Time for Republicans to learn the Chicago Way

www.neveryetmelted.com ^ | 10/30/2005 | Never Yet Melted

[Venator]

What Republicans have to do to to protect major Republican leaders from the continuation of career assassination via opportunistic charges and prosecutions on the flimsiest of grounds is to follow the advice provided by Sean Connery’s Jim Malone to Kevin Costner’s Elliot Ness in Brian de Palma’s The Untouchables (1987):

Connery: lf you open the ball on these people, you must be prepared to go all the way. Because they won’t give up the fight until one of you is dead.

Costner: l want to get Capone. l don’t know how.

Connery: Here’s how you get Capone: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That’s the Chicago way! And that’s how you get Capone. Now, do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?

[Cicero]

No, it's a Republican agreement. The Democrats have refused to make a similar agreement. And I disagree with your evaluation of DeLay.

[j831526]

Thanx - I had thought it was a House rule. Since DeLay is still a powerful congressman, I hope you're right and not me. I've always considered him a slime since I saw the video of him telling Samoan slave owners they represented everything that was good and right in America. To me it was like seeing the photos of Jane Fonda cavorting in North Vietnam. Some things I just don't EVER forgive.

[Cicero]

Howls die down. They shouldn't have chickened out.

Every time they do, it makes it harder next time, because it gets like Pavlov's dog. If the leftists get fed every time they howl, then naturally they will howl louder and louder. It's a mistake to appease a yellow dog, an Arab, or a Democrat.

[p23185]

The Republicans play defense all of the time. The Democrats play offense. Wouldn't it be fun to switch that around?

The Repubies could become a real powerhouse.