BREAKING: Tom DeLay Will Not Seek Reelection; Will Leave Congress ‘Within Months’
BREAKING: Tom DeLay Will Not Seek Reelection; Will Leave Congress ‘Within Months’
TIME Magazine reports:
Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress within months. Taking defiant swipes at “the left” and the press, he said he feels “liberated” and vowed to pursue an aggressive speaking and organizing campaign aimed at promoting foster care, Republican candidates and a closer connection between religion and government.
UPDATE: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spoke to Tom DeLay this evening and talked about his conversation on Scarborough Country –
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I was just on the phone Joe with U.S. Congressman Tom DeLay of Texas, fighting for reelection. He told me tonight that he’s going to withdraw from the race tomorrow. He’s not going to seek re-election. He told me the following, the reasons he gave. He thought although the polls showed him losing, going down, he thought he had a 50/50 chance of winning. He said the beating that he’s going to take between now and November would make it very hard for him to win. He thought he might be able to reverse it but it would be very had reverse the polling trend…He said he’s going to spend the rest of his career working with conservative organizations with whom he has great relationship and continue to be a leader in the conservative movement but outside Congress. That’s from the word from Tom DeLay himself, just on the phone with me.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Chris, you obviously saw the breaking new this weekend. Tony Rudy, his former of chief of staff going to jail for an unknown number of years. Others around him going to jail. Do you think this has to do with Republican politics or Tom DeLay spending his time and energy defending himself in lawsuits or in prosecutions?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I have no doubt, Joe, it’s a fair estimate. We can assume without a lot of editorial judgment, a lot of analysis, that the bad news has accumulated through both the Abramoff case and now this, and of course his problems with Ronnie Earle down in Texas itself.
UPDATE II: DeLay out by “late May or mid-June“:
The congressman, who informed party leaders of his decision late Monday, said his departure from office would depend on the congressional schedule, but he said he expected it would be in late May or mid-June.
DeLay said he planned to move to a house he has in Virginia near Washington, D.C. By doing so, he would no longer be eligible to run for Congress in Texas.
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Hopefully he will be speaking and organizing behind bars.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:38 pmDelay,Card…tired of bailing water,leaving the fast sinking ship.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:40 pmI heard on MSNBC that he’s also planning on immediately moving from Texas to Virginia.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:40 pmFYI…story also here…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12141276/
Of all the corrupt shitbags in Washington, this is the one I wanted most to get what he deserves. Man I hate this guy. Although I’m elated with this news, I’ll probably have an orgasm when he gets indicted (it’s inevitable). Not sure what I’ll do when he is convicted. Was that too much info?
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:40 pmSoon the buzz surrounding DeLay will approximate that of a depressed bee in a Tupperware container. Significance is a goal and a curse.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:41 pm“Foster care”, eh? You mean he wants a “mentor program” so he doesn’t become somebody’s little b*tch in a couple of months…
You think he saw the handwriting on the wa… — ummm, sorry, — indictment?
Cheers,
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:43 pmHe’ll still be an influential figure, and I am sure will continue to raise money for the Republicans. Perhaps he thinks he can work with lobbyists outside of congress, so it will be more difficult for him to get caught. Maybe he thinks the penalty to do what he’s been doing OUTSIDE of congress will be much less.
Either way.. I am sure he has future plans to be a bad guy in some other way.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:45 pmWell, somebody has got to:
“Ding dong the witch is dead, the witch is dead, the witch is dead. Which old witch? The wicked with is deeeeaaaaaaad!!!”
See, there is a God. This is proof.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:47 pmDeLay “vowed to pursue . . . a closer connection between religion and government.â€
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:47 pmThe simple and unlitigious truth is politics and religion are now as
permanent and fundamental as helmets and hat hair, except they go together like waxed fruit and French dressing.
“and a closer connection between religion and government”
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:49 pmthese guys just don’t get it…the Constitution, that is…
APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:54 pmI heard on MSNBC that he’s also planning on immediately moving from Texas to Virginia.
Comment by carsick — April 3, 2006 @ 10:40 pm
Is Texas outsourcing their prisoners to Virginia now?
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:54 pmPass it on. Sing it loud!
Goper’s Lament (Hard To Be A Republican)
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:55 pmThe decision came just three days after his former deputy chief of staff, Tony C. Rudy, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and corruption charges, telling federal prosecutors of a criminal enterprise being run out of DeLay’s leadership offices.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/03/AR2006040301787.html
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:56 pmAPRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – - Timing is everything in comedy. You don’t have it.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:56 pm1 down 434 to go!
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:57 pmBadmoodman – just kidding..
I LOVE the news. Now if we can get rid of the big guys: Rove, Cheney, Rummy
time will tell….
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:00 pmI have to admit that I haven’t been this relieved since Newt (another ethical giant) left in shame.
What I never understand about these fellow is their cling to “religious” (foster care/closer religion and politics) all when their goal is gaming the system (screwing people out of a voice or vote) and money influence.
I guess they must think that that “eye of the needle” parable is not really Biblical, because their whole game is money, influence, control.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:01 pmMr Delay. Your Heart is Laden with Guilt and it is Heavy with Sin.
I suggest that you do all you can to lighten that because it will not be the Republicans nor the Democrats that Judge you.
The Judge you will face Knows not of your “Politics” nor does he care about your Politics.
The Green Hand of Death Awaits your Weighing at the Scales Mr Delay.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:02 pmGood news, now tom will have time to go help Katface Harris with her election with his little hammer.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:08 pmPerhaps he shall come to you in your sleep, Mr Delay.
Know this O man, ALL of YE, when your Body Goes to Shaking and the Earth does not move, HE is upon you.
When you Wake up at night Mr Delay and you Find that YOU cannot Move, or Speak, you are but a motionless Head upon a Pillow, you will KNOW that what I speak.
Doubt me not.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:09 pmFor whatever the reason, this is the most honorable thing I have seen him do.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:16 pmMoving to Va .Hmmmmm! Be a lobbyist ,before or after jail !
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:19 pmDeLay will be as influential as Abramoff is after his conviction.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:24 pmHell is watching Chris Matthews interview Tom DeLay.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:26 pmHoly Matrimony, Batman! Will wonders never cease? I bet there are some queasy stomachs right now over at Fox “News”. Just…wow.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:26 pm—Hopefully he will be speaking and organizing behind bars.—
I really misinterpreted that at first, thinking of the man behind Winkie’s in Mulholland Drive (D’oh! You mean prison bars… ). And yet as profoundly as I detest DeLay for thinking it his right and privilege to dismantle truly representative government, I have to admit that For Truth has a point.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:30 pmIf there’s one thing I know, it is that one has to believe in God and have faith in Jesus Christ. One has to believe that there is a Hell. If there is no Hell, then there can be no Heaven.
Also, if I didn’t belive in Hell, then what I am saying is that Tom Delay for all his crimes against his own people is going to go to the same place as I do when I die. I cannot accept this. Tom Delay is a monster, a gold-digger, a psychopathic liar, and a Narcisist. Believing that one day Tom Delay will get his “just rewards” is the thing that keeps me going. It is the thing that helps me press on.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:32 pmCan the Law be far behind?
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:33 pmDelay/ Abramoff in ‘08!! Now more than ever!
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:35 pmGet a rope.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:38 pmScummy leftists!
A Texas prosecutor with a history of abuse of his office, Ronnie Earle, has indicted Tom DeLay. Earle is a sort of Jim Garrison without the integrity. Soon to follow: Giant MSM coverage, show trial, acquittal and exoneration, DeLay’s return to Majority Leader for another 20 years.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:42 pmHurrah!. I still hope he ends up in jail, but this is very good news. I hope Tom DeLay doesn’t move to Virginia. There are a sufficiency of greedy ba*tards here without him.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:42 pm“Even though I thought I could win, it was a little too risky,” DeLay said.
As opposed to like, you know, BREAKING THE LAW?
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:46 pmScrew DeLay he is dropping only because he probably has a pretty good idea that he will soon be bunking with the dukester. I have only this to say kick them while they fall and keep kicking them shile they are down. Make them pay for all the shit they have done to this country in the last six years. Delay should end up in Huntsville for what he did, but he will probably end up on house arrest with an ankle bracelet. The saddest thing is that every charge against him could be proven beyond a doubt, he could openly admit guilt and 30% of the population would still think he was railroaded, when the reality is that he is a first degree shitbag.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:46 pm35- Your right, they should all be kicked long and hard for the crimes they have done. Unfortunately, none of them will serve as much time as Martha. She had the misfortune of being a woman after all.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:52 pmFor Time’s coverage of the Delay announcement as well as the original Galveston County Daily News piece, see:
April 4th, 2006 at 12:10 am“The Delay/Abramoff Scandal Resource Center.”
if the country doesn’t fix things,
April 4th, 2006 at 12:14 amhe will go to jail and then become a lobbyist. He may strike up old relations with a criminal element that may be known to him.
if we fix things, he will go to jail, and he will do community service as restitution, forever.
Good riddence to Tom DeLay! He needs to go back to Texas forever and become a cockroach exterminator > only thing he was good at > lol.
April 4th, 2006 at 12:16 amThis is such great news….but,
this means that the GOP will have a better chance of holding that seat and the house and continuing their desecrating of the constitution.
I would have preferred the November headline “DELAY LOSES BIG TO DEDICATED REFORMER”
April 4th, 2006 at 12:20 amHuge Idiot…. you’re name is right on! Do a little bit more fact checking than some obsure little bullshit right-wing website. You’ll see that Earle has prosecuted all kinds of people, of both parties, beacause they’ve all deserved it.
What I am saying isn’t new either. It’s WELL known. And I beleive you should know it too, you close minded pathetic idiot.
Hey… you’re already on ThinkProgress…so check out THIS LINK: http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/28/truth-ronnie-earle/
April 4th, 2006 at 12:23 amWHAT!!!!
this shit-stained stinking neoconservative douchebag is LEEEAAVVVINNGGG!!!!
*or so reads his business card, anyway*
YAYAY
oh, and still fuck bush
April 4th, 2006 at 12:33 amwhat’s really disturbing is the moral and ethical bankruptcy of Delay’s constitents who voted for the criminal dirtbag in those primaries that were held recently.
disgusting. these people vote for an unethical immoral hateful loser and then wonder “why do they hate us?” look in the mirror, all you delay constituents who voted for him!! YOU are the reason why they hate us.
April 4th, 2006 at 12:40 amHe’s a Quitter, and like all bully’s once someone stands up to them and smacks them, the quit and run home to thier mommy’s…Turns out “the hammer” was just a cry baby and a quitter..
April 4th, 2006 at 12:43 amBET TWEETY WAS ALL BROKEN UP OVER THIS. PROBABLY FIGHTING BACK THE TEARS.
April 4th, 2006 at 12:57 amWith apologies to Cyra Brown-
Holy Soap-on-a rope, Batman! Does this mean that it won’t be long before Smiling Tom goes to the prison showers and holds on to his soap? ;)
April 4th, 2006 at 1:08 amTom D. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way over to K street.Ralph Reed,i’m sure,has a nice gig for ya.
April 4th, 2006 at 1:24 amI would make a reference to a nail in a coffin, but these are the walking dead we are talking about here.
April 4th, 2006 at 1:27 amNo coffins will do.
We will have cryogenically freeze them and send them into outer space or something.
Though this is a significant development, the battle is far from over.
And that’s not me saying it, that’s what the neocons are saying.
You don’t even wanna know what their contingency plans are.
Dead men tell no lies.
He feels ‘liberated’ eh?
Interesting how that word is completely unrelated to either ‘liberal’ or ‘liberty’ in his mind.
April 4th, 2006 at 1:52 amThe clouds are breaking. Here in Houston it feels like independence day!
April 4th, 2006 at 2:00 am13: Damn good song.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:01 amThe Makings Of A Lobbyist In Washington DC …. Hey Jud can anyone get a pic of Tom Delays home in Va.I have a hunch it won’t look like the little house in Texas and………….. Also need to find out how many Mexicans are working for him making sub-liveable wages……that’s the republican way ..own them work them to death ..force them into non-live-able spaces all packed together ……5.00 per hour is enough if 20 people are packed together in a sub-standard room….Remember the Islands slave labor well……the republicans imported it to the land of America……..
April 4th, 2006 at 7:09 amNah Nah Nah Nah – Nah Nah Nah Nah – Hey Hey Hey – Goodbye… to be sung to the tune of the Nah Nah Nah Nah – Nah Nah Nah Nah – Hey Hey Hey – Goodbye Song;)
April 4th, 2006 at 7:12 amStill just the beginning of the end of this ‘House of Cards” This is all way over due, so much damage has been done, I hope America can recover or we will all be in big trouble.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:25 amgood riddance
April 4th, 2006 at 7:28 amI just had to get RedState.org take on The Delay scene.. its the Katrina’s Fault… no joke ….
. Most of all, it ends the GOP concern that DeLay might lose his own seat, which in addition to redistricting has undergone demographic changes with the influx of former New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:45 amRedState.org, I have never visited that site, sounds like a communist name for a site though…..
April 4th, 2006 at 8:04 amfiredoglake and takleft has made a good point.. Can Tom Delay move to Va legally while he’s under indictment in Texas?
April 4th, 2006 at 8:05 amWhat would keep him from moving? Is there some Texas statute that would prevent him? To the extent he were to go on trial,he’ll attend or face the prospect of a bounty hunter coming to get him. Think that pursuit would make it onto CNN?
April 4th, 2006 at 8:16 amTwo down…
61,999,998 to go…
…the curse is working…
April 4th, 2006 at 8:20 amLOL, what’s Delay gonna do? Take the OJ SUV slow drive on daytime TV?????? Not enough hiding places for all the criminals in this administration. going to be fun watching them fight over them.
April 4th, 2006 at 8:23 amNow if we can get rid of the big guys: Rove, Cheney, Rummy
time will tell….
Comment by SusiQ #17
SusiQ,
Why ‘Oh Why do you forget the biggest crook of all…
…George W. Bush?
…he’s the worst of the lot!
April 4th, 2006 at 8:23 amHe’s moving to VIRGINIA??? Oh please, say it ain’t so — Ollie North AND the Hammer in my home state? I may have to move…and just when we were turning Virginia blue, county by county…
April 4th, 2006 at 8:40 amRedState.org, I have never visited that site, sounds like a communist name for a site though…..
Comment by JustJohn
Agreed. I’d imagine that the Donk states ought to be red as they’re already pink and that site would be a good name for this one since Progressive, Red and Communist are all names for the same failed but still murderous ideology.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:03 amIf there’s one thing I know, it is that one has to believe in God and have faith in Jesus Christ. One has to believe that there is a Hell. If there is no Hell, then there can be no Heaven.
Comment by Matthew J. Price
Nonsense. If you really believed all that you wouldn’t place your trust in the party of Treason, Abortion and Sodomy. Neither would you be so sure of Tom Delay’s final reckoning. If you weren’t a Walking Dead Loser you’d be horrified that anyone should find themselves damned for eternity. Just thought you ought to know.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:17 amRedstate.com is a cool site!
I’ve never visited it before today, but man it is kicks ass.
You can say any kind of crazy shit you want and people think that you’re serious.
All you have to do is mention Chappaquiddick, Sandy Burger, or Bill Clinton and these dumb-fucks eat it up.
It’s really funny in a scary scary sort of way.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:18 amIt’s a beautiful day in Texas!!!
April 4th, 2006 at 9:19 am#59
….face the prospect of a bounty hunter coming to get him
lol – Dog the Bounty Hunter vs Tom the Roach Killer! I’d tune in!!
April 4th, 2006 at 9:26 amHe’s a cancer only in remission.
Nobody should rest on their laurels until he’s in an orange jumpsuit.
I-Right-I, you’re such a joke. Everything you say is either wrong, irrelevant, or just plain stupid. Now, monkey, dance.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:26 amwhat’s really disturbing is the moral and ethical bankruptcy of Delay’s constitents who voted for the criminal dirtbag in those primaries that were held recently.
disgusting. these people vote for an unethical immoral hateful loser and then wonder “why do they hate us?†look in the mirror, all you delay constituents who voted for him!! YOU are the reason why they hate us.
Comment by banana
Is that a fact? Who is “they” and give me one good reason why I or any red blooded American should care what “they” think? By the way hearing the words “unethical, immoral and hateful” coming from a leftist fuckwit is amusing. Keep up the good work.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:28 amThanks IRI, we will keep up the good work. Hateful is bad for your blood pressure, again keep up the good work.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:44 am#70, “Keep up the good work.”
We will.
It’s refreshing to see the good guys win one. I feel no joy in Tom DeLay leaving even though I think he’s a horror of a human being. He represents a dangerous schism in America, a black streak in the conscience of the country.
We can only keep up the good fight. We’re the white hats here, and we know it. We have goodness and justice on our side, and those will always win out.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:44 amAs usual, IRI hurls idiotic insults without commenting on the topic of the thread. Rather than waste our time checking out redstate, why don’t you give us the facist take on the Delay situation.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:59 amCan Delay just up and move out of state when he is under indictment?
April 4th, 2006 at 10:11 amAs usual, IRI hurls idiotic insults without commenting on the topic of the thread. Rather than waste our time checking out redstate, why don’t you give us the facist take on the Delay situation.
Comment by Quadrajet
OK new guy here’s the scoop from iRi who just happens to live in Delay’s district. Big deal. I never liked the guy and his moving on means there might be a chance we can hire a conservative to fill his spot. DeLay was a big spending Republican like George.
DeLay helped George and the rest of the Third Way Socialists in the Republican party to spend my money like a drunken Democrat in a ghetto district. I’m glad he’s gone. If you idiots on the left weren’t so brain fried and oblivious to what’s really gong on in the Republican party you’d be sorry to see him go. The Republicans are the new Democrats. The Donks of course have destroyed themselves by morphing into the party of the fringe loon Filthy Left. Bottom line….we’re all screwed.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:21 amPack up the babies and grab the old ladies, everyone goes – there’s gonna be a party tonight.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:26 amActually, he will probably remain pretty influential in Congress, particularly as long as the Rethugs hold the power, and he resides in Virginia. But for now, I will enjoy the headlines.
Who here remembers when Irightie used to actually try to talk to us? Now, dude, you are just a shallow caricature of right wing angst and anger. You are, as they say in Texas, all hat, no cattle.
I don’t feel your pain, I’m too busy dancing with glee. I can’t wait for DeLay to die so I can have a kegger at his gravesite & we can all have one big piss on his grave party.
How’s that for liberal understanding irightie?
April 4th, 2006 at 10:32 amAgain I agree with one tiny little thing [R] had to print. “Were all screwed”….Nothing else . Untill we can turn around this mess the present bunch have created………Blessings
April 4th, 2006 at 10:33 amcan delay move to virginia and still be a texas rep.?
April 4th, 2006 at 10:36 amand, of course, a texas indictment?
The way men like Delay & Gingrich bow out is pretty lame. Gingrich gave up his leadership position but not his seat. Delay says he won’t run again, but doesn’t give up his seat. In the British Parliament, a member would resign in a show of humility. Nobody ever resigns here, because there’s no integrity. Delay will never change. He’ll probably be running the K Street Project from his prison cell, arranging payoffs and having lobbyists whacked via coded messages.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:43 amDeLay must be afraid to live in Texas or he smells money to steal in Virginia > lol.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:46 amIRI, while I don’t live in Delay’s district I do live in the area and immediately pegged you for the type of hateful, moronic fool that populates that tainted soil. And I am sorry to see him go, right now at least, as I was really looking forward to the November spanking Lampson was going to give him. Delay’s not a big spender as much as he is a big thief. So you think that maybe you can ‘hire’ a conservative to fill his spot eh? Interesting choice of words there.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:49 amIRI- I’m sure we will continue to do the good work of pissing off the RepubliKKKans and exposing their crimes and corruption. I’m sure in the long run you will come around to our view of reality and accept you as a citizen ofthe United States of America. But until then, SUCK IT UP!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
April 4th, 2006 at 11:00 amWho is “they†and give me one good reason why I or any red blooded American should care what “they†think?
Comment by I-RIGHT-I #70
You TREASONOUS, cowardly, Bushite/Cheney/DeadLay, Republiscum inbreds aren’t Americans…
…you’re cancerous lesions on liberty and freedom’s n*tsacks…
…the ones your mothers lick on daily…
…keep lying to yourself and stay put ’til we use that Patriot Act you love so dearly…
…to hunt your sorry TREASONOUS a*ses down…
…and make you accountable for your treachery, mass murder, corruption, and general lack of intelligence…
April 4th, 2006 at 1:04 pmI’m sure in the long run you will come around to our view of reality and accept you as a citizen ofthe United States of America. But until then, SUCK IT UP!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Comment by JIMBO
I’ve already been where you are, then I grew up. There’s nothing funny about that.
April 4th, 2006 at 2:21 pmIRI, while I don’t live in Delay’s district I do live in the area
[..blah seethe blah whine...]
And I am sorry to see him go, right now at least, as I was really looking forward to the November spanking Lampson was going to give him.
Comment by Quadrajet
Lampson couldn’t beat Wizzo the Clown let alone someone as popular as DeLay. The people in this district know dang well what a bunch of leftwingfucktards you Texas Donks are and they’ll have none of it, thanks anyway.
April 4th, 2006 at 2:31 pm…..DeLay to die so I can have a kegger at his gravesite & we can all have one big piss on his grave party.
How’s that for liberal understanding irightie?
Comment by kindness
I think it would be funny watching you all try to squat on the same 4 X 6 plot of ground. How’s that for conservative insight sweetness?
April 4th, 2006 at 2:41 pmThe ratbastartRepublifascistfucktards are nowhere near as “ethical” as you’d like to think they are “Right between the I’s”.
Don’t forget, they tried to alter their so-called “ethics” rules to allow an indicted congress member to retain their leadership position, then they got “bashed” for their sucking-up to corruption.
I’ll bet you think that an attorney that has indicted/prosecuted more Democrats than Republicans MUST be partisan when going after the corruption and calumny of ‘ol Rep. Tommy DeLay, right?
You and he probably get along real well, both being former/current cheerleaders for the entrenched corruption of the Republican party. I just don’t think you look as good in a cheerleaders skirt as you think you do.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:04 pmThe ratbastartRepublifascistfucktards are nowhere near as “ethical†as you’d like to think they are “Right between the I’sâ€.
Comment by Democrat Soldier
I’ve never made any claims to anyone’s high standards of ethics and morals yet I know a snake when I see one and the current Democratic leadership’s pandering to the Treason, Abortion and Sodomy crowd here in the USA and the back stabbing Euroweasels across the pond and the Muslim headchoppers in the Mid East is enough of an incentive for me to put up with some political corruption in the Republican party.
I’m no fan of DeLay, no blind cheerleader for Bush but I’m certainly not on board with the global elitists and Transnational Progressives and the freakish assortment of fringe loon groups that are attracted to the neo-liberal agenda for the USA.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:39 pmDeLay woke up yesterday morning and saw the handwriting on the wall.
This is not a resignation to aid the party, not on your life. It had come to pass that he and his staff were running a criminal enterprise out of his office. This is a RICO offense, and so DeLay saw the handwriting in big letters on the wall.
He said to himself,”self” you got millions of dollars in your campaign fund, and it can be used for your defense so you better use it for that, rather than lose the election.
You see, DeLay has been paying for weekly polls in his district using a local firm who report to him that the longtime close friends and allies are voting against him. He has a list of names a mile long of former friends, allies and associates who are deserting him like a sinking ship.
Now old Tom believes in religion so much that he started a “tithe system” in the pukes section of the house. Each puke HAD to give so much of his campaign contributions to the DeLay fund. Him pulling out and using the money for his criminal defense is going to piss off a lot of repuglicans.
His next job? He is moving to Virginia and will be in charge of, guess what? THE K STREET PROJECT.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:39 pmGlad he’s leaving, but why can’t he leave ‘yesterday?’
April 4th, 2006 at 8:30 pmHis next job? He is moving to Virginia and will be in charge of, guess what? THE K STREET PROJECT.
Comment by Paul in Mexico
Big deal even if it turns out to be true. Donks don’t have a leg in the next election anyway. You couldn’t buy a f’ing seat in congress even if you had the money…which you don’t. As I’ve tried to explain to your less intellectually endowed brethren more than once, the Republicans have taken over the liberal socialist work of empowering losers and paying for with my money for whatever touchy feely cause gets the most votes from the whining and seething mob. You losers have noting left but homosexuals, nasty men and women, a few animal and tree hugging dimwits and hard core Marxists. You’re finished as a party. Thanks for destroying out two party system. Now we have no choice.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:35 pm“Lampson couldn’t beat Wizzo the Clown let alone someone as popular as DeLay. The people in this district know dang well what a bunch of leftwingfucktards you Texas Donks are and they’ll have none of it, thanks anyway.”
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — April 4, 2006 @ 2:31 pm
IRI, you really are a moron’s moron aren’t you? Even Delay himself concedes that he was facing an up hill battle against Lampson – who by the way, has won many elections right here in SE Texas – and gives that as the reason for his withdrawal you fool.
April 5th, 2006 at 8:39 amIRI, you really are a moron’s moron aren’t you?
Comment by Quadrajet — April 5, 2006 @ 8:39 am
A moron or an annoying antagonist?
April 5th, 2006 at 7:32 pmWhy does Foster Care have to be a religious thing? My wife and I are foster parents, and devout, evangelical atheists. Why does the religious right feel the need to co-opt every good deed as being religious in its origin? don’t get me wrong, this country needs a lot more foster parents, and certainly religious people would be prime candidates (gotta earn those divine favors), but it just irritates me that there is a presumption of religiosity to everything like this.
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