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Posted on 04/07/2005 6:15:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
Here are some predictions. They are dead certainties.
1. Night will follow day.
2. Average temperatures in Florida will exceed those in Alaska – which, by the way, has nothing to do with the phony trumped-up alarm over "global warming."
3. After a steady drumbeat of leftist attacks on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (aided and abetted by the media), you will suddenly read about push "polls," whose purpose will be to see how effective the organized smear job has been. And sure enough, the charts will show the wolf pack has done its job. DeLay's "public approval" ratings will point downward.
Unless ... conservatives fight back.
This is the way the powers of the liberal establishment trashed Newt Gingrich. They would have done the same thing to DeLay long ago, except that DeLay has been more effective in selecting his fights and deciding when to speak out and when to work behind the scenes. Newt had to have an opinion on everything and share it with the world, day in and day out.
Since then, they've tried the same demonizing tactic on Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and President Bush himself. Those efforts flopped.
Now the liberal playbook – and you can be sure there is one – has decreed that the time has come to run down Tom DeLay. The straw that broke the proverbial camel's back, it seems, was his leadership in the congressional effort to save Terri Schiavo.
The majority leader has said he will ask the House Judiciary Committee to undertake a broad review of the courts' disgraceful handling of the Schiavo case.
He said that "the time has come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior" and that Congress should "look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president."
Imagine that. The very idea that judges should be accountable to the elected representatives of the taxpayers who foot the bill for judges' salaries. What a bizarre idea. Why, it's an outrage!
Predictably, the howls from the wolf pack have already started.
First out of the gate was Senator Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat from New Jersey.
"Threats against specific federal judges are not only a serious crime, but also beneath a member of Congress," he thundered. (Translation: Here is my reasoned answer to your facts. Shut up.) The Garden State senator went on, "Your attempt to intimidate judges in America not only threatens our courts, but our fundamental democracy as well."
Democrats in the Senate have been calling President Bush's judicial nominees – sitting judges on lower federal courts or state courts – every name in the book. But of course, that's OK and the liberal media do not go out of their way to call attention to that "intimidation."
Given that leftist interests have been ramming through the courts of unelected judges anything they could not get through the democratic process of the elected lawmakers or executives answerable to the voters, why should anyone be surprised? After all, in their world of the double standard, "democracy" is defined as left-leaning judges inventing their own laws for the convenience of liberal politicians.
Senator Lautenberg has firsthand experience with that. In 2002, the New Jersey Supreme Court stepped in and, in violation of the plainly written New Jersey law, saw fit to put Mr. Lautenberg on the ballot after the Democratic candidate, the scandal-ridden Senate incumbent, Bob Torricelli, dropped out.
In the "get DeLay" hysteria, Senator Ted Kennedy chimed in, wringing his hands and saying that "at a time when emotions are running high, Mr. DeLay needs to make it clear [in criticizing judges] that he is not advocating any violence against anyone."
What a cheap shot that is. It would be just as logical to say that every time Senator Kennedy sits down at the wheel of an automobile, he needs to issue a press release that would "make it clear" that he has no intention of drowning a woman.
Now comes word that Democrats and a richly financed liberal group are planning an organized smear campaign aimed at discrediting the Texan.
The old Marxist playbook says if you can't defeat your effective adversary on substantive issues, assassinate him. In this case, the tactic is character assassination. After all, poisoned umbrellas are not available on every street corner.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has prodded the House Ethics Committee to launch an investigation of charges against her counterpart, Majority Leader DeLay.
Morton Blackwell, president of the Leadership Institute, has said: "I know personally that Tom DeLay is almost obsessively careful to get good legal advice before he takes any step which might conceivably be questioned under the law or suspected as an infraction of House rules. None of the leftist uproar has contained any evidence he has done anything illegal or violated House rules." People who really know Morton Blackwell will tell you that you can take that to the bank.
Pelosi – thought to be working behind the scenes to get DeLay into hot water – was front-paged in the Washington Times April 5 as having secured $3 million last year for a non-profit transportation research organization whose president gave money to her political action committee as the group was paying for a European trip for one of her policy advisers. That may not be illegal, but it doesn't look good. Ms. Pelosi, who lives in a glass house, should be careful about throwing rocks.
Let us examine the people behind the anti-DeLay effort.
A group calling itself the Campaign for America's Future, which the Washington Post says is "backed by labor and other leaders," is featuring DeLay in television ads in at least four Republican House districts and in DeLay's suburban Houston district, dredging up the old discredited charges against the majority leader.
Who runs the Campaign for America's Future?
Its co-director is listed as Robert Borosage, a man with a considerable paper trail.
In the 1987 book "Covert Cadre," author Steven Powell takes over 350 pages to give us a look "Inside the Institute for Policy Studies [IPS]," of which Borosage was then director. The think tank here in Washington has served as a magnet for just about every stripe of leftist you can imagine.
In one instance, he and Saul Landau, a senior fellow, visited Nicaragua and Cuba and afterward "were hosted by Thomas Borge, the Cuban-trained internal security administrator." Borosage told an IPS gathering that one reason for the trip was to "encourage European aid to Nicaragua to keep it from being isolated economically and politically." This was at a time when U.S. policy under the Reagan administration was to oppose the pro-Marxist Castro-aligned Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega.
In a 1983 interview with the author, Borosage said it was his hope to "move the Democratic Party to the left by creating an invisible presence in the party."
In 1977, Borosage and Morton Halperin cooperated with the ultra-leftist National Lawyers Guild to form what ultimately became the Campaign for Political Rights. This apparently was set up to help coordinate litigation through which in 1979 the IPS "gained access to the entire FBI file on the institute," and obtained an out-of-court settlement "providing immunity from past or present FBI monitoring, and most important, a blanket prohibition of any future intelligence gathering by the FBI or any other government agency." As Powell puts it, this allowed "IPS to provide a safe house for revolutionary activists at headquarters in Washington, D.C."
Bear in mind this was during the hysteria of the post-Watergate late '70s, when virtually any effort to conduct intelligence operations against America's enemies was considered heinous. This was the era of the Church committee hearings, which weakened our intelligence, the result of which became dramatically evident on 9/11.
The shah of Iran "was no fool," says author Powell. According to an annual IPS report, the shah pointed the finger directly at the Washington-based IPS as playing an important role in his downfall "and in the triumph of anti-western fanatics," which of course ultimately led the capture of American hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Iran. Of the approximately 90 people inside the facility, 52 were held captive for 444 days.
Powell's book contains a forward by David Horowitz (today the president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), who in 1987 wrote of the IPS: "Publicly they claim to be progressive participants in the democratic process. But like the leftist progressives of the past, their liberalism and pacifism are not political commitments. They are deadly weapons with which to lay siege to democracy's defenses to cripple its resistance to totalitarian advance."
Among the other groups active in the "get DeLay" movement is Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, whose Craig Holman attended a meeting of a coalition of liberal groups on Capitol Hill and was given the responsibility of finding a member of Congress to file a complaint against DeLay – according to the Chicago Tribune for June 15, 2004.
Ultimately, then-Rep. Chris Bell, a freshman Texas Democrat who lost his seat in Congress due to DeLay's success in a redistricting effort in the Lone Star State, did file a complaint against the majority leader. The move backfired. The House Ethics Committee in November found Bell in direct violation of House rules for his part in a premeditated partisan campaign to undermine the majority and the integrity of the House.
As DeLay was able to pronounce at a press conference November 19, Bell was found in violation of nine counts of rule violations and his complaint contained "inflammatory language, exaggerated charges, and serious misstatements of both fact and law."
Republicans are not sitting idly by while their House majority leader is trashed. According to The Hill newspaper for March 23, the House GOP issued research showing that the groups taking on DeLay are amply funded by billionaire George Soros – who spent millions trying to defeat President Bush last year – and that members of these groups' boards have contributed "tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and political organizations and several of their staff members have previously worked for Democrats."
There's more – much more. And we intend to keep an eye on it. Meanwhile, you can help stem the tide of this partisan political/media/think tank hit job by reminding Republican congressmen from your state to stand firm for DeLay.
As Morton Blackwell puts it: "Please don't get bogged down answering the absurd, groundless attacks. The left can and will raise phony new issues faster than you can respond to the old ones. Congressman DeLay has fully and publicly dealt with these false or nit-picky issues."
Better to put the spotlight on his ill-motivated attackers.
I think that DeLay is doing a superb job fighting back and we all need to support him.
We certainly do.
Okay, who had the "flying pig" pic?
As long as Tom looks to the Lord for help, and doesn't lean on the arm of flesh, he will have the liberals cowering back into their corner in short order.
The good news about the INSANE and HYSTERICAL media circus attacking DeLay is it is clearly showing how REALLY biased most of the Main Stream Media is and will hopefully anger enough conservatives that they will show up in overwhelming force in the next election. It's the folks in MY district that elect Tom and we LIKE him a whole lot. The media and Dem's can go to a really hot place and roast.
Ted Kennedy is such a despicable human being. His presence in the Senate is a terrible indictment against the people of Massachusetts.
Tom Delay is evil. Him and his corrupt bible believing, church going wife! He thinks he's so above the Left just because HE put at least one foster child through college and has taken in several troubled teenagers! What a jerk!
Tom Delay is evil. Him and his corrupt bible believing, church going wife! He thinks he's so above the Left just because HE put at least one foster child through college and has taken in several troubled teenagers! What a jerk!
Where the f*ck did you come from HELL? Go back, we don't want you, leave, sink..............
The Dems have submitted Delay to more scrutiny than any other politician in history (other than Bush). And they've so far found nothing on him. If they keep going like this, they may prove him to be the only honest politician in Washington.
The new lightning rod-Tom Delay.
Lauralee - you will discover you have to be real careful about the rules on filing public notice that you are about to make a sarcastic remark. Some people just won't see it even if it runs over them like a freight train.
Get lost retard. WTF are you doing here?
"First out of the gate was Senator Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat from New Jersey."
If it wasn't for the New Jersey Soprano Court's unwillingness to read laws, Lautenburg could not have run as a democrat.
I guess that Lousyburg thinks that a corrupt and arrogant court system can come in handy for him.
Lauralee's post is sarcasm - please read it again more carefully.
bookmarked
DeLay and the rest of us need to (continue to) laugh in the face of the dying socialist "mainstream" newsrooms. They lost big time in their effort to prove that they still had relevance (power) by giving everything they had in their attempt to get Kerry elected. So now they are trying to prove that they still have relevance (power) by going after DeLay. It won't stop.
Personally, I think the Republicans better turn up the heat:
1. Go nuclear on judicial filibusters
2. Scrap that idiotic Berger deal and throw the scumbag in jail
3. Go after the athiest ACLU and defund public broadcasting.
Ethyl:
Friendly advice: Read more carefully before you blast someone.
Sarcasm, read more carefully.
ethyl didn't get it. i liked it because it didn't have disclaimer and then ethyl's comments - intense
Guys, we have nothing to worry about. Last January, the Ethics committee has been rid of RINOs, and populated with folks who are proven Delay loyalists.
Libs can rail all they want against DeLay, but they don't do a thing about it. Speaker Delay is politically untouchable
The main emphasis is to get the conseravtive voter's out in his district. The Houston Chronicle and other local liberal media rags in his area are doing their best to carry the water for the Northeastern and Calf. radical left and try to create the impression he is damaged goods. A couple of local RINO's would like to make a run at him if they thought they could get away with it.
Mobilizing the conservatives will do the trick but they have to be alert and get out and vote.
If his wife and daughter have made $500,000.00, he should resign and join the democrats. We don't need him.
"In the "get DeLay" hysteria, Senator Ted Kennedy chimed in, wringing his hands and saying that "at a time when emotions are running high, Mr. DeLay needs to make it clear [in criticizing judges] that he is not advocating any violence against anyone."
Thats pretty bold talk from a drunken, philandering muderer. At least DeLay was trying to save a life - not take one.
Ah...I think that was sarcasm
Lighten up. Lauralee was being sarcastic.....
That is not a big problem in my book.
With the Freepers on the side of truth, Tom Delay will be just fine.
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Since when is impeached judge Alcee Hastings not a Democrat?
>>>"If his wife and daughter have made $500,000.00, he should resign and join the democrats. We don't need him."
I've read this and this is very disconcerting. However, all the articles describing these payments talk in very general terms, like "made $500,000." Exactly what does that mean. There may be explanations for these expenditures that went over 3 years or so. I think we need to hear the whole story before rushing to judgement.
On a scale from 0 to Ted Kennedy, this is probabably closer to 0 than Ted Kennedy.
I'm not saying it's all made up, I'm only saying that the articles are coming from the left and the MSM and that we need to hear "the rest of the story" before making a decision.
Hoppy
He has all kinds of volunteers working for him, but his own family has to get paid? BS. It's graft, and if he was a democrat, you'd be all over him.
What Tom Delay has been accused of is perfectly legal under the current rules. Delay is accused of hiring his wife and daughter to work on his PAC at a salary of 62.5 K a year for the past 4 years. If the contributors to his PAC were unhappy about the arrangement (Which is availible to the public) they could simply quit donating. Tom Delay has been delivering for his donors and I doubt anybody who has contributed to his PAC can claim Tom Delay has been scamming them. The fact is that Tome Delay has delivered, and his PAC is probably one of the most successful, and THIS is the why the Liberals are out to destroy him.... PERIOD
They worked for it over years. His daughter is a paid political consultant and ran his campaigns.
The money is donated money and not public money. Also, this is done by both Dems and GOP and has since the beginning of the country.
Also, it's not illegal to hire family and pay them in a campaign. Get over it.
I do not think he is fighting back smart. I really believe the MSM must be made to pay a heavy price on this. If it means a network is booted out of the capital then so be it. CBS would not be missed or noticed.
Delay must take no prisoners.
I was being completely sarcastic! SORRY!!!
Tom Delay has taken in several foster children! That was my point. And he even put one through college!
He is clearly an upstanding person!
Rush addressed that 500,000. It is over the course of many years!!
It's over 4 years. Why can't his family volunteer?
Many Congressmen and Senators employ family members. In politics it's important to have people you can trust. And we all know that Politics is a family profession, you need your family to stand right up on stage with you.
Especially Spouses. How many people ask their spouses for advice? How many people ask their spouses for career advice? A LOT of people. Both my parents ask and give eachother advice on their careers.
The only thing I have a problem with is say, A Senator proposing a bill that benefits his sons and his son in laws company like Senator HARRY REID!
Tom Delay is an upstanding man.
My bad. I was being entirely completely sarcastic!
Well, Roll Call unmasks the partisan stripes (or rather, spots) of these wobbly watchdogs. For those who don't have subscriptions, here's a snippet:
Since Republicans took control of Congress a decade ago, leading government watchdog groups have relentlessly pursued allegations of ethics broaches and fundraising abuses against GOP leaders ranging from retiring Rep. Nick Smith of Michigan to Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas.There's more the story could have added. According to one Hill source, nearly all of these watchdog groups are funded with money from the hyper-partisan Bush-basher George Soros: Public Campaign, $1.2 million; Public Citizen, $100,000; Common Cause, $600,000; Democracy 21, $250,000.But the groups have gone comparatively easy on Democrats - and a recent look through campaign-finance figures shows that officials of five leading money-in-politics watchdogs have given money almost exclusively to Democrats since 1994, when Republicans took over Congress.
According to the nonpartisan PoliticalMoneyLine, officials at Common Cause, the Center for Responsive Politics, Democracy 21, Public Citizen and the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have donated a total of $62,000 to Democrats over the past decade.
During the same period, the watchdog groups have given just $2,000 to Republicans...Said one House GOP leadership aide: "It seems 'nonpartisan watchdog' is Latin for 'active Democrat contributor.' Why they continue to get quoted as independent observers blows my mind."
Moreover, a board member for the Center for Responsive Politics gave money to one of Nancy Pelosi's Leadership PACs during the same time they were silent about her ethically-challenged practice of operating two leadership PACs. And another board member for the Center for Responsive gave money to corruptocrats Rep. Dan Rostenkowski and Sen. Carol Mosely-Braun.
So, who's watching the watchdogs? Daniel Okrent (public@nytimes.com) and Michael Getler (ombudsman@washpost.com), fetch!
Joint Victory Campaign 2004 - $12,050,000
America Coming Together - $7,500,000
MoveOn.org - $2,500,000
Young Democrats of America - $325,000
Democrats 2000 - $325,000
The Real Economy Group - $300,000
Campaign for America's Future - $300,000
Safer Together 04 - $150,000
Looking down the list of speakers scheduled to address the Campaign for America's Future's well-attended and well-spoken "Take Back America" conference this week, it was easy to surmise that the most newsworthy remarks would be those of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, U.S. Sen. John Edwards, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, the Rev. Jesse Jackson or, perhaps, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who was honored for his crusading against Wall Street's excesses and abuses.
< snip> But the most memorable address was a thoughtful and provocative commentary on foreign affairs by an unlikely populist: billionaire George Soros.
Freegards,
Mike
I'm just saying that we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard. I don't have to pay my wife or daughter for their help or advice.
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