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DeLay Will Quit Leadership Post in House
Breitbart ^ | Today | DAVID ESPO

Posted on 01/07/2006 9:23:30 AM PST by Gipper08

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To: Gipper08

Not good.


481 posted on 01/07/2006 4:30:31 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Gipper08

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.


482 posted on 01/07/2006 4:33:10 PM PST by Palladin (All the way with Alito!)
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To: ArmyBratproud
How does he pull this off since it's the Party rules that are keeping him from fulfilling the leadership position?.... Tell them to stuff it that he's taking over no matter what?

Nothing wrong with that and he should run again for the leadership position if he so chooses once cleared. That is why he and his attorney pushed so hard for an early trial and or to have the indictments squashed or thrown out. DeLay knew the Party needed a full time leader beginning when the Congress convenes in a couple of weeks. JMO.

483 posted on 01/07/2006 4:35:45 PM PST by deport (Happy and Prosperous 2006 to all.........)
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To: ArmyBratproud

I am SO with you in your anger....

I was upset last night...before Delay did this...when so many freepers were calling for his dismissal...

I blame the REPUBLICAN SENATORS as much as the HOUSE REPUBLICANS...because those darn RINOS in the Senate probably were whispering in the ears of the House GOP to get rid of Delay...

DAMN, JUST DAMN....(sorry Jim)...but I am mad, too.

Thanks ARMYBRATPROUD....you are right on target..


484 posted on 01/07/2006 4:37:21 PM PST by Txsleuth (Official Snow Flake!)
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To: cahome

"It's definitely all about the R's and D's."

No, sir, it is NOT. It is about a true conservative agenda guided by HONEST leadership. We haven't had such leadership since Newt left in disgrace.

Looking to Delay or any other of the current crop of shysters is not the answer. What we really need are strict term limits. If the career pols won't initiate them, we should, and the party affiliation be damned.

Incumbency and runaway gerrymandering is ruining our country. Drink all the Kool-Aid you like. As for me, I'll NEVER vote for another incumbent.


485 posted on 01/07/2006 4:37:31 PM PST by thelastvirgil ("When the roll is called in congress, they don't know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty'.")
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To: adam_az
DeLay was effective in getting the tax cuts through, authorizing money for our troops, and fighting the ubersocialism of the left.

Your posts make him sound like a Maxine Waters, and nothing nothing nothing could be further from the truth.

Politics is the art of the possible, not the perfect.

Well, no matter now: Tom DeLay is gone. Whoever the Republicans elect as leader next will, I'm certain, be unfit for office in the eyes of people who think Tom DeLay was too liberal. So start makin' your list of imperfections in a majority leader now; you'll be able to attach them to nearly anyone who'll take Tom's place.

486 posted on 01/07/2006 4:44:18 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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To: cahome

"So you think DeLay should leave in disgrace and he's a shyster."

Here's my position, loud and clear, so to speak: I think they ALL are disgraceful shysters. Period.

You, on the other hand, have the option of staying stuck on stupid, and convincing yourself there is a dime's worth of difference between any of the lot. You are just what the bastards are looking for and counting on to keep them ensconced in office forever.


488 posted on 01/07/2006 5:01:06 PM PST by thelastvirgil ("When the roll is called in congress, they don't know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty'.")
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To: lmavk
Just started reading "Atlas Shrugged" and get your tagline. Should be required reading for everyone, great book.

Thank you, yes it should be. Only novel I've ever read that needs an index.

And the way things are going, it'll move from novel to prognostication. I started a few companies, then removed myself from the scene for a few years. I'm back in business, but thinking of disappearing again. Tired of all the crap and sick to death of government parasites harassing those they steal from.

489 posted on 01/07/2006 5:08:37 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: thelastvirgil

Yep. Not a dime's worth of difference between the President and John Kerry, or Dennis Hastert and Nancy Pelosi, or Bill Frist and Harry Reid.............not a dime's worth.....


490 posted on 01/07/2006 5:13:38 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: ohioWfan

I was referring to members of congress, dimbulb. Nice try, though.


491 posted on 01/07/2006 5:18:20 PM PST by thelastvirgil ("When the roll is called in congress, they don't know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty'.")
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To: thelastvirgil
Oh......silly me. Such a dimbulb, I am. I thought that Nancy Pelosi and Dennis Hastert were members of Congress.....

Thanks for setting me straight.

psssst........one word for you to chew on.........Integrity. Denny has it. Nancy doesn't. Bill has it. Harry doesn't. Get it?

492 posted on 01/07/2006 5:26:44 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: Soul Seeker

In a word....yep.


493 posted on 01/07/2006 5:33:31 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Take the high road. You'll never have to meet a Democrat.)
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To: Txsleuth; Soul Seeker
I have a feeling you and I are pretty much alone in our thinking though...

You can count me in as well. I fear that most Americans will never understand that they're being played by the political/media establishment until it's too late.

494 posted on 01/07/2006 5:51:45 PM PST by tarheelswamprat
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To: Gipper08
"Mike Pence for Majority Leader!"

You beat me to it.

495 posted on 01/07/2006 5:56:08 PM PST by Earthdweller ("West to Islam" Cake. Butter your liberals, slowly cook France, stir in Europe then watch it rise.)
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To: Hank Rearden; Gipper08

Some of the libertarians are threatened by Mike Pence. That's a good sign for the GOP.


496 posted on 01/07/2006 6:01:51 PM PST by Earthdweller ("West to Islam" Cake. Butter your liberals, slowly cook France, stir in Europe then watch it rise.)
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To: Hank Rearden
I think you misunderstood my point that I was being sarcastic with whining Jrabbit when I asked her to join the democrats.

There is only one GOOD party in America: The Republican Party.

497 posted on 01/07/2006 6:07:28 PM PST by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: cahome

Amen.


499 posted on 01/07/2006 6:14:03 PM PST by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: thelastvirgil
You are just what the bastards are looking for and counting on to keep them ensconced in office forever.

IIRC, "the bastards" is a term of endearment reserved for voters.
As in, "The people have spoken, the bastards."

Case in point: a recent stunt by BBC Radio 4's Today program. As an exercise in grass-roots lobbying, Today asked its 6 million weekly listeners to propose a new law for the new year. A labour MP, Stephen Pound, was drafted to front the bill when it was all over.

More than 10,000 new laws were suggested over the course of a couple weeks. Of those, five were short-listed and voted on via email and telephone by some 26,007 respondents. The results, as one wag put it, "blew up" in the face of Today's producers and presenters.

Clearly expecting some sensible law mandating fat-free potato chips or renewed efforts to save the ruby-throated thrush of Upper Equatorial Guinea, the organizers were obviously aghast when the winner, with 37 percent of the vote, was a law allowing homeowners to use "any means" to defend their property from intruders.

Runners-up included measures forcing people to opt-out if they didn't want their organs donated for transplant after death, a bill to ban smoking in all workplaces including bars and restaurants, a double-headed one on term limits for prime ministers and compulsory voting, and, finally, a ban on Christmas advertising before December 1.

The winning law quickly became known as "Tony Martin's Law" after the Norfolk farmer who spent nearly four years in jail for killing a 16-year-old burglar who had broken into his home.

Currently, the law allows the use of "reasonable force," but in practical terms it tends to weigh heavily in favor of the wrongdoer instead of the wronged, and draconian weapons laws mean homeowners are unlikely to have more than a cricket bat or soup ladle to defend themselves. Tony Martin, in a far-from-unusual act of gall, was sued for lost wages by a second burglar he merely winged.

But after he heard the result, the Labour politician appeared to withdraw his support, arguing: "This bill is unworkable," as it "endorses the slaughter of 16-year-old kids."

Mr. Pound was apoplectic. The bill was "unworkable," he said. "I can't remember who it was who said 'The people have spoken - the bastards,'" he quipped.

http://www.techcentralstation.com/012304A.html


500 posted on 01/07/2006 6:33:18 PM PST by Cboldt
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