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Whatever Happened to Tom DeLay and his legal problems?
01.04.2008 | Vanity-All-The-Way

Posted on 01/04/2008 8:24:28 PM PST by JustTheTruth

So...

Whatever did happen with Tom DeLay and the charges against him? Inquiring minds want to know....


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democratattacks; fundraising; tomdelay; trysearching
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To: JustTheTruth
"I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters." John Keats

I have to agree with Mr. Keats.

21 posted on 01/04/2008 9:26:05 PM PST by Daaave ("Where it all ends I can't fathom my friends")
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To: JustTheTruth
Why do doctors like to operate on lawyers?

Because it's so easy! They're spineless, gutless, and both ends are interchangeable.


22 posted on 01/04/2008 9:39:45 PM PST by kitchen (Any day without a fair tax thread is a good day.)
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To: JustTheTruth

He didn’t help his own cause a whole lot when, in the middle of the so-called “Republican” pork spending orgy, he declared that he couldn’t find any more pork to cut from the budget.


23 posted on 01/04/2008 10:00:47 PM PST by FlyVet
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To: FlyVet

Tom Delay is still not a criminal...


24 posted on 01/04/2008 10:08:53 PM PST by foldspace (Tom Delay is still not a criminal...)
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To: foldspace

I don’t think he did anything legally wrong either, but he was a poster boy for RNC failure back then. The pork spending woulda made a Democrat blush.


25 posted on 01/04/2008 10:20:59 PM PST by FlyVet
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To: FlyVet
He didn’t help his own cause a whole lot when, in the middle of the so-called “Republican” pork spending orgy, he declared that he couldn’t find any more pork to cut from the budget.

???
You didn't take his sarcasm seriously.... Right...??

26 posted on 01/04/2008 10:21:42 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard; calcowgirl; ElkGroveDan
Hey! This administration's Justice Department is doing the very same thing right now to my congressman John T. Doolittle! Doolittle and Delay were flipped off right away by Hitlery Clinton when she strode into the Whitehouse.

This administration has been compassionate to everybody except Tom Tancredo, Weldon, Doolittle and Delay!!! Loyal Americans and righteous conservatives all!!!

27 posted on 01/04/2008 10:29:53 PM PST by SierraWasp (IA caucuss goers just gave us Jimmy Carter II and Jimmy Carter III. God save the USA!!! Please!!!)
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To: Lancey Howard

I didn’t hear any sarcasm in it, and nothing was done about it. Right?


28 posted on 01/04/2008 10:35:47 PM PST by FlyVet
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To: FlyVet

The pork spending woulda made a Democrat blush.

The current budget contains more pork than ever and -—I don’t see any Dems blushing! Why is that?


29 posted on 01/04/2008 10:42:01 PM PST by saganite (Lust type what you what in the “tagline” space)
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To: JustTheTruth

It was announced today that all government life-sciences
research facilities will start using lawyers for
experimentation purposes instead of lab rats.

The reasons given were:
1) There are far more lawyers than rats in the USA
2) Researchers don’t form emotional bonds with the lawyers
3) No matter how much you pay them, there are some things that even a rat won’t do.


30 posted on 01/04/2008 10:45:23 PM PST by Roccus (..........................FOR RENT......................)
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To: SierraWasp
This administration has been compassionate to everybody except Tom Tancredo, Weldon, Doolittle and Delay!!!

....And Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.

31 posted on 01/04/2008 10:50:59 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: SierraWasp
Many conservatives burrowed within the Department of Justice have long complained that Gonzales (therefore, Bush) has permitted career government employees and hold-overs from Democratic Administrations to remain in perches of power and thereby water down conservative directives from the top. As one conservative and Federalist Society member in the Justice Department told me: “This is definitely not Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department, I assure you. You have holdovers from Clinton calling the shots in a lot of places here.”

- - John Gizzi from: Should Gonzales Go? Human Events | March 20, 2007

32 posted on 01/04/2008 10:53:25 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: JustTheTruth

The howling for DeLay’s scalp went the same place that the howling for Alberto Gonzales’ scalp went when he exited.

The DemocRats got their scalp, that’s all.


33 posted on 01/04/2008 10:59:37 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([Fred Thompson/Clarence Thomas 2008!])
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To: JustTheTruth
*What do you call a bus load of lawyers going over a cliff?
A good start.
34 posted on 01/04/2008 11:00:44 PM PST by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: FlyVet
I didn’t hear any sarcasm in it, and nothing was done about it. Right?

Tom was frustrated by his fruitless efforts to rein in pork-barrel spending. It's tough even for a Tom DeLay to jerk the heads of ~240 Republican pigs out of the public trough, especially when there's another 200 rat pigs in there, too. So, no - - one lone Texas congressman (albeit, a powerful one) could not pull off that Herculean feat. And Denny Hastert (Republican Speaker of the House - - remember him?) was certainly no help, either. Utterly useless, in fact. So DeLay made his comment as a subtle (too subtle?) way of taking a sarcastic public slap at his fellow Republican piggies. Sheesh... DeLay needs a /sarc tag now?

You are right about one thing, though - - nothing was done about it.... That is, of course, until the elections of 2006 when the voters did something about it. (The joke's on them, though, because the rats are even worse than the Republicans!)

FRegards,
LH

35 posted on 01/04/2008 11:10:25 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

I have never understood why they let these people stay.


36 posted on 01/05/2008 1:50:57 AM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: furquhart
They’re very, very slowly making their way through the courts. Presumably Ronnie Earle doesn’t want it to go to trial quickly, since there’s no real case.

There is a good chance most judges would tell ronnie earle to go fly a kite when this thing hit their courtroom. DeLay's defense team was trying to get a change of venue out of Travis county to start with, because most judges here are liberal. Any other court would probably tell earle the facts - what DeLay did was NOT even a law on the books when it happened.

37 posted on 01/05/2008 5:21:41 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I've been too busy for FR this weekend, because I did the things I refuse to let the invaders do.)
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To: evad

Ronnie Earle refused to ever bring it to a trial. There was no plea bargain. Frist’s case was dropped too.

As are the murder charges in Haditha.

Nifongism continues to chew up men’s careers with false charges in political witchhunts. It almost happened to Justice Thomas too.


38 posted on 01/05/2008 11:43:21 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy in 2008.)
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To: trumandogz

There was no there.

Ronnie Earle’s case will be dropped.


39 posted on 01/05/2008 11:44:45 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy in 2008.)
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To: weegee
One would hope, but that has not entirely occurred thus far.
40 posted on 01/05/2008 12:56:35 PM PST by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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