Posted on 11/17/2004 10:58:25 AM PST by freepatriot32
From Texas Democratic Party Chairman Charles Soechting on Republican DeLay Decision: "After undermining the political process for his own personal political ambitions, Tom DeLay has now persuaded his own colleagues to vote against their own mainstream values. The only values DeLay and his cronies stand for are greed and corruption."
I read that DeLay stayed quiet and his colleagues brought this about on their own!
If a demonrats lips are moving, it's lying.
True enough. I think there WILL be some damage infliction by those outlets that don't want to tell the WHOLE story. But the alternative - holding the entire congress hostage to any prosecutor's whim - is the worse evil.
Thank God the MSM failed in 2004!
that pissant DA woulda died by duel once upon a time.
i'da put my $$$ on DeLay...he looks tuff.
Dumb Ass Rat Earle. or...
The "Deusch of Earl"
lol!! I can hear the crying from a mile away
Agreed. And views such as this are the main problem I have with many in this forum:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157698/posts?page=20#20
This view [party before country and cause] is destructive to conservatism and to the country...and frankly it is getting to be a very tiresome excuse for not doing the right thing...especially now that Bush has won his conservative mandate.
If DeLay is not indicted, or is indicted and acquitted, then NO BIG DEAL. If he is proven to have committed a crime, then the Republicans MIGHT have a problem. It's all just inside chatter now...
According to Michael Barone .. THE DEMS HAVE A SIMILAR PROVISION IN THEIR RULES. How about them apples. I guess it's okay for the dems but not Tom Delay.
Its a back-handed slap at Travis County Democrat DA Ronnie Earle. We all know all the roads in Texas lead to and end in Travis, the Black Hole Of Texas.
I'm shocked, shocked, I say!
--NOT!
HF
..BUSH WON!!>>FOUR MORE YEARS>>WOO HOO!!!
You are not alone.
The old rule was not flexible enough to separate the wheat from the chaff when it came to indictments. In the famous words of Webster Hubbell, "a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich," and it is an open secret that the county prosecutor in Austin is seeking to indict Tom DeLay for some trumped-up charge in retaliation for DeLay successfully convincing the Texas legislature to adopt a congressional redistricting plan that changed the Texas delegation to the House of Representatives from 17 Democrats and 15 Republicans to 21 Republicans and 11 Democrats.
I heard Michael Barone say it as a member of Brit Hume's "panel" yesterday. I don't know if there is any kind of transcript for Special Report.
This from the article posted above. Depends on the meaning of similar?
Ok for the dims but not pubbies,according to Pelosee?
Help, help! I don't understand.
Add that grand juries generally follow the lead of the DA, leaving it to the trial jury to hash out the matter.
I like Tom Delay and I doubt he will be indicted. Nevertheless, this rule was passed because the Democratic leaders at the time were actually criminals. It was a good rule and it should stand. We have to be on the right side of things, even if it is occasionally inconvenient. That is what makes us different from THEM. And it would have zilch effect on daily business: Delay effectively ran the Republican caucus in the House long before he had the title, and he still could, and even if there is an indictment, it will be revealed for the partisan attack that it is. A man who has done nothing illegal has nothing to fear, and a job title is not that important. It is better to do the right thing.
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