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"Looks like DeLay's wife and daughter were on the take to the tune of half a million dollars." ~ Hank Rearend

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Rahm Emanuel Behind DeLay Hit April 8, 2005
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RUSH: Going back now to March the 17th, still doing research on this DeLay business as we did yesterday with the Los Angeles Times story on Dingy Harry Reid. Note how nobody picked that up. I mean, it ran in June of 2003; nobody cared a whit.

I brought it to everybody's attention yesterday, and outside of this show it didn't garner even a notice.

There was another story in The Hill on March 17th, and just as I said and have been saying all along, it's Democrats and their special interest groups that are organizing these attacks on DeLay's so-called ethical lapses.

The story was by Hans Nichols, and it turns out that Rahm Emanuel, who is now a member of Congress from Illinois, former Bill Clinton hit man is behind the attacks on DeLay and others for purely political purposes.

I mean, you knew a Clinton hand was behind this. "Democratic House leaders are casting about for squeaky-clean congressional candidates even if they’re long shots to challenge prominent GOP incumbents who have been tainted by news reports of their allegedly unseemly connection to lobbyists.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) strategy, still in development, aims to make ethical charges the touchstone of those campaigns and would use several high-profile local races to create a national image of corruption in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives."

This was in The Hill back on March 17th, almost a month ago.

Now, you might be saying, "Well, what's Rahm Emanuel got to do with this?"

Well, Rahm Emanuel is the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and he said, "Questions about strategy and targeting are a little bit premature, but several lawmakers and aides confirmed that Democrats are actively looking for candidates to run good-government campaigns against Bob Ney in Ohio and possibly House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas)."

So Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee strategy, and it's unfolding and the willing accomplices in the press are just falling right in line.

If the Democrats, former Clinton hit man Rahm Emanuel, want to make their strategy using "several high profile local races to create a national image of corruption in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives," then media is just going to follow right along and play the game.

Now, something else about this little paragraph here, "would use several high-profile local races to create a national image of corruption in the GOP controlled House of Representatives."

Now, we talk about a number of things on this program. One of them is the Democrat playbook being so old. There's nothing new about this. This is all they've got.

You notice the strategy of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is not to come up with an agenda that they can take to voters and say, "Here's what we're for and here's what we believe should be the agenda for America and this is why we want you to vote for us," because they can't be honest about that agenda.

They can't be honest and they know it's a losing agenda, unless the judiciary gets hold of it.

So their only hope in their own minds is to come up with this notion that the GOP Congress is corrupt.

Now, let's go back to 1994. Remember the Contract with America? A lot of people misunderstand... well, not "misunderstand," a lot of people just haven't considered one of the reasons why the Republican, "takeover", as the media loves to say, of the House in 1994 happened. It wasn't just the Contract with America although... Well, it was. The Contract with America was the central aspect of this.

Have you heard the phrase "all politics is local"? Chris Matthews' old boss Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr., the old speaker came up with that theory, "All politics is local, doesn't matter what I do in Washington as long as I get the old folks home built and a couple dams built, water treatment plants, all that kind of stuff, I'll win reelection every time because people vote their selfish interests and pocketbooks," and so forth and so on.

Well, that was largely true until 1994, and there were two things that Newt and the gang did. One: They did have a corrupt leadership of Democrats in the House at the time, who were coming off of the House bank scandal, coming off the Dan "Rosty" Rostenkowski scandal. There were all kinds of scandals.

"Fort Worthless" Jim Wright had been forced out for publishing a book that nobody bought except union members in bulk, thereby getting around the extra income rules and how you can inquire it. There was all kinds of stuff.

The post office scandal. You could walk in with a contributor's check of two grand, and you could take that to the House post office and say, "I want one 29-cent stamp," I think it was 29 cents then, "a 29-cent stamp, and I'll take the change in cash," and you could do it.

The House bank scandal, you could write checks for money you didn't have. What you were paid was irrelevant.

So all that stuff had built, but then Newt and the boys come up with the Contract, and when they did successfully for the first time in modern memory was to nationalize House races.

In other words, Aunt Esther running for Congress from South Dakota someplace ran on a national agenda, what she thought the United States government should be doing here and there, what our foreign policy ought to be, as opposed to how many old folks homes she got built in the district.

And when that happened of course that highlighted the fact that the Democrats are wrong and weak on foreign policy and bammo!

You couple that with Hillary's health care and a whole bunch of other debacles and the Republicans won the house in '94.

You've heard the Democrats say, "In order to defeat Social Security and a number of things, we're just going to duplicate []what Newt did.

We're just going to criticize everything. We're going to stand opposed to everything, and we're going to say 'no' to everything, and we're going to go after these guys the way they went after us. They call us corrupt; we're going to call them corrupt," and that's what they're doing, and this little paragraph here admits it: "Create a national image of corruption in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives."

But what they're missing is the Contract with America. The House Republicans had an agenda, and in that agenda you didn't read Democrats bad here, Democrats bad there.

You read, and became aware of positive agenda items and that's what the Democrats are missing.

They totally misunderstand why they lost in '94 and why they've lost since. They simply think they lost a PR battle and they think they didn't get their message out, and so now it's time for quid pro quo.

"Let's go after DeLay. We're gonna try to make the whole House leadership appear corrupt and we're going to go out and find squeaky clean candidates to run against them and we're going to run on a clean government agenda," and so it's hopeless. But I just knew that there had to be a Clinton bagman behind this at some point, and there is, Rahm Emanuel.

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RUSH: Here's Bob in Crescent City, California. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Hi. That was really funny. You sound like you're slurring your words a little bit today, Rush. Anyway, I think you're so wrong on this Tom DeLay and you're so skewed to the right that you do the whole country a disservice right now and you're getting to be kind of a bore. Tom DeLay has had three reprimands in Congress, and anybody that had three reprimands, if it was a Democrat, you'd be all over their back telling them that they should step down or a get rid of them just like you were all over the Clinton administration when they were in power. But now all you are is a service dog to the Bush administration. You don't even talk about the trade debt, the devaluing of the dollar or anything else like that like you were when Clinton was in office, when you were talking about the trade deficit. You don't even talk about that anymore. That was a key on your list during that and all you are is a lapdog now.

RUSH: Well, uh, Bob, you've called here with an agenda. In the first place the trade deficit, nor any deficit, has ever been a big deal with me because they all work themselves out.

CALLER: Yes, it has -- yes, it was.

RUSH: Bob, they all work their way out. But the big difference here, Bob, between you and me and the rest of you Democrats is, I have yet to be shown that DeLay is guilty of anything, as opposed to knowing Jim Wright was guilty, as opposed to knowing those in the House bank Republican and Democrat, when I was critical of both, were guilty, and all of these things.

But as I said yesterday, Bob, the big difference between you and me is that when I saw a corrupt Jim Wright, and I was doing this program then. When I saw corrupt Jim Wright, I didn't say, "Throw him out of office." I said, "Beat him at the ballot box."

When I saw a Bill Clinton that I didn't like and I thought was damaging the country, I tried to beat him at the ballot box.

You guys are afraid of the ballot box. You guys are afraid of the ballot box because you know you will not win there, so you have to motivate your troops to manage all this, gin up all this so-called corruption stuff so that people are thrown out, quit, or what have you.

Ever since Watergate, ever since Robert Bork, that's how you guys have operated. You're the ones afraid of the public.

You're the ones that are afraid of the ballot box. You're the people that are afraid to let the people be informed and vote accordingly.

I'm not. All I'm trying to do is inform people and when it's time to vote let's vote and count the votes and let the chips fall where they may. Big difference there, Bob. Might try smiling next time you call. [ END TRANSCRIPT ]

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3-17-05 The Hill
Rahm plots '06 attack on ethics By Hans Nichols

Democratic House leaders are casting about for squeaky-clean congressional candidates even if they’re long shots to challenge prominent GOP incumbents who have been tainted by news reports of their allegedly unseemly connection to lobbyists.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) strategy, still in development, aims to make ethical charges the touchstone of those campaigns and would use several high-profile local races to create a national image of corruption in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.

...several lawmakers and aides confirmed that Democrats are actively looking for candidates to run good-government campaigns against ...House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas). It’s fair to say that ethics is going to be a national issue in this campaign.”

....spokesman Brain Walsh said, ...“They are trying hard to create this smokescreen by obstructing the business of the American people and spinning false ethics stories, but at the end of the day they are going to have to be accountable to the voters..."

The DCCC’s decision to make ethics a mainstay of tactics in the 109th Congress and in the 2006 campaign is being welcomed by party strategists and senior aides.

...a leadership aide, said, “In 1994, ethics and abuse-of-power charges was one of the rallying cries of the Contract with America, and it worked.” ...
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/031705/rahm.html