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Posted on 01/07/2006 9:23:30 AM PST by Gipper08
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To: adam_az
In The Huffington Post, this is the picture used for today's news:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/ap/delayindict.jpg
To: Soul Seeker
Just calm down. OK Delay is no longer House majority leader and it is a disappointment for all of us. Now we should hope that the next majority leader will be as effective as Delay was. Delay is still in congress and we can still count on his vote. Do not fall in the media and liberals trap and get desperate because they want you to be so.
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posted on
01/07/2006 2:35:35 PM PST
by
jveritas
(The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
To: sailorsam777
To: Gipper08
These officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt the formal announcement. This is a joke right?
To: adam_az
I went to New Hampshire on the weekend before election day and knocked on dozens of homes asking them to vote for President Bush. However I never bashed the President in front of other people because it is self defeating.
445
posted on
01/07/2006 2:37:32 PM PST
by
jveritas
(The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
To: Gipper08
That's too bad. I hope he comes back in '08.
To: staytrue
The Dems are a threat.
The RINOs are a liability.
Alito will shine some lite on this pretty soon.
447
posted on
01/07/2006 2:45:55 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(my acupuncturist is a Jewish Conservative......)
To: ContraryMary
Other than Sam Rayburn being temporarily sidelined by Republicans in 1947 and 1953, what other House leader has ever "come back"? It seems that the Republicans can't keep congressional leaders: Gingrich, Armey, Livingston, Lott, now DeLay. The Democrats though have lost just Jim Wright in the past 17 years, or is there one I am missing?
448
posted on
01/07/2006 2:48:05 PM PST
by
Theodore R.
(Cowardice is forever!)
To: grizzly84
I think that DeLay realizes that he is just a distraction at this point and stepped aside for the greater good of the party and the nation.
449
posted on
01/07/2006 2:50:35 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: dennisw
I believe that Flake was once the director or some kind of official of the libertarian Goldwater Institute in Phoenix.
450
posted on
01/07/2006 2:51:09 PM PST
by
Theodore R.
(Cowardice is forever!)
To: jveritas; Jrabbit
I am just trying to make you happy. Join the democrats and you will be very happy. You seem fixated on this bogus idea that there are only two parties: the 'Rats and the "we don't suck as much as they do" party.
Wrong. Both Big Stupid Government parties are bad for freedom-loving Americans, as the Republicrats may eventually realize.
451
posted on
01/07/2006 2:56:37 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: adam_az
Way to encourage the volunteers, raise their morale, and work for the best election outcome...... /sarcasm
452
posted on
01/07/2006 2:57:57 PM PST
by
ohioWfan
(PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
To: RockinRight
The Earle thing was BS, but the Abramoff thing is not good.Exactly. Well, maybe understated, but exactly.
453
posted on
01/07/2006 2:58:17 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Chat just ain't what it used to be)
To: Theodore R.
To: Eaker
Bush should have another year or so before lame duck status, now I'm not so sure, but I think Delay did the right thing. The constant harping by the Democrats would be endless and the media would be their megaphone.
455
posted on
01/07/2006 3:00:01 PM PST
by
Alissa
To: Hank Rearden; jveritas
I love freedom.......real freedom....... as much as anyone alive, and I'm a conservative REPBUBLICAN.
Most of those to the extreme right confuse freedom with license......which is not freedom at all. It's just doing whatever you want to do.
456
posted on
01/07/2006 3:00:52 PM PST
by
ohioWfan
(PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
To: zoddent
He was just too close to Abramoff, and thats not good for Delay's future in politics.
That may well be when it's all said and done.... But the event that has him out of the ML position is his indictment in Texas. DeLay and his attorney tried their damnest to get it squash or thrown out but was unsuccessful. Since Delay was unsuccessful in that attempt he was leaving the House with a Temp ML if he tried to hold onto his title. Other reps began to search for the 50 needed signatures to hold an election to replace him with someone permanent. Once that started and DeLay new he couldn't get a quick resolution to his Texas indictments I think he took the correct course and is stepping down.
Now the Abramoff thing may well hold a lot of problems for him and others, but it maybe a good while out before any legal actions are taken. Just my opinion and obviously yours differs as is your right.
457
posted on
01/07/2006 3:01:00 PM PST
by
deport
(Happy and Prosperous 2006 to all.........)
To: grizzly84
"And the rats bring down yet another good man."
Didn't I see on Lou Dobbs last night that the house MINIORITY leader got $80,000 from Abramoff? Where's that in the news????
To: Gipper08
Everybody just take a breath, and stop mourning this "loss". We'd all be much better off with a congress chosen randomly from a phone directory. The last thing we need are these career politicians running and ruining our lives.
All this R. vs D. bullsh*t is what has gotten us into this mess in the first place. Party, schmarty, they are all alike, and feed from the same trough of ignorance pulling the woool over our eyes as they go their merry ways of plunder.
Good and evil reside in the halls of congress just as they do in the general population. We now have 535 relatively evil people making decisions for and about us, and they ALL need to be sent packing.
We need real conservatives with real concerns about longterm success for this country' not a bunch of shameless charlatans with only their own careers and purses to consider. We've had, instead, about sixty years of buying votes with pork, pork, and more pork, and look where it has gotten us.
459
posted on
01/07/2006 3:07:18 PM PST
by
thelastvirgil
("When the roll is called in congress, they don't know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty'.")
To: deport
U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay announces today at Town Hall Center
in Sugar Land that he is permanently stepping down as
House majority leader. He made the announcement while flanked
by local officials, friends, supporters and his wife, Christine, right.
Jessica Kourkounis: For The Chronicle
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posted on
01/07/2006 3:12:44 PM PST
by
deport
(Happy and Prosperous 2006 to all.........)
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