LAT: DeLay Fires Up GOP Troops for Counterattack

[Helga Scow Stern]

DeLay Fires Up GOP Troops for Counterattack
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The House majority leader, faced with new ethics criticism, sees the assaults as an attempt to derail the party's agenda and control of Congress.

By Mary Curtius
Times Staff Writer

April 3 2005

WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has launched a characteristically defiant response to attacks on his ethics and leadership, even as the controversy threatens to compete with the Republican legislative agenda when Congress returns this week from spring recess.

As criticism of the 57-year-old Texan intensified last week with a blast from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board and the unveiling of an anti-DeLay television ad campaign by nonprofit groups, he began a counterattack designed to shore up his backing in the Republican House caucus and among social conservatives.

In a meeting with the heads of several social conservative organizations, DeLay sought support in a fight that he said was aimed at ending the GOP majority in Congress and thwarting the social conservative movement. Some responded immediately.

"The only fire behind all that smoke generated by the leftist attacks is their burning hatred of a good man," wrote Morton C. Blackwell, a prominent conservative, in a posting on the American Conservative Union's website. "You and I must do all we can to make sure any politician who hopes to have conservative support … had better be in the forefront as we attack those who attack Tom DeLay."

More:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-delay3apr03,0,3783051.story

[NVMojo]

1. ...and most of these unethical freaks, like DeLay, are Christians ..

yeah, right!!!

[saigon68]

3. The same "Christians" who are out to KILL Michael Schiavo

Poor Michael has a contract out on his head.

Put there by these Hateful Right-Wing Fundy Nut-Jobs.

[whathappened]

2. all this i'm so sure

of everything i'm doing is just a clue to where we are heading in this country , why are these people so sure of there reelection , do they no something we don't already no , is the fix all ready in on the next election , why esle wold thet be stepping all over everything that has gotten them elected in the first place , they feel no need to veiw our needs in this country anymore , they are acting like they are the only one's left in this coutry and they have full say as to what is going to happen ,

[LynnTheDem]

4. "LEFTIST attacks"? "a blast from the conservative Wall Street Journal"

is a LEFTIST attack???

A MAJORITY of REPUBLICANS disapproving of Toxic Tom are LEFTISTS???

Don't THINK so.

[rodeodance]

6. and because of DeLay Congress now has an ineffective Ethics Comm.

.....In March, the committee's Democrats announced that they would not participate in its activities until the House repealed new rules written by the Republican leadership that the Democrats said made it virtually impossible to initiate and carry out investigations.

The Republicans responded that they had no intention of repealing rules. Democrats are threatening to use a parliamentary procedure to bring a bill to the floor that would force a revote on the rules.

"The best result here for the ethics committee is to get this done, to get these rules considered on the House floor, and to get them changed," said Rep. Alan B. Mollohan of West Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the ethics committee......

[Roland99]

12. Of course they are. It's a HUGE conspiracy

The only people left on the right are the true loyalists to the Propagandist.


You'd better start learning to fall in line.

[xxqqqzme]

5. when in the hell will

the Democrats learn to stand 2gether. They may not B in the majority but if they stand as a block so much can B slowed down or brought 2 a halt.

[magellan]

7. Another Blackwell, another lie

Right, DeLay's a "good man". And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon.

DeLay will never go down while the Repugs are in charge. They'll just keep doing what they do best - breaking the law and lying for each other.

[huellewig]

8. My grandpa told me about the Normandy invasion..

My dad told me about being a welder in the Navy during Vietnam. I guess my claim to fame is witnessing the day our country died.

the day our country died = massive bullshit goes unquestioned by the media

[truthisfreedom]

9. wow, but will they allow themselves to be drawn into the controversy?

or will some remain behind, unsure if their fearless leader is really in trouble?

delay is ankle-deep. they have to decide if that means he went in head-first.

[anarchy1999]

10. DeLay and Company, it is personal now. You are going down, you

are giving Texan's like myself a bad name and we have had enough!

Repubs, Christian Fundamentalists, Dems, Independents and all the rest, we've had enough of you making Texas look BAD, Mr. DeLay!

Texas will remove you from your undeserved post as House Majority Speaker, with or without the rest of this nation.

You shame us all.

[paineinthearse]

11. Overview of the scandals

http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/delaycasefile/index.html

Bring it on!

[MissMarple]

13. Oh my goodness, he's being picked on!

A guy just can't get away with any graft or under the table shenanigans anymore. :eyes:

[Cocoa]

14. great news!

the GOP is wishing they could be rid of this burden, and Tom is saying I'm not going anywhere.

[Toucano]

15. Yeah. Don't bother cleaning up your house.

Just attack the people who say you're filthy.

Typical.

[byronius]

16. I hear the gurgles of a drowning Bugman.

[wallwriter]

17. Yeah, really

As scary an S.O.B. as he really is, I'm really starting to enjoy watching the guy get insanely angry. He's still very dangerous, but he has all the markings of a guy who is going to bring about his own demise.

All the ethics stuff, the redistricting, the bullying is really hideous. But I predict that when the Bugman goes down, it will be because of some dumbass comment from his own mouth.

[Kimber Scott]

18. If he really cares about his GOP agenda, he should step aside and not

become a distraction to their cause.