Tom DeLay Denies Ethical Lapse in Trips (now we KNOW he's in trouble!)

[jefferson_dem]

:nuke: :nuke:

Tom DeLay Denies Ethical Lapse in Trips

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay strongly denied wrongdoing Tuesday in connection with two overseas trips financed by outside organizations, and said he is anxious to discuss the facts with leaders of the House ethics committee.


"I feel confident I've done nothing wrong," the Texas Republican said as fellow lawmakers and aides sought to assess the impact of fresh controversy on the party in general.


The Texas Republican laid the blame for the recent controversy at the feet of congressional Democrats and what he charged was inaccurate newspaper reporting.


He said there was nothing wrong with either of the two trips. One involved going to South Korea (news - web sites) in 2001 — a trip bankrolled by the Korea-U.S. Exchange Council.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=1&u=/ap/20050315/ap_on_go_co/delay_ethics

[Catherine Vincent]

1. As President Clinton recuperates from his surgery last week,

I am sure he is reading the troubles of Tom Delay and laughing his ass off! hahahahahaha!!!!

[Auntie Bush]

13. Quch! Ouch! Ouch! That must hurt right after surgery. Poor Bill.

Puts new meaning to the saying "he laughed till he cried!"

[seemslikeadream]

2. But there doesn't seem to be an ethics committee.

:shrug:

[dweller]

4. Delay has to go

http://www.pcactionfund.org/withoutdelay/facts/

read on, sign up.

dp

[Frances]

7. That's right

The Republicans control the House and so they rewrote the rules. Now you have to have a majority on the ethics committee to look into ethics violations. It used to be you only needed 5 votes.

There are 5 Repubs and 5 Demos on the committee. The Repub House leadership took the more moderate Repub members off the committee. 2 of the 5 Repubs on the committee have received campaign donations from DeLay. The Repub House leadership "fixed" the committee to protect DeLay.

I hope this case illustrates the need to have a Dem majority in the House.

If the Dems had a majority, Tom DeLay could not keep doing illegal things with no consequence.

[rodeodance]

8. there are no rules at this time in the Ethics committee. There was an

an article on DU yesterday about this.

[jus_the_facts]

3. he's just a *sacrifice*...they always throw one of their own....

...to the *wolves* from time to time...just to make 'em *seem* legit. :eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. So we may actually see Delay being frog marched

out of Congress in Cuffs?

When it happens I'll believe it.

[rodeodance]

10. not that would indeed be an image!!-thanks

[TheModernTerrorist]

6. ROUNDUP!

We need to round them ALL up, all at once... turn it from a media frenzy into a media BLITZKRIEG (or "Shock and Awe" if you prefer). Get DeLay, Kenny-boy, Rummy, Martha (just for fun), Osama (again, just for fun) and air it on TV. Turn it into a reality show called "The Big House" or something. THEN maybe I'll start liking reality television, you know, when it actually IS reality.

[Frances]

9. Martha has already been to prison

mainly because she made contributions to Dems.

Kenny Boy is still free.

[TheModernTerrorist]

11. I know

I'm just saying it would be fun to grab Martha again... ;-) Though I could care less about her, but I AM really concerned about Ken Lay, and how he's trying to "play the victim" now...
what an asshat.

[Frances]

12. I agree about Kenny Boy

But I don't think it would be fun to grab Martha again. I think the Repubs were sending a message to rich people not to contribute to the Dems.

[TheModernTerrorist]

23. it's just their way

of showing the "sheeple" that they're "doing their job"... too bad they couldn't send out one of their own. Or 2, or, well, ALL of them... Hell, I'd be willing to throw in a few Dems too. Just to do a little "house cleaning" ;-)

[anarchy1999]

15. Granny D says it best. We need brooms and lots of people.

We need a spring cleaning action with thousands willing to pitch in and help. Until then, we get nothing, but a bankruptcy bill and privatization of "Social Security". What a joke on US.

on edit:

I forgot, We do get more:

More wars, courtesy of the Iran/Contra criminals, BFEE and the PNAC "crazies".

[Sanity Claws]

20. Leave Martha alone!!

Martha is not in the same league as the rogues you mentioned. If you need a woman to make it interesting, get Condi Rice

[TheModernTerrorist]

22. but Martha has that star appeal

that Condi can only DREAM of.... ;-)

[Sanity Claws]

26. Put Condi in those black boots

She caused quite a stir in that outfit. Dress her up (or down) properly and you could create a star.

[anarchy1999]

14. Deny away Delay, Deny, Deny, Deny, Delay!

Tom you really do need to go, retire back to your "bug business", Tom, please. Do Texas and the rest of the nation a favor, save us the trouble, the time and our tax dollars.

[rodeodance]

16. yes, let big business have him (all in the same pot of stew)

[AndyTiedye]

17. Nothing Can Touch Delay, Of Course, He Owns the Ethics Committee...

and his party owns the entire Government, the news media, the churches, and the voting machinez.

Still, it must be getting hard for people to ignore the stench of corruption.



As Tom Delay awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly stay in place and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.

What has happened to me? he thought. It was no dream. His room, a regular human bedroom, only rather too small, lay quiet within its four familiar walls....

[Mithras61]

18. Nice twist on the quote from Kafka...

I always thought Metamorphosis was creepy, but this is just too funny! Thanks!

[myrna minx]

19. Damn Andy, that is TOO funny.

Snarf-Metamorphosis meets the bugman. Hahaha!

[Justitia]

21. update: Delay Also Denies Water is Wet -eom

[DoYouEverWonder]

24. Remember when DeLay asked Clinton

to do the honorable thing and resign? Maybe it's time for DeLay to take his own advice?

[bobthedrummer]

25. He acts like a pathological case-he's crooked as the day is long. n/t

[truthpusher]

27. DeLay Blames Partisanship for Uproar (Attacks the Washington Post)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/15/national/w155010S69.DTL

DeLay Blames Partisanship for Uproar
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By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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A defiant House Majority Leader Tom DeLay blamed partisanship and innuendo Tuesday for the uproar surrounding his overseas travel, but Republicans reported stirrings of concern over his political durability.

(snip)

DeLay laid some of the brouhaha over the travel at the feet of House Democrats, whom he said are seeking to "tear down the House and burn it down in order to gain power."

But in unusually blunt criticism, he attacked The Washington Post for its coverage of his trips. In the case of one story about the England trip, he accused the paper of a "zeal to leave readers with the false impression that I did something that I did not do."

The Post did not return two calls seeking comment.

complete story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/15/national/w155010S69.DTL

[mbperrin]

28. Tom, STFU already!

and.........drop off the earth, please.

[msongs]

29. these are GOOD signs that delay is getting concerned, & lashing out...

he is feeling the proverbial heat.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/liberaltshirts.htm

[quaoar]

30. Hey Tom

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

[stepnw1f]

31. Boo Hoo Hoo Assh*le (nt)

[Career Prole]

32. Sure, Bugman...if your tree had fallen

and there was no one to hear it, you wouldn't be a foul, cruddy little piece o' shit criminal. May I quote you on that, sir?

[UpInArms]

33. hey "Mr. I Am the Federal Government"

cigar smoking piece of something my cat puked up - get over yourself and go quietly to your jail cell. I'm certain you'll like your new best friends a lot.

[BanzaiBonnie]

34. He's on the run

Let's keep him that way. It means he knows he's losing his hand.

[BOSSHOG]

35. Isn't it great to hear a fucking coward whine about partisanship?

A "man", out of the same mold as limbaugh and hannity and drudge and bush (he of lack of honorable service) growing ever so closer to the pot of truth. As he comes closer to justice, the howls will get louder. Let us all light a candle for a small cell and a large cell mate for little tommy.

[Bob3]

36. Hey Tom - live by the sword die by the sword ring any bells?

That the most heartless evil partisan bastard in the House is complaining about partisanship would be laughable if the press wasn't listening politely to him rather than hooting and making other rude noises.

Yeesh.

[DoYouEverWonder]

37. Hey Tommy

take this quote and shove it up your ass:


"We're talking about something that's very dangerous, when the American people have lost the trust and respect of the president of the United States," DeLay said. "If he's lied on inhaling, on his draft record, on Gennifer Flowers, on Kathleen Willey, on Paula Jones, on other things, then how can he stand before the American people and the American people trust what he has to say."

[Laurab]

38. Oh it's that left wing media again

Spreading lies about those men of God in the rethug party. For once a little truth gets out, and it's the democrats fault, and the WP's fault? No, sorry, Tom - I think it's YOUR fault. Sooner or later, the truth does win out. Take your "unusually blunt criticism" and look in the mirror.

[driver8]

39. Do any of these m-fers ever take responsibility for their own actions?

It is unbelievable to me how they always manage to push the blame on to someone else. They are like a bunch of little children.

I thought Dick Cheney was the biggest asshole in the world...this guy is a close second.

[VegasWolf]

40. Congrats! Once again the Washington Post steps up to the plate to

help take down a corrupt Republican administration.

[Beacho]

41. I keep thinking of that great Motown song

"no where to run,

No where to hide...."


They're coming for ya Tommy boy, can you hear them?

[gizmo1979]

42. B.S

The DA in Austin has indicted 15 politicians,12 dems,3 reps.No partisan crap here just upholding the law!

[AlinPA]

43. The people in Texas will vote him into his seat again in 2006. His

district is republican. He can say and do as he damn well chooses. A dirty shame that America has dropped this low to have filth like that in congress.

[brentspeak]

45. Who are the people of his district?

Are they country-club Republicans, trailer-park Republicans, lower-middle-class FOX News-watching Republicans?

Whatever they are, they sure are DUMB Republicans to keep voting this clown back into office every two years.

[Redstone]

44. He's cracking. I can just hear him raving about the strawberries,

real soon. While rolling some ball-bearings in his hand.

Redstone

[VegasWolf]

46. Hey DeLay, there's only one direction your finger should be pointing and

that is right back at you, you Republican piece of slime's shit.

[SujiwanKenobee]

47. Who coined this phrase?

"Partisan politics of personal destruction"???
I googled it and it seems to be mostly used by Repubs.

[rehema]

48. DeLay is always whining.. Tell him to get with Gannon to make

him feel better.

[EST]

49. Lemme see, now-

A corrupt, criminal (republican) politician who has just been outed (again) claims it is a result of partisanship. Translation: the dems are pointing out the lies and corruption and the pigs are covering for him-does he really mean to say that the dems stand for truth and honesty and the pigs do not?
It appears to me that has to be the logical conclusion since it is only partisanship that has the thieves on the run. He has not thought this through.