Posted on 09/28/2005 9:35:52 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay indicted on one count of criminal conspiracy by Texas grand jury, according to Travis County clerk's office.
Are you at any time in the near future going to offer up ANY proof to back up your accusations? ANY?
I don't know who asked it
Are you hearing this? Brian Wilson is examining the indictment- he CANNOT find any EVIDENCE in it - vague innuendos..but no evidence.
Goes thru FIVE grand juries to find a sixth one either partisan enough or too overwhelmed to understand partisan politics.
Red flag: No there, there.
LOL, I know what you mean.
* Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Yarbrough (Democrat - 1978)
* Texas State Rep. Mike Martin (Republican - 1982)
* State Treasurer Warren Harding (Democrat - 1982)
* Attorney General Jim Mattox (Democrat - 1985)
* House Speaker Gib Lewis (Democrat - 1992)
* U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Republican - 1994)
* Former state Rep. Betty Denton (Democrat - 1995)
* Former state Rep. Lane Denton (Democrat - 1995)
* Jack Abramoff (Republican-2002?)
So in the past decade, he has only carried out political vendettas against Republicans. Before 1995, he was making a name for himself, so he went after the general indictable pool. Of course he indicted Democrats, since they controlled the State. Then there were the politically motivated indictments against Republicans.
That's my take on this list.
BTW, someone please post a copy of the indictment (!)
That's what Levin said. HA!
That is what I was told while acting as Jury Foreman for the Cook County Grand Jury for a month in the early eighties.
We had about 300 cases brought before us and handed down indictments on all but one.
But for your benefit I'll vary it to say that a semi-competent prosecutor can indict a TURKEY sandwich.
Now that's funny.
Great job stepping up to the plate!
Well gee, he has not been quote "his obnoxious self" lately because for the last Month Houston texas has been very involved in both devastating Hurricanes. His district is Sugarland outside of Houston texas, and he and all the other republicans in that area have been involved in the housing of evacuees from KAtrina and almost ground zero for Rita. What do you expect?
Ronnie Earle is at it again. The partisan Democrat District Attorney from Travis County (Austin), Texas, has, because of a quirk in the Texas law, the peculiar jurisdiction over statewide political issues, and he has persistently abused that authority over the past decade.
Earle became ignominious in Texas when he launched the politically motivated investigation of three of Tom DeLay's associates working for Texans For a Republican Majority (TRMPAC). This investigation has not produced any credible or compelling evidence of corruption, but it is widely cited by the left as evidence that DeLay is dirty.
In the ongoing controversy over whether he is an objective voice for justice or merely an arm of the DeLay-hating mob, Earle has "hammered" the final nail in that coffin.
According to The Houston Chronicle, Earle has now crossed the line into raising money for far-left interest groups:
A newly formed Democratic political action committee, Texas Values in Action Coalition, hosted the May 12 event in Dallas to raise campaign money to take control of the state Legislature from the GOP, organizers said.
Earle, an elected Democrat, helped generate $102,000 for the organization.
In his remarks, Earle likened DeLay to a bully and spoke about political corruption and the investigation involving DeLay, the House majority leader from Sugar Land, according to a transcript supplied by Earle....
"It may help Tom DeLay establish his case that Ronnie Earle's investigation is a partisan witch hunt," said Richard Murray, a political scientist with the University of Houston.
"It clearly fuels the perception that his investigation is politically motivated. It was probably not a wise move," said Larry Noble, a former Federal Election Commission lawyer who heads the watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics.
Earle has a history of vicious partisan hackery:
EARLE'S LAST FORAY INTO politicized prosecution in 1993 turned into a huge embarrassment when he went after Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), who was then Texas Treasurer. Earle made a series of trumped-up charges, including that the demure Hutchison had physically assaulted an employee. Earle dropped the case during the trial.
Defenders of Earle like to point to the red herring that Earle has prosecuted Democrats, as well as Republicans, over the years. What they don't mention is that those Democrats were clearly guilty of serious violations (the cases were open and shut), and those prosecutions happened decades ago, when Texas was essentially a one-party state (controlled almost entirely by Democrats).
The real issue here is a failure on the part of Democrats to cope with the loss of political power they held in Texas (and elsewhere) for so many generations. Because Democrats have been so ineffective at the ballot box, and because DeLay is, in part, responsible for that failure, he must be destroyed.
Ronnie Earle, by invoking DeLay's name in the raising of money for far-left Democrat interest groups, has shown his true colors; he is indeed a partisan prosecutor out to get DeLay, and those who claim otherwise are deluding themselves.
I am guessing that Dreier is moved up because they want to make it clear they think it is temporary. If it was permanent they would promote all the underlings up one.
You don't, in a temporary situation, want to promote every lower person up one, and then move them back down.
My speculation is that DeLay is going to fight the indictment directly to get it dismissed, rather than defend it.
It was interesting that they said Blount could take over SOME of the duties -- further evidence of the temporary nature.
Tom Delay is a Great American! That's why they have to try to get him.
What I'd LIKE to see:
Pence take over Delay's post
Coburn take over for Frist
Thank goodness for her stepping up to the plate! I was afraid we were going to get more Chris Shayes behavior!
Post it once, OK, then leave it, please.
Delay has no choice because of the rules
Earle knows that
Earle abused his powers and now Delay is guilty until proven innocent
This was a political attack .. plain and simple
This whole thing is very Kafka-esque.
SH&T. There goes the House.
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