DeLay defiant over ethics allegations

[RedEarth]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Defiance defines House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who has three lawyers, one crisis consultant with Justice Department experience and a new support group of conservative activists as he tries to survive allegations of ethical misconduct.
"He is the number one enemy to the liberal syndicate," says supporter Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, arguing that Democratic political attacks are to blame for the Texas lawmaker's difficulties.

"The assertions (against DeLay) are serious, they are ongoing," House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland countered on Tuesday. "I think the public is not going to let this go."

Whatever the view, Republican lawmakers and their aides say that the House GOP rank and file will ultimately control DeLay's political fate. If they decide that defending him comes at too great a political cost to themselves, they will act accordingly, whether or not he is charged with a crime, these Republicans say. They spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the subject.

That makes the next several days a checkpoint, as Congress returns to work after a two-week break punctuated by Democratic attempts to raise DeLay's profile and a poll indicating a drop in support back home.

http://newsobserver.com/24hour/politics/story/2286425p-10477067c.html

[rodeodance]

1. crybaby--he made his bed now he can sleep in it!

....."He is the number one enemy to the liberal syndicate," says supporter Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, arguing that Democratic political attacks are to blame for the Texas lawmaker's difficulties.
.......

[caledesi]

2. Get out the super-industrial Raid. He has to go. nt

[marmar]

3. A cornered rat...

will fight to the death....
DeLay is a complete pig. I can't wait until it all falls down on his sorry ass.

:nopity:

[rodeodance]

4. Sometimes it takes a lot to topple the big!!

[rodeodance]

5. Delay just on ABC handing out GOP "physician of the Year" awards which

are rather bogus. Story said many handed out by GOP. u...mm i will have to find this story.

[scavok]

6. We need to keep Tom around until 2006

A wounded, defiant Tom Delay can be a great campaigning tool.

[caligirl]

7. Amen to that.

[saltpoint]

8. It's tempting to delay DeLay's justice until the week or so --

-- before the 2006 elections, but then I think better of it and realize he has to go immediately if not sooner.

Democracy doesn't do well when sleazemasters sit at the control panel.

Pack your damn bags, Tom. You're out of here.

[MADem]

9. He is in MAJOR hot water due to consorting with RUSSKIES too!!!

http://rawstory.com/delay_russian_405.htm

Will the lapdog WAPO actually put this story on Page One? If so, the hammer WILL get hammered....
WASHINGTON - A six-day trip to Moscow in 1997 by then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was underwritten by business interests lobbying in support of the Russian government, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the trip arrangements.

DeLay reported that the trip was sponsored by a Washington-based nonprofit organization. But interviews with those involved in planning DeLay's trip say the expenses were covered by a mysterious company registered in the Bahamas that also paid for an intensive $440,000 lobbying campaign...

[caligirl]

11. Can you hear Slim Pickins bitchin about this. That yellow bellied snake

in the grass. A real live russkie lovin snake.




:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[UpInArms]

10. this is not "simply an attack on DeLay"

DeLay is representative of many of the things that are absolutely evil and criminal with the "political leadership in Congress and on the political agenda" and please, don't confuse what that is with "conservative" - it is a radical fascism.

"We don't view this as simply an attack on Delay. We view it as a political assault on the political leadership in Congress and on the political agenda and on conservatives, period," said David Keene of the American Conservative Union. "If we're a serious movement we do not allow any of our leaders to get attacked without responding."

[realFedUp]

12. Roaches are hard to get rid of

especially the big old ones...but when
they're smashed, what a mess.

[0007]

13. When trapped like rats the repukes start eating themselves....

0h so fun to watch! And Rush Limbaugh will tell 'ya that he's all about entertainment when he pinned down.