Delay “The Hammer” gets Hammered Today!

[NightOwwl]

Oh what a difference a day and a press conference make. Way to go Dems! :applause:

DeLay steadily loses any shot at becoming speaker of House
Chicago Sun-Times - 19 hours ago
The drip, drip, drip of negative stories about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) have already accomplished one thing -- dashing the likelihood DeLay ...
http://www.suntimes.com/output/sweet/cst-nws-lynn13.html

DeLay should resign without further delay
Arizona Republic, AZ - 23 hours ago
There have been escalating questions about the ethics of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay over the past few years that need to be addressed. ...
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0413wedlet131.html

Historic parallels as DeLay's woes deepen
Christian Science Monitor - Apr 11, 2005
By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. WASHINGTON – The gap between what House Republicans say ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0412/p02s01-uspo.html

DeLay Draws Fire From Fellow Republicans
ABC News - Apr 10, 2005
In this photo provided by ABC News, US Sens. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., right, and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., appear for an interview ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=658869

The Loneliest Republican
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
By Dana Milbank. Rep. Christopher Shays (Conn.), the only Republican in Congress to call for Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) to resign as House ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51336-2005Apr13.html

GOP congressman says DeLay should step down as House majority ...
Newsday, NY - Apr 10, 2005
By LOU KESTEN. WASHINGTON -- Private GOP tensions over Tom DeLay's ethics controversy spilled into public Sunday, as a Senate leader ...
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--delay0411apr10,0,1539727.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut

Under Fire, DeLay Apologizes for Criticizing Judges
Los Angeles Times (subscription), CA - 6 hours ago
By Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer. WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, increasingly under fire for what critics describe ...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-041305delay_lat,0,886778.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[coloradodem2005]

1. Thank God.

[liberaltrucker]

3. Hopefully, the house of cards

is beginning to collapse. We can only hope.

[aquart]

7. Not yet.

But maybe soon.

[liberaltrucker]

12. Maybe

Even the sleezy Newt thinks DeLay went too far:wow:

[NightOwwl]

23. Ouch! Now that is an insult. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Hip hip

hooray

[saltpoint]

4. "If I Had a Hammer..."

I'd politely ask Mr. DeLay to resign. Absent his assent on that point, I'd use the hammer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Pride precedes the Fall

and tomy has not read the book of Proverbs... or if he has, he missed the meaning of it.

:-)

[saltpoint]

9. I bet you're exactly right -- he hasn't read it.

Not much call for spiritual contemplation all those years as a bug exterminator.

And even less now as a sheister wheeler-dealer in Congress.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Popcorn anyone?

:popcorn:

[NightOwwl]

8. This is going to be so much fun!

:popcorn: :beer: :toast:

[Andromeda]

10. Lots of butter on mine

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. there yuo go

butter

:popcorn:

[jojo54]

11. I'm rubbing my hands together in anticipation of DeLay's

shocked look when he gets the ax. He honestly thinks he's the top shit on the mountain and it don't stink. He's in for the surprise of his life when the bucket and mop come out for him to clean up his mess.

[NightOwwl]

15. He's looking a bit peaked here...

Feeling a little heat from his Republican cohorts, perhaps?

[purduejake]

18. This is something we all worked for. Congratulations.

Now let's continue our hard work against the right-wing while being encouraged by real results.

[lyonn]

50. It's all a matter of money

Has Tom provided enough money to his buddies to keep them from coming out against him? We all know his is not the smartest Texan (there are a few smart Texans) so that can't be why they stand so staunchly behind him. He and Bolton are peas in a pod, bullies with waaay to much power.

[Catherine Vincent]

13. Come on Hot Tub Delay!

You can do it! Republicans want you to STEP DOWN!:-)

[NightOwwl]

24. Hot Tub Delay?

That is something I could have gone my entire life without picturing. Gross!

[SammyBlue]

14. Introductions are in order

Shit, meet fan. Fan, shit! Shit, fan! I hope you two hit it off.

How long before the AssHammer take the "leaving to spend more time with his family" route?

Look in Gen Discussion for my poll.

[NightOwwl]

20. Pot and Kettle pretend they don't know him.

He's the black sheep of the family.

[Hissyspit]

16. Nicely put together post. Still, I don't know if the public really has...

a strong sense of what exactly this guy has done wrong.

[davidaquarius]

17. Bugman has a new project

Now, he's working on the Tom DeLay Restoration Act.

[NightOwwl]

22. It's hard work restoring your character.

Welcome to DU, davidaquarius! :hi:

[cat starbuck]

19. If one Republicanscum-bag can be driven from the Senate....

...why can't they all?

[NightOwwl]

21. We can dream, can't we?

Welcome to DU cat starbuck! :hi:

[oxbow]

26. From the CS Monitor article:

"But in private, some senior leaders are saying it's only a matter of time before the most powerful Republican in Congress is forced from office. "Democrats should save their money. Why murder someone who is committing suicide?" said a senior GOP lawmaker, on condition of anonymity."

Nice try, but we'll just take our chances. It's well worth the money to get the crook out sooner than later anyway.

[NightOwwl]

27. Good catch...

Sneaky little devils, aren't they.

[ktowntennesseedem]

36. The best way to get rid of him?

Democrats should keep pressing on how much they want him to STAY. The longer he's around, the longer we have a poster-child for everything wrong with Republicans and with this administration. If enough Repubs hear that we want him and why, they turn on him in a heartbeat.

It would be nice to have him around during the '06 midterms, but I don't see how he can last that long, nor how we could sustain our focus and complaints toward him that long. It's just a matter of time till he gets the boot; I say we milk it for all it's worth until then, and gloat in a well-deserved victory when it finally happens.

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

28. Poor Icarus. Your wings are melting.

Mr. DeLay, you've gone too far, and you've been exposed. Step down now, and save us all the pain. As the Scripture says, pride goeth before the fall.

[rocktivity]

54. Another example of great minds thinking alike!

Posted two days ago:

You flew too close to the sun, RoachBoy, when you said you'd pull the financial plug on any Repub that didn't support you. Carrying out your threat would cause a split in the GOP, which in turn would reduce Rove and Cheney's power. Come in for a landing you can walk away from before they finish melting the wax in your feathers!

:headbang:
rocknation

[AuntiBush]

29. When You're the "lone" Dutch-boy w/the Finger in the Damn

and you're forced to "let go," the water should start pouring thru.

:applause:

[Midnight Rambler]

30. 'Bout damn time

Here's to the fall of the Hammer :toast:

This is gonna be sweet. Not as sweet as booting the Idiot Son out of office would've been, but it ain't no small change either.

:popcorn:

[farmbo]

31. Be careful what you wish for. Delay's exit now spells GOP victory in 2006.

This man needs to personify the GOP Congressional delegation in 2006. If he exits early...with no trail of Ethical Investigations, Grandpa Hassert--a lovable milquetoast by comparison-- will lead the GOP to possible gains in the off year elections.

No. Let's be Rovian on this one.

Let him twist in the wind for another year, then run against him in 2006.

[Hekate]

33. Hmmm. Good point, but those kernels are still popping away...

...and I'm melting extra butter for them.

Having DeLay twist in the wind for awhile longer would be fine -- more time for the stink to enter the nostrils of our fella murkins; more time for thee and me to watch the show.

Hekate
:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[farmbo]

32. Be careful what you wish for. Delay's exit now spells GOP victory in 2006.

This man needs to personify the GOP Congressional delegation in 2006. If he exits early...with no trail of Ethical Investigations, Grandpa Hassert--a lovable milquetoast by comparison-- will lead the GOP to possible gains in the off year elections.

No. Let's be Rovian on this one.

Let him twist in the wind for another year, then run against him in 2006.

[Maraya1969]

34. OHHHH but they are PRAYING for him!

Dear Christian Friend,

Thank you for visiting The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert Foundation Website.

If you are a Bible-believing Christian who takes prayer seriously, you are needed on the front lines in the war for our nation’s soul.

You know that ungodly forces are out to destroy America. They hate the Gospel and America’s Christian heritage. They want to remove the Biblical foundations from American law and government, the very moral roots that made ours a free nation & a light among the nations.

* Do you want your children to INHERIT an officially God-less nation?

* Are you GRIEVED that 45 million American babies have been murdered by "legal" abortion?

* Are you HORRIFIED that the very sex crimes that provoked God to destroy ancient Sodom are now special, protected “rights” in America?

* Do you WEEP over a worldly, divided & largely ineffective American Church?

* Are you OUTRAGED that our Courts are determined to strip us of true religious liberty?

* Do you know in your heart that America’s ONLY HOPE is sweeping, God-given Revival & a Biblical Reformation - ushered in by prayer?

http://www.prayeralert.org/welcome.html

[Toots]

45. the very moral roots that made ours a free nation

So pray that we can take these freedoms away as quickly as possible. The freedoms Liberals want are not the same freedoms we want allowed. Only the Freedoms we say are proper. got it? so pray pray as if your life depended on it because we can't allow such freedom to go unchecked.....

[Maraya1969]

71. Yea, and it's interesting how that all hooks into the "Will of God"

How many times do you hear, "If it be Your Will" Then they go on praying for what they want anyway?]


Kind of like the comedians who joke about athletes thanking God for a winning game - as if God didn't listen to the other team's prayers.

Or students - and I've witnessed this at college - praying for a test. It would make more sense to STUDY!

[sellitman]

35. Revenge is a dish best served cold!

I wanna see the bastard twist, squirm and squiggle first. I want to see blood guts and gore, I want to see the rat bastard suffer.

Grabbing my popcorn> :popcorn:

[zulchzulu]

37. We're not through with DeLay yet...we need to drag the Repugs down more

Dissent within the Repug ranks has been slow...we need to have them all get on the SS Delay ship and sink them all together and watch them all lose badly in 2006.

Rope-a-dope these puppies...

[DUBYASCREWEDUS]

38. I AGREE

With all of you that think the Scumbag should stick around through '06 elections. The "Moral Christian Values" crowd needs to see just exactly what represents their party. I am so sick and tired of hearing how Republicans protect my values. GAG! They have so many poster children of scum besides DeLay (See: Rush, Hannity, Cheney, Chimpster, Judge Scalia, Santorum, etc., etc.) - I am sure I left many out. What I don't understand is how 59 million people can be blinded by this party. When these Morons preach "Values" to me it's all I can do to keep from hurling my cookies!

[NightOwwl]

59. Hi dubyascrewedus (heh)

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Don_1967]

39. It's about time

[NightOwwl]

58. Hi Don_1967

Welome to DU :hi:

[jmcon007]

40. BOO fricking HOO.......crockodile tears here...

[EvolveOrConvolve]

41. It might be better if the R's leave Delay alone

The more effective approach, from a progressive POV, might be to take Delay out in an election, rather than the R's taking him down with enough time to prep another conservative for the 22nd district in 2006.

The electors sending that message is far more powerful, IMHO, than the conservative power structure in DC removing him.

Whatever happens, there is a special corner in hell reserved for Delay.

[NightOwwl]

60. Hi EvolveorConvolve

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Mutley]

42. I'm actually amazed that he apologized...

as it says in the last article listed by the OP.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

51. Well, it's a classic R apology:

"Sometimes I get a little more passionate, and particularly during the moment, and the day that Terri Schiavo was starved to death, emotions were flowing," DeLay said. "I probably said — I did, I didn't probably — I said something in an artful way, and I shouldn't have said it that way, and I apologize for saying it that way."

He ain't sorry he said it, he's sorry about the way he said it!

[Lone Pawn]

43. Great job, so-called 'sell-out, roll-over' Dem leaders!

:bounce:

[BreweryYardRat]

44. Gotta go...

...with the "give him the boot in 2006" crowd. We need him to show the sheeple exactly what sort of "values" the Republican party represents for a while longer, so we can get rid of more GOP Congressmen in the midterms.

[KurtNYC]

46. Plenty more scandals where he came from

As Bob Marley said:

Strike the hammer while iron is hot.
Strike the hammer while iron is hot.

[ananda]

47. finally

All good things come to those who wait.

Of course, in a fair world, rodents like DeLay would never have been elected or gained power.

Apologies to all rodents for the comparison.

Sue

[ChiciB1]

48. Oh Please.... Let's Have Some GOOD News For A Change!!

Kick the Bastard Out and Good Riddance!!!!

What a TWIT!!!

[derby378]

49. The Hammer's new favorite song

An old Black Flag composition from Damaged:

Keep me alive
Only you can do it
If not, you'll die too
And I'll see to it
It's hard to survive
Don't know if I can do it
Keep me alive
I can't accept my fate
I need help
Before it's too late
It's hard to survive
Don't know if I can do it
I need to belong
I need to hang on
I need
Need

Keep me alive
Feelings I must obey
Can't turn my eyes from the past
This crisis is the last
Keep me alive
I rely on your judgement
I've got none left of my own
Don't know what I'm doing
It's hard to survive
Don't know if I can do it
I need to belong
I need to hang on
I need
Need

Keep me alive
Only you can do it
Keep me alive
Only you can do it
It's hard to survive
Don't know if I can do it
Keep me alive
Keep me alive
Keep me alive
Keep me alive
It's hard to survive
Don't know if I can do it
I need to belong
I need to hang on
I need
Need

[WorseBeforeBetter]

52. Who the hell is Marshall Wittman other than...

"a former conservative activist now with the Democratic Leadership Council"?:

"Republicans are suffering from what once helped them gain power," says Marshall Wittman, a former conservative activist now with the Democratic Leadership Council. "While nothing DeLay has done may be illegal, Republicans based their takeover on a revolution to make things different. I was part of it. Now, they're outdoing anything Wright did in terms of power. DeLay has intimidated the whole business community."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0412/p02s01-uspo.html

[NightOwwl]

62. He's got some great credentials...

:sarcasm:

Here's his bio from the DLC website:

Marshall Wittmann
Senior Fellow, DLC

Marshall Wittmann is a senior fellow at the Democratic Leadership Council. Previously, he was Director of Communications for Senator John McCain (R-AZ). Mr. Wittmann has served in various positions with the Hudson Institute, Heritage Foundation, Christian Coalition and in the administration of President George H. W. Bush.

And some DUers still think the DLC is working for the good of the Democratic party. :banghead:

[Turn CO Blue]

53. Bwahahahahaha!

Seems like everybody understand the sentiment behind the phrase, "Where there's smoke, there's fire!"

Where can we point our smoke detectors now!

[DebinTx]

55. The fight's not over til he's gone.

While all of this is great news, the man is a sheister and I'm not holding my breath until his seat in congress is vacant.

[wabranty]

56. W needs a high-profile sacrifice . . .

to draw attention away from his failed Social Security plan, latest Schiavo episode, rising gas prices, falling wages, and the general incompetence in Iraq. Plus Delay makes a good sacrificial goat where upon the Republicans can lay all their sins on his head and send him out into the political desert thus absolving W and his gang of any blame.

[NightOwwl]

61. In the process, however, he is exposing the corruption

within the Republican Party. And those who (for reasons I will never understand) voted for Bush a second time, are watching the takeover of the party by the radical right-wing fundamentalists. So there is still plenty to celebrate.

Welcome to DU wabranty! :hi:

[wabranty]

67. Thank you NightOwwl

It does give me great pleasure to watch some of the more moderate conservatives regret the fact that they voted for W the second time around. But, as I love to point out, they knew full well who supported him and what W was about after four years so it's too late for them to claim they didn't know he would go this far.

The crowning moment of all this is when W and Cheney do the perp walk from the Oval Office. Probably won't happen but what a great moment that would be.:woohoo: :popcorn: :rofl:

[Maestro]

57. And please no one forget

how he meddled in state government affairs when he basically negotiated the gerrymandering of districts in Texas to favor neo-cons. He is a roach, a survivor, willing to do anything to make sure his agenda is promoted. And like a roach, the only way to get rid of it is to squash it. He needs to go down for ALL the things he has done.

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

63. And now Bush defends him?

<snip>
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush called embattled Rep. Tom DeLay (news, bio, voting record) a strong Republican leader in the House of Representatives and denied he was a political liability for a string of ethics controversies.


"He's been a very effective leader," Bush said of DeLay when asked if he thought the Texas Republican had become a liability to their political party or its agenda.


"We've gotten a lot done in the legislature, and I'm convinced we'll get more done in the legislature. And I'm looking forward to working with him," Bush told the American Society of Newspaper Editors. <Snip>

The rest is on yahoo news here:

Bush Defends Embattled DeLay, Calls Him Effective

Makes one wonder how all of this will play out.

[0007]

64. How sweet it is?

I won't be happy until it becomes reality. This crime cabal never ceases to amaze me.

[Blue Belle]

65. Mark Fiore has a great cartoon out on DeLay today...

You can watch it here:

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/exterm.html

[ClayZ]

74. Thanks, I needed that....

I love Mark Fiore!

[New Dealer]

66. I heard Tom Delay's blood is in the water and the sharks are circling him

Unfortunately, it turned out to be a metaphor.

[NightOwwl]

69. Easy now, New Dealer...

you'll have the SS knocking on your door if you keep talking like that.

This is so cool...I have met many new posters on this thread alone. Welcome to DU! :hi:

[senseandsensibility]

68. Today on Air America they played the Springstreen song

Goin' Down in the background, during a story about DeLay. It was funny.

[NightOwwl]

70. You will love this...

Tom Delay's "House of Scandal"

http://www.houseofscandal.org/

[senseandsensibility]

76. Thanks for the link

bookmarked. :D

[ailsagirl]

72. The light dawns gradually on slow learners... how many years

did this take?? And he's not out yet.

He's an abomination. He's execrable. He's the slimiest thing to crawl out from under a rock I've ever seen. He's got competition (Rove is no prince) but he has to be the CROOKEDEST politician we've ever been cursed with.

May he get everything he deserves.

[ailsagirl]

73. And may I add another story link

(Can't get too much of a good thing, you know)

Tom DeLay And the Wright Stuff

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, April 15, 2005; Page A25

Being Tom DeLay means never having to say you're sorry. So when the embattled House majority leader apologized Wednesday for the "inartful" way in which he attacked the federal judiciary after Terri Schiavo's death, it was the surest indicator that DeLay's days are numbered.

DeLay is not in trouble because Democrats are trying to get rid of him. On the contrary, Democrats would like nothing better than to have a weakened DeLay right where he is at least through the 2006 elections. That's why Republicans are so nervous.

=snip=

But DeLay was not a big deal for most voters until he blasted himself across the nation's front pages with his lead role in the Schiavo case and his outbursts against federal judges: "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior."

As one influential House Democrat put it, "DeLay did for us something we could never accomplish ourselves. He made himself a household name." And having done so, DeLay set himself up as a target within his own party. It is not just moderate Republicans such as Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut who are raising questions about DeLay's tenure. Many at the heart of the conservative movement now have doubts about the Texas Republican's conduct, his ability to lead -- or, most devastatingly, both.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55027-2005Apr14.html

[Disturbed]

75. "Step down now, and save us all the pain."

It seems that this scum is causing pain to the Rethugs. Good! I hope he brings down others with him.