Mark you calendar.
By on May 11th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Mark you calendar.
Criminally-indicted Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) writes House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL): “I have recently made the decision to pursue new opportunities to engage in the important cultural and political battles of our day from an arena outside of the U.S. House of Representatives. As a result, I am informing you of my intention to formally resign as the representative of the 22nd Congressional District of Texas to be effective at the close of business on June 9, 2006.”
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May 11th, 2006 at 5:45 pmGuess that means he will become a lobbyist and do some important $$$$ Cultural $$$ Battles $$$ for Big Business$$
May 11th, 2006 at 5:47 pmand hes letting the $$$CEOS know that his Shop$$ will be open for Business Soon$$$
That lobbyist job came through, eh?
May 11th, 2006 at 5:49 pmI have recently made the decision to pursue new opportunities to engage in the important cultural and political battles of our day from an arena outside of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Yeah, a jail cell in Texas.
As a result, I am informing you of my intention to formally resign as the representative of the 22nd Congressional District of Texas to be effective at the close of business on June 9, 2006.
Okay, TP, what’s going on in the House between now and June 9 that he feels he has to stick around for. Are they finally going to vote on the resolution to bring US labor laws to the Marianas Islands? Is there campaing finance law legislation that he needs to vote against? Is the House going to vote to take Ronnie Earle’s juridiction away from him so he can’t prosecute Delay?
He already publicly said he would resign around that time, but why that time. Why not sooner, like the day he decided to resign at all? You know he’s sticking around for a reason. What is that reason?
May 11th, 2006 at 5:50 pmOh, and Mr DeLay? God bless everyone — no exceptions. Shithead.
May 11th, 2006 at 5:51 pmHey, TP! Mark you calendar?
(Oooh, he card, read good.)
May 11th, 2006 at 5:53 pmDon’t let the door hit you in the ass, Hot-tub Tom, you lying vermin!!
May 11th, 2006 at 5:54 pmWHO is lobbying for the Salus Populi?
None.
Not a Damn One.
Welcome to Mafia governance, cloaked under the guise of “Conservatism”, Corruption, Sex scandals, Lies, Deaths, War.
The Bush Sopranos deny the Salus Populi.
Salus Populi Suprema Lex
‘The health of the people is the supreme law’
THE EVOLVING POLICE POWER:
May 11th, 2006 at 5:54 pmSOME OBSERVATIONS FOR A NEW CENTURY
Glenn H. Reynolds [FNa1], David B. Kopel [FNaa1]
© 2000 Hastings College of the Law; Glenn H. Reynolds, David B. Kopel
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The conventional wisdom about the scope of state police powers goes like this: in the early days of the Republic, state regulation was limited by the common law principle of sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas (you should use what is yours so as not to harm what is others’), implying that legitimate regulation existed only to prevent concrete harm to specified interests. Sometime around the (previous) turn of the century, the story continues, the principle changed from the old sic utere to the new principle of salus populi est suprema lex (the good of the public is the supreme law), suggesting that states could regulate as they chose so long as they claimed to be working to promote the public safety, welfare, or morality.
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And here comes the Kicker!
May 11th, 2006 at 5:56 pmSometime around the (previous) turn of the century, the story continues, the principle changed from the old sic utere to the new principle of salus populi est suprema lex (the good of the public is the supreme law), suggesting that states could regulate as they chose so long as they claimed to be working to promote the public safety, welfare, or morality.
Claim, yeh Claim this Mr Delay.
A size 12 boot for your ass.
The poster boy leaves the cancer in place
May 11th, 2006 at 5:57 pmBuh Bye LOSER!!!
May 11th, 2006 at 5:57 pmDon’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:00 pmDeLay should keep that address so he can send letters from jail just to keep in touch with his good friends.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:02 pmSuch a swell guy.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:04 pm6.6.6 would have been a more appropriate date for this wretched piece of the dung of satan to leave…
May 11th, 2006 at 6:09 pm“An arena outside of the House of Representatives” Is that what they call JAIL in your neck of the woods these days Tom?
May 11th, 2006 at 6:10 pmHe knows he is going up the river and he can’t get reelected.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:15 pmMaybe he’s just trying to give them enough time to throw a big party for him.
At the Watergate.
With lots of cigars, hookers and poker.
Then he can leave Washington with an even bigger shit-eating grin on his face.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:15 pmTom, better watch “OZ” on DVD. You, KKKarl, Steve A., and the rest of the Fourth Reich will have to do so to get research on what happens once up end up in a maximum security prison. Oh, and be careful when you suddenly start dropping the soap.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:22 pmHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
can convicted felons be lobbyists???
well, i guess we will find out…
tom, don’t let the door not hit you in the face a few times on the way out…
May 11th, 2006 at 6:23 pmI thought Tom did nothing wrong….
I thought this was part of a vast left wing conspiracy….
So why is he leaving if he did nothing wrong….
Im confused BUGMAN….
May 11th, 2006 at 6:25 pmwe all want to see that ’smile’ wiped off his vermon face…and we will.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:25 pmSomehow I don’t see him going back to spraying for termites.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:54 pmBetcha he’s got a sweet job as a lobbyist waiting for him.
#23 Yeah, Marie. A sweet job as a lobbyist for the pesticide industry, no doubt. Or, at least, the pesticide portion of the chemical industry.
May 11th, 2006 at 7:02 pmHe could actually do more damage to America from the “outside” — as he’ll be able to hide in the shadows easier…
I wonder if he really ever understood what it means to be a member of free society?
May 11th, 2006 at 7:25 pmguess we better check and see what votes he is sticking around for? probably one that would help him stay out of jail no?
May 11th, 2006 at 9:05 pmthis deviant doesn’t do anything without lining his pockets
“close of business”
May 11th, 2006 at 9:25 pmTom DeLay is sticking around till June 9th because Bush intends to attack Iran before then and needs his vote and help in the Congress! After that date Bush probably declares martial law and starts putting people who oppose him into detention camps! DeLay also gets a get-out-of-jail-free-card too!
May 11th, 2006 at 11:10 pmWhat’s that 6 down? Still a few hundred to go. The Republican Syndicate, a criminal enterprise masquerading as a political party.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:49 pmRethug candidates probably don’t want his assistance — but he could always help Rove hook up the the NSA phone lines to the voting machines.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:57 pmUnless they waive the one year waiting period for him, like they did for Billy Tauzin, in appreciation for all of his ‘hard work’ on the new medicare give-away to the ‘Big Pharm’s’, Tommy Boy will have to cool his jets. And I can’t imagine anyone wanting to hire a potential ‘Media Circus’, Not all publicity is good, after all. Any word yet on a trial date?
May 12th, 2006 at 12:35 amI feel so privileged. The “Hammer” is resigning on my birthday. You couldn’t ask for a better present…
May 12th, 2006 at 8:43 amTommy Boy, we harldy knew ya.
May 12th, 2006 at 8:43 amRemember, the reason you’re going to jail
is Clinton’s fault. Keep thinking that.
You’ll need something to hold onto other
than Bubba in that cell.
Can’t he stay on (and stay visible) at least until November?
He does SO much for the identity of his Party…
May 12th, 2006 at 12:26 pm