before, i didnt believe we could put him away. now, i’m convinced he’s done.
they should just keep releasing a charge a day, for the next week. then, switch to Frist and the SEC. Then hop over to Rove and Libby. i think we’d have the month of October covered…
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:26 pmHow long until Delay says: “This is the second most ridiculous charge in the history of this country!”
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:28 pmThen adds, “I eat paint chips.”
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:29 pmOH! OH! Isn’t that too bad! I like Punchy’s idea of releasing a new charge every day until there is such a long string of them, he will have to pay his lawyers for the rest of his life.
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:32 pmCan he dismiss another charge as a trivial witchhunt as he did the first one.
#8 Bravo! Spit-take!
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:35 pmI don’t know what I like better–the charges that Delay is piling up (COME ON! money laundering???? do you KNOW how that plays in the sticks? To the general public, that’s what gansters and drug dealers do. what a GREAT effin’ charge! makes “conspiracy” look like jaywalking) or his excuses for them. I CANT WAIT to hear the bile spewing forth tonite, if his head doesn’t explode first…
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:37 pmI think DeLay was hoping Harriet Miers would knock HIM off the headlines. Oh well…
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:41 pmThis stupid, ignorant asshole does not even have sense enough to realize that someone, somewhere has just rolled over on him.
But remember your buddy Abramoff Tommy boy. A good witness is a dead witness.
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:57 pm#14–damn good point. 2 indictments, and Abramoff hasn’t even BEGUN to sing. wait until he faces 20 in the pokey, then decides to open his pie hole to reduce the charges. by then delay will have a whole resume of charges/convictions…
this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg
October 3rd, 2005 at 7:00 pmanother wonderful day in the neighborhood!!! i think #7 in on to a fantastic game plan. the house of cards is about to come tumbling down! gop=Government fOr Profit!
October 3rd, 2005 at 7:13 pmFIRE 1, FIRE 2…..”I see the ship sinking Capt.!…”OK, now FIRE at the bridge!”…shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm
October 3rd, 2005 at 7:27 pmI’m still waiting for the thatcher foot to drop on delay. Apparently the british government is looking into a bribery scandal involving delay accepting bribes for legislation as well!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16201986&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=keep-it-sealed-keep-it-secret–name_page.html
October 3rd, 2005 at 7:29 pmI – I – I – wish, I wish we lived in the days when you can challenge a person to a Dewell!
October 3rd, 2005 at 7:58 pmGet outta my face!
October 3rd, 2005 at 7:58 pmI’ll bet you can’t think of any indictment in American history as baseless as this one. Go ahead. Try and name one.
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:10 pmThe impeachment of Clinton comes to mind.
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:17 pmThere is some buzz over at Free Republic that DeLay’s attorneys are asking for dismissal of the conspiracy charge, on the grounds that the conspiracy law didn’t come into force until AFTER the 2002 elections. The speculation is that the laundering charge was desperately rammed through a second GJ as a fall-back.
News reports are spotty. Anyone here have the 411 on this?
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:28 pmAwesome!
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:31 pmCynical — have you stopped beating your wife yet?
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:50 pmBut wait — Atrios cites a Texas law school prof who believes the State’s existing penal codes for conspiracy pre-date and supersede the explicit changes to the election code…so the conspiracy charge may yet stick.
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:50 pm#23 — what happened was this: the original law DID apply in 2002. Basically, it held that a conspiracy charge applied to any felony. In 2003, the law was amended to say “any felony, including any election law felony”. Law experts in Texas say the original charge would have stuck, but Earle wanted to be extra careful.
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:52 pmThe dismissal was denied. This new indictment was handed down by a brand new GJ, just empaneled. FReep and the Goopers and Delay’s lawyer, can sit on it and spin all they like. Tommy boy is going to be somebody’s punk ass bitch.
October 3rd, 2005 at 9:31 pm#21 -
October 3rd, 2005 at 9:34 pmHow about the mass indictment of the founding fathers by a previous King George?
Great new’s, coulden’t happen to any one more worthy of being the next new babe in a cell block….Go Earl!….Blessings
October 3rd, 2005 at 9:42 pm27 & 28 — Much obliged. This thing is breaking rather quickly, and FR was all a-quiver that DeLay had a leg up on Earle. Just wanted to get the latest skinny.
I love it when their glee is unfounded.
October 3rd, 2005 at 9:49 pmGet your PlameGate and Delay scandal documents here.
October 3rd, 2005 at 10:54 pm#29, Nope. Nice try, but DeLay says his indictment is even more baseless than that!
:)
I was trying to think of the systematic racially-motivated indictments in the Old South, but again, DeLay insists every single criminal charge from that era had more basis than his indictment.
October 4th, 2005 at 12:55 amLife inprisonment?
October 4th, 2005 at 1:03 amYes!
Money laundering can have a heavy sentence, if it is a large sum. Considering the Median household income is $60-80 thousand, I would consider $190,000 a lot.
Let’s hope there are some regualr everyday people on that jury.
October 4th, 2005 at 1:07 amThe reaction at redstate.org is priceless. Should we taunt them the way they taunted us? Or just get on with cleaning up their mess?
October 4th, 2005 at 1:13 amI haven’t viseted a right wing sight, can we be the trolls there,? Ha Ha !….Blessings
October 4th, 2005 at 9:14 amactually they don’t like trolls very much. your posts are likely to be removed and you’re likely to be banned. very freedom loving over there. very open and transparent… NOT!
October 4th, 2005 at 10:05 amSome places are so insulated that they don’t even accept new guys. Say one wrong word, question Dear Leader in the wrong tone, no matter how lightly, and POW! Instant and permanent banning.
October 4th, 2005 at 10:40 amThe conspiracy charge sticks. DeLays attorneys are hacks.
All they know about defending a person is to try and make the prosecution look like it is incompetent when the opposit is true.
Me thinks, that in spite of his protestations, that DeLay is gone for a good long while.
October 4th, 2005 at 11:00 am#38
I’ve added my last initial to help, at least I hope it’s not the same as yours.
October 4th, 2005 at 11:39 amDelay didn’t just ask people for money, he FORCED them to replace their senior management with republicans, otherwise he wouldn’t give them influence. He was working to remake ALL of corporate america into his Reichwing Corporatist/Fascist support network – not just those companies who originally drove the show.
He’s been very successful at it to. That’s why so many companies rally around the failed economic policies of the country and ‘pretend’ that they work. It’s a sad state of affairs, because in the end these unpatriotic dupes put us at risk internationally because of their ineptitude and cronyism. China, Europe and Japan will not sit still while these dopes – who’s claim to fame is an opposable thumb – fumble through the destruction of american business similar to the one that’s occurred in american politics…
October 4th, 2005 at 12:46 pmThe whole strategy of a bull rush legally makes sense. One or two charges a day, every day, and one will stick. One will hit too close to home. All it takes is one that Delay reacts off-key to and he is finished. The Abramoff comment is good, too: Delay is done for, and can’t threaten people with his power anymore. If it comes down to ratting on Bugman or spending another fistful of years in jail EVERYBODY RATS.
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November 23rd, 2005 at 9:31 pm