They really hate Christians and conservatives at the Houston Chronicle.
The left is trying to "Halliburton" Jack Abramoff and drag everyone down with him.
I'll take Dana Rohrabacher's read on someone, over Ralph Nader's any day.
Ralph Nader?!
I guess they couldn't get anyone else on Capital Hill to slam a lobbiest!
Here is a great editorial:
Keep DeLay, or pay the price
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382611/posts
EXCERPT:
Tom DeLay has been the most effective majority whip in living memory, never having lost a vote. He has engineered passage of every vital piece of Bush legislation as majority leader (sometimes with as little as a single hard-sought vote difference). By his tough work in Texas he has almost assured Republican control of the House for at least another decade. (I say "almost," because a party of nitwits and cowards are capable of throwing away anything.)
Any other Republicans currently feeling their knee muscles turning to jelly should wrap their knees tightly, stick a ramrod up their dorsal side and get back in the fight.
They should remember the political maxim that while the law will take care of the guilty, when a politician is innocent of the charges being thrown at him, he can only be brought down by his own side. I have been in a lot of political fights -- from the Goldwater campaign in '64, to almost all of Reagan's fights, to slugging it out side by side with my old boss Newt Gingrich back in the '90s -- and I've never been in one where sacrificing innocent comrades helped in the long run. Human sacrifice had been almost completely extinguished with the passing of the Aztecs -- until the Republican Party came along.
If a party can be stampeded -- by phony charges and a run of shoddy stories in whorish newspapers -- into dumping their most effective congressional leader, I wouldn't give two cents for their near term future. A party that would voluntarily cut off its own testicles and FedEx them to their opponent as a trophy is not likely to manifest any regenerative powers. That's the thing about losing those organs.
This makes Abramoff look pretty sleazy, but then most lobbyists look pretty sleazy to me. I don't see what any of this does to make DeLay look bad, other than guilt by association. This smear job on DeLay is pretty much of a stretch, even by RAT standards.