DeLay calls Scalia’s rejection of his case “stupid.”
By on Aug 10th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
DeLay calls Scalia’s rejection of his case “stupid.”
Upset that Justice Scalia rejected his appeal to get off the Texas ballot, Tom DeLay told the National Review’s Byron York: “You can always count on the judiciary to make stupid rulings. … Not only stupid, but dangerous.”
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Are you kidding me ?
August 10th, 2006 at 12:02 pmDeLay cannot stand being relegated to the dust bin. Adieu, mon petit.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:03 pmScalia refused to help DeLay? Wow he must be really frightened that Lieberman got defeated > lol.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:03 pmStupid and dangerous? Delay is projecting, as usual.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:04 pmDelay’s right! Why the hell do we even need a judiciary anyway? After all, eveyone thought we needed a legislature, until Dubya illustrated how redundant they were…
(ow….tring to think like neocons makes my head hurt…)
August 10th, 2006 at 12:04 pmThem darn liberal activist judges…
August 10th, 2006 at 12:04 pmThat liberal Scalia, he will pay for this.
-Lazy Eye Tom Delay
August 10th, 2006 at 12:06 pmSure, The Hammer called Scalia “stupid.” But then again, Delay compares himself to Jesus.
Here is a side-by-side comparison of the Hammer and the Carpenter.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:08 pmlike I said – their hero Reagan would be lambasted too – if he dare speak truth – just like a lot of his people already have.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:09 pm“You can always count on the judiciary to make stupid rulings. … Not only stupid, but dangerous.†Well, duh! Think about the stupid and dangerous decision they made in 2001 when they selected Pres. Bush!
“Given the choice between facing the voters and facing the courts, DeLay chose the courts and lost handily,” said Bill Burton, spokesman for the national Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
All right! The Democrats are starting to point out the right things to show how pathetic Re. DeLay truly is!
August 10th, 2006 at 12:10 pmGotta love it when the conservative judges that you lobby so hard to get appointed, byte you in the ass.
I can’t believe Scalia bit the hand that feeds him.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:12 pm“Stupid and dangerous.” Seems to fit the Bush v. Gore decision perfectly.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:12 pmTom’s forgotten that he’s just a regular “Joe” regardless of any elected office he once held.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:13 pmUm… dangerous how? Did Delay just threaten a Supreme Court justice…?
August 10th, 2006 at 12:14 pmPost 11 > Scalia knows that DeLay has NO power in DC any longer, so he NO longer has to grovel to Tom!
August 10th, 2006 at 12:15 pmLOL. I called it! I knew Delay wouldn’t accept that ruling without taking a pot shot at the Judiciary. Even Scalia can be Swiftboated by these nutbags. Good Riddance.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:22 pmWell,
Regardless of how much I don’t like to see a one sided race, Delay has to realize he did this himself. Scalia acted within the law. The only reason Delay wants to be removed is because he screwed up. He (Delay) got himself stuck in this legal position and screwed over the republicans from having a canidate to vote for. Trying to shift the blame to Scalia or the Democratic opponent is smoke and mirrors, he needs to take a good look at they he wants to be removed from the ballot in the first place (or why he is on it).
August 10th, 2006 at 12:27 pmWow… I never thought the day would come when I would agree with DeLay on anything, but here it is. He nailed the problem with the judiciary right on the head.
Anyone remember a little ruling called Bush v. Gore?
August 10th, 2006 at 12:33 pmQuick! Somebody call the WHAAAAAmbulance! Not too smart, Tommy Boy. Wouldn’t Scalia be the last hope of overturning your conviction, if you are convicted? Oh well.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:33 pm#17- Tundra- Hey, stranger! Welcome back!
August 10th, 2006 at 12:35 pmI son’t blame him for being upset. He’s probably wondering if the inmates will be drawing straws to see who gets first crack at his ass.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:39 pmSure, that’s what we want, politicians with extreme contempt for our process of Government.
Good riddance, LOSER BOY TOM.
August 10th, 2006 at 12:44 pmcry baby. “YEAH WELL. YOURE JUST A STUPID DUMB HEAD ANYWAYS.”
August 10th, 2006 at 12:46 pmHeya Cyra, yeah work has finally let up a little. Plus I hate someone who screws up, tries to sneak away out (Going on the ballot for funds) then tries to pass the blame (heheh)
August 10th, 2006 at 12:56 pmSure, The Hammer called Scalia “stupid.†But then again, Delay compares himself to Jesus.
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Oh,the ego on the right.
How did Gingrich characterize himself?
August 10th, 2006 at 12:59 pmA shaper of civilization?
It gets ugly when the sharks start turning on each other.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:36 pmFor those of you who don’t know exactly who George Soros is or how he acquired his wealth, which supports this website, here it is:
Recent reports that mega-speculator George Soros is putting millions of dollars into funding think-tanks for the Democratic Party (Center for American Progress, and America Coming Together are two notable recipients), in a not-so-veiled effort to buy up the party, should raise the question: Just how does George Soros make his money? Years of investigation by LaRouche’s associates have answered that question in grisly detail: Soros’s money comes from impoverishment of the poor countries against whose currencies he speculates, and from deadly mind-destroying, terrorism-funding drugs.
We provide below a brief dossier on the low-lights of Soros’s history of theft and drug-promotion.* If, after reading this, you still want to take Soros’s money, at least have the decency to put the truth on your website: “I support drug-pushing. I’m pushing cocaine.”
SOROS THE SPECULATOR:
Hungarian-born George Soros has been involved in financial speculation since the late 1960s, at which time he established the Quantum Fund, N.V., which manages the money of leading British and Swiss financiers, including the British Royal Household. The Quantum Fund is a private investment body called a hedge fund, which is headquartered in one of the leading centers of money-laundering internationally, the Netherland Antilles.
1990: With the opening of the East Bloc, Soros moves into Poland and Russia, with “advice” for devastating economic “shock therapy,” to be administered by his associate, economist Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs’ major claim to fame was his “rescue” of the Bolivian economy, by shutting down industry, and building up the cocaine trade.
1992: In this year, Soros’s speculation made big news, as he pulled off major attacks on the currencies of Great Britain and Italy, after which he bragged about earning more than $1 billion by hurting the currencies of these nations.
1993: U.S. Congressman Henry Gonzalez (D-Texas) called for an investigation of Soros’s manipulation of foreign exchange markets, including the possibility that the same measures used against Great Britain would be used against the United States.
1995: The manager of Soros’s Management Fund, through which he controls the Quantum Fund, took out an ad in the U.S. press, which urged the Congress (then controlled by Newt Gingrich), to proceed with its budget cuts, despite the possibility of a budget impasse (train wreck), because such austerity was absolutely required for the financial markets.
1995: The Italian courts, in response to a legal brief by associates of LaRouche in Italy, launched an investigation of Soros’s role in the speculative attack on the lira in 1992. The suit was dismissed in 1999.
1997: Soros’s hedge funds launch a speculative attack against the Thai baht, in a move widely credited with triggering the great Asian financial crisis of 1997, which destroyed the economies of Indonesia, and many other nations.
SOROS THE DRUG PUSHER
1992-1994: Soros creates the Open Society Institute, and through that, both the Drug Policy Foundation and the Lindesmith Center, funneling more than $15 million for their activities, which focus heavily on changing drug laws, toward legalization.
1996: Ballot initiatives in favor of “medical marijuana” in California and Arizona, funded lavishly by Soros’s front groups, are passed. These were the front end of a campaign that encompassed up to 25 states.
1997: Soros’s Drug Policy Foundation pours money into a campaign to legalize euthanasia in Australia.
Meanwhile, in Ibero-America, Soros becomes a leading finacier of the drive to legalize cocaine. He bankrolls a meeting on Oct. 8-9, 1997 in the Colombian city of Medellin, for the purpose of pushing drug legalization, at the same time that Human Rights Watch/Americas, another major beneficiary of his funds, attacked the national forces deployed against the drug cartels as “human rights violators.” It should be noted that the pro-drug guerrillas in Colombia are known to be bloody-thirsty kidnappers, and murderers, who terrorize the nation.
In the United States, Soros worked with the pro-drug Mayor of Baltimore Kurt Schmoke, to promote “progressive” drug policies, including needle-exchange programs. Soros “donated” $25 million to spreading illegal drugs in the city.
1998: Another Soros-related group, the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers, begins to carry out an armed revolt in Bolivia, under the banner “Coca or Death.” The Council was established by a European group called Coca 95, whose chief financier was Soros, and whose directors call for free trade in every narcotic on the face of the earth: cocaine, heroin, marijuana and synthetics.
Soros’s Lindesmith Center in June of this year, issues an Open Letter to Kofi Annan calling for a “truly open” dialogue on illegal drugs — claiming that clamping down on them is worse than drug abuse itself, and demanding that legalization be put on the table.
2000: Soros moves both through Human Rights Watch, and direct funding of the Toledo Presidential campaign, to topple the successful anti-drug government of Alberto Fujimori in Peru. EIR forecasts that the new Soros-backed government will move to put anti-drug fighters in prison, and bring back the murderous Sendero Luminoso — which it has done.
2001: In June, the Wall Street Journal gives major coverage to the decision by Soros, along with billionaires Peter Lewis and John Sperling, to kick in at least $10 million for the 2002 elections, where they will target Florida, Ohio, and Michigan for decriminalization referenda.
Soros also funds a drive for decriminalization of marijuana in Canada.
2002: Soros funded a referendum on the Nevada ballot, which called for the legalization of marijuana use, and would {mandate} that the state begin growing and retail distribution of the drug to anyone over 21 years of age. The effort was run by a Washington, D.C.-based group, the Marijuana Policy Project, which receives direct funding from Soros, through the Drug Policy Foundation, which has received more than $15 million from Soros in recent years. The Drug Policy Foundation recently merged with the Lindesmith Center, a project of Soros’s Open Society Institute tax-exempt foundation. The new, unified entity, the Drug Policy Alliance, is run by Soros employee Dr. Ethan Nadelman. Soros has poured at least $25 million into various dope legalization schemes over the past five years, and has vowed to substantially increase his bankrolling of the dope lobby efforts.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:56 pmThe Marijuana Policy Project was launched by a former official of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Legislation (NORML), the oldest of the drug legalization fronts now under the Soros umbrella.
Hey there, “Truth about Think Progress“, you’re still at it. Talking about how George Soros is badly needed to counteract the extreme right-wing radicals by injecting much needed funds into Progressive causes to help counteract the lies from special-interest monies that go to the right-wing.
Good going there, buddy! Tell us more about how George Soros is helping counteract the radical right and their failed policies!
August 10th, 2006 at 2:02 pmWho will make a more graceful exit from the national stage- Delay or Lieberman?
August 10th, 2006 at 2:04 pm#37 – There you go again, telling more lies and spreading calumny and mendacity like it’s a good thing. Poor unfortunate soul.
“Hastert used the Fox appearance to blurt out a bizarre and baseless accusation about billionaire George Soros, a Democratic Party financier and donor to anti-Bush 527s.”
“Soros spokesman Michael Vachon says there’s been a “concerted effort to smear George Soros since he became an administration critic” and calls the Hastert comments the “usual conservative message-machine M.O.: Throw something out there and see if it sticks.”"
“Hastert states in a Sept. 1 letter to Soros that he never referred to drug cartels on Fox News Sunday, that Chris Wallace did. The “drug groups” Hastert claims to have had in mind were the “Drug Policy Foundation, The Open Society, The Lendesmith [sic] Center, the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers, and several ballot initiatives across the country to decriminalize illegal drug use.” On this score, Hastert’s letter is completely disingenuous. These groups are beneficiaries of Soros wealth: He’s given them money. In the program transcript, Hastert is clearly asking about the source of Soros’ money for his political and social campaigns, and then he asks the leading question, is it from “overseas or from drug groups”?
Where did Hastert get the notion that Soros might be getting money from drug cartels? A good guess would be the organization headed by political fantasist, convicted felon, and perpetual presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. This campaign literature from the “LaRouche in 2004″ Web site, dated Oct. 29, 2003, makes the drug charge directly:
Years of investigation by LaRouche’s associates have answered that question in grisly detail: Soros’s money comes from impoverishment of the poor countries against whose currencies he speculates, and from deadly mind-destroying, terrorism-funding drugs.
The LaRouchie slander of Soros dates back to the early ’90s. Michael Lewis recorded an anti-Soros protest by LaRouche followers in a Jan. 10, 1994, profile in the New Republic. Since then, the drug charge has been a LaRouche literature mainstay.”
http://slate.com/id/2106077/
Sorry, sad little boy, you don’t get away with your lies here.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:13 pmThis just goes to show that the Right’s definition of an “activist judge” is in fact any judge who issues a ruling they don’t like.
Can’t wait for the next Justice Sunday!
August 10th, 2006 at 2:33 pmYou’re Stupid…
August 10th, 2006 at 3:06 pmI know you are, but what am I?…
#26 — I’m still trying to fathom the connection between the subject of this thread and your response to it — by posting the article about Soros. However, thanks for posting this most informative article about Soros. He sounds like my kind of person — a true humanitarian (or as some fundies might say: a true follower of Christ’s words and deeds).
August 10th, 2006 at 3:27 pmThe Larouche folks make me laugh. Hey, Larouchie, shouldn’t you be off manning a card table somewhere?
August 10th, 2006 at 3:42 pmI didn’t know G. Soros was helping TP, thats kick ass.
August 10th, 2006 at 7:04 pmI bet Tommie’s bottom lip was sticking our when he said the word “stupid.”
Poor Tom DeLay, no longer the prettiest girl at the party.
August 10th, 2006 at 8:31 pmHeres hoping ole Delay gets an ass load of time here in Texas, appeals it all the way to the Supreme Court and gets another one of their stupid rulings. Maybe he’ll file for certiorari and Scalia will just deny him without a written order. Thats what usually happens to the riff raff.
August 10th, 2006 at 9:56 pmScalia thinks your stupid too Tom.
August 11th, 2006 at 1:43 pm