Posted on 04/05/2005 10:59:41 AM PDT by bgsugar
DeLay tackles 'liberal media, out of control judges' in home turf
By: SESHADRI KUMAR , Editor
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land was in his elements at the Sugar Land Rotary Club last week as he spelled out his views on issues ranging from "how to fight the liberal media" and the "out of control" judges to the ethics violation charges and his leadership role in the Congress to social security reforms and tax reforms.
Responding to the standing ovation, DeLay said "I wish some in the national media had seen the warm welcome. It would have helped me a little bit in today's environment."
Describing the new 109th Congress as a dream come true, DeLay said "I have been living for and working for this my entire career."
"To have a Senate that can pass legislation and the incredible moral leadership of the President matched up with the House is a dream come true," he said, adding the current Congress has the most ambitious agenda in 20 years.
The House passed a law suit reform legislation every year, but not in the Senate. It has been 10 years since the federal government last raised the taxes, DeLay said.
"Security, prosperity and family" are the basic tenets of the Republican agenda, he said.
"Security without strong economy is impossible and we want to double the economy in the next 10 years," DeLay said.
Listing the burden of taxes as an obstacle in the way of economic reform, DeLay said he supports fair tax. He clearly favors a national sales tax in place of the existing income tax. "Then, we will become a tax haven for the world," he said.
Stressing on regulatory reforms, DeLay said businesses spend $800 billion a year to comply with federal regulations. A 10 percent cut would save $80 billion a year, he said.
Redesigning the government to do things that make sense is another part of the agenda and the government reform includes overhauling the social security, he said.
The House Appropriations Committee rules have been changed to ensure that it is harder to spend and easy to cut spending, DeLay said.
"Family is the foundation of this country and we will fight back all the attacks on the family," he said.
Supporting marriage as between man and a woman is one of them. Fighting pornography is another. Fighting back judicial activism is the next.
"We have unaccountable, out of control judiciary. We are after them," DeLay said.
"The Constitution gives us (Congress) the responsibility to create courts. If we can create them, we can uncreate them," he said.
DeLay made a special mention of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court in California, that is in favor of taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance and said the House adopted a bill to break that court into two and make the meet in Guam.
Commenting on Terri Schiavo's case, DeLay said the courts did a disservice to her. He believed in erring on the cause of life.
"If we can allow Scot Peterson (who murdered his pregnant wife), to be heard in federal court, my God, why not Terri Schiavo," he asked.
During the question and answer session, one member asked if then Attorney General Janet Reno could send the ATF agents to save the child Elian Gonzalez, why not do the same for Terri.
"Nobody is asking the President to do anything illegal.
We are a nation of laws. As unfortunate as the case is, nobody is asking the President to break the law. What Reno did was illegal. Terri's legacy (on the right to die) will remain. Now, the Pope needs to be fed through a tube. Should we be deciding his future?" DeLay said. On Jesse Jackson taking the same stand as DeLay on Terri Schiavo's case, DeLay said "I am happy for anyone to help in this issue."
DeLay gave an elaborate response to a question on "how can he help fight the liberal media.."
"There is a concerted, publicly announced strategy. It is not about me, but what I stand for and I have accomplished. I just happen to be the focus. It is a huge fight. George Soros is behind this and millions of dollars have been raised. But, they have a problem. They can't find anything that I have done wrong," De Lay said.
One of the lawsuits brought against him was that "he was conspiring to defeat Democrats."
"Yes. It cost me $600,000 to fight the case," DeLay said. "If I spend money on lawyers, I won't have time and money for the Republican Party.," he said.
DeLay maintained that the ethics charges brought against him by former Congressman Chris Bell have been "dismissed." If Bell had remained in the Congress, he would have been censured for filing baseless charges, he said.
Turning to the current reports on alleged ethics violations in his foreign trips, DeLay said he had an international responsibility and he worked with conservative groups in Britain, France and even Russia, from where he helped many Jewish families get out. His South Korean trip was paid by an exchange group, he said. I travel a for a reason, the reason the national media hates. Because of the extreme scrutiny, we make sure every step I do take is checked by several lawyers to ensure that I don't break the law. The more they attack, the stronger I get," DeLay said.
On the issue of illegal immigration, DeLay's remedy is to "enforce the law."
"You can never build a wall high enough to prevent the immigrants from Mexico. The eyes and ears of our military can be used to protect the borders. I support the President's guest worker program. It is not an amnesty. It is for those who come here legally."
Mainstream Media ELITE
If George Soros is behind this, as someone said could be the case, CBS might not need that many advertisers.
I have a feeling that this will be a pro-euthanasia movie, and I'm concerned that too many viewers will buy the lie.
This is a FULL BLAST FRONTAL ATTACK FROM MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND DEM'S. They'r now dragging up 8 year old trips to try to get to DeLay.
They've already run the two year old faux indictment scam about as far as it will go, dragged out the old liberal hometown editor who hates him and lies on national TV, smeared him daily for the last two years in the Houston Chronicle (aka NY TIMES SW) and Austin-American (aka SF Chronicle East) and now, desparate for something "totally new" go back 8 yers for a trip to Russia.
Dan Rather was an angel compared to this BS.
I wonder why Tom pulled the plug on his Dad then??
The finer the politician, the more the media will attack him/her.
We need to help expose the other side by writing letters to editors and calling talk shows.
I have called Tom DeLay to support and encourage him.
I called my reps to ask that Tom DeLay be supported with his fight against judicial tyranny.
NOT EVEN A CLOSE COMPARISON
His father was on major life support and basically dead
Terri couldn't swallow and all she needed was food througha tube so she was starved to death just like you would be if you were locked in a room and noone was allowed to give you food or water.
BIG DIFFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish Delay would run for president
A lot of people where Tom lives care about what's good and clean and decent and honest and fair and right. As opposed to a lot of people who live in a lot of dem districts, whose greatest concerns are getting crack and 40 oz. alcoholic beverages. I like Mr. Tom.
Tell the Media to report the REAL Schiavo polls!
http://capwiz.com/sicminc/issues/alert/?alertid=7351686&type=ME
My account, etc. of Terri Schindler's Funeral Mass:
http://tekgnosis.typepad.com
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