Posted on 04/17/2005 3:11:04 AM PDT by GOPXtreme20
Conservative Lawmaker: DeLay Should Quit
NewsMax.com Wires
Saturday, April 16, 2005
WASHINGTON -- One of Congress' most conservative members on Friday became the second House Republican to urge Majority Leader Tom DeLay to step aside because of the ethics scrutiny he's facing.
"If the majority leader were to temporarily step aside so that these trumped up charges can be dealt with in a less hostile environment, as they have proven to be an unnecessary distraction, it may be a productive move," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
Tancredo's comments come after Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays, a moderate Republican, urged DeLay to resign from his leadership position at the beginning of the week. Also, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said DeLay needs to answer questions about his ethics.
Tancredo, elected in 1998, said he believes all charges against DeLay, R-Texas, "lack merit" and are "being leveled in the hopes of bringing him down and with him, the Republican majority."
Tancredo is known in the House for his tough stand on immigration and has 100 percent rating from the American Conservative Union for votes and his position on issues.
DeLay has been dogged by questions for months about his overseas travel, corporate fundraising in 2002 for Texas legislative campaigns, campaign payments to family members and his connections to a lobbyist now under federal investigation.
Some GOP colleagues have suggested his continuing ethics controversy is harming the GOP, while others say the criticism has been orchestrated by Democrats and their liberal allies.
DeLay has said he is eager to appear before the leaders of the House ethics committee and give "everything I have" in connection with allegations of misconduct. Spokesman Dan Allen provided a similar comment Friday and cited a list of accomplishments by House Republicans with DeLay as majority leader.
Before DeLay can meet with the ethics committee, Democrats and Republicans must resolve a deadlock over rules Republicans pushed through the House. Democrats oppose the changes.
"Yep- Delay should quit- Tancredo should quit- George W.Bush should quit-Why we ough tleave the filthy mess to the Jacki
that have dictated the dialogue since WW Twice.Every Christian-every Patriot-every member of Congress NOT under
influence of the transmission belt to Soviet Communist
Dictatorship (the ACLU ) ought Quit. The Dems and the
Republicans have made Congress essentially irrelevant anyhow.Even President Bush acknoledged we are no longer that
system established 1776-1791but under the Oligarchy of
Despots.Our mere politicians believe we could not exist
independent of that extra Constitutional anti-American organ the U.N.That petty despot to the South believes we are
Mexico's cash cow and exist solely to protect Mexican jobs
and future.So everyone not progressive enough to be part
of the new world order of human bondage ought quit."
That's the best post on the thread IMHO.
Tom Delay is fairly conservative, however, NONE of the abominations that have become law would have passed without the influence of Tom Delay.
CFR
Prescription Drugs
Edu. Bill
Nationalizing airport screeners
None of these are in ANY way remotely related to conservative thought.
Give Tancredo a break.
I love the expression: "Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory." I hope Trancredo enjoys his fleeting fame!
after all that crap you posted, you added "Give Tancredo a Break".
How about give us a break and try to find any loyalty Tancredo may have to anyone beside himself....
He's done. He can now go back to being an irrelevant blowhard we all KNEW he was....
Tell that to Tancredo. It was not Tom Delay that attacked him.
Exactally right!!!
You think so???? I don't. I won't support him. I am tired of people like him helping the Democrats destroy people in our party because they are standing in the way of Dems destroying everything I believe in. Would a Democrat get this kind of crap and would one of his own demand he step down. No way. Only Republicans turn on their own in cases like this. Who would want him as President when he can't even stand by a fellow congressman??? Who would trust him??? He's toast.
Weak willed Pubbies, slow news cycles.
I believe you've already done that.
Both legs or just one?
Done what, if I may ask?
yep...
and someone (probably me) will be on FR screaming FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP all day :)
Mark
Not only is he wrong about DeLay, he's siding with Sheila Jackson-Lee and her ilk.
Yes, he's getting his 15 minutes of fame from this, which is what wanted.
He's getting a lifetime of scorn from me.
Option #2.
Before Tom made these stupid comments, what issues did you disagree with him on? He has a 100% rating from the ACU.
It's not that I disagree with his stance on issues, but he is a disagreeable person in general and not someone I would like to vote for personally.
ACU ratings are good and all, but delivery is important too. Not only that, but he is taking sides with the MSM on the Delay thing and personally, I think his chances of being a viable GOP Presidential candidate just went up in smoke, not that he was very viable in the first place from a realistic standpoint.
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