Posted on 01/07/2006 9:23:30 AM PST by Gipper08
By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON
Embattled Rep. Tom DeLay decided Saturday to give up his post as House majority leader, clearing the way for new leadership elections among House Republicans eager to shed the taint of scandal, two officials said.
These officials said DeLay, R-Texas, was preparing a letter informing fellow House Republicans of his decision. These officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt the formal announcement.
DeLay is battling campaign finance charges in Texas and was forced to step aside temporarily as majority leader last fall after he was charged in his home state. He has consistently maintained his innocence and said he intended to resume his leadership post once cleared.
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.
This is a joke right?
That's too bad. I hope he comes back in '08.
The Dems are a threat.
The RINOs are a liability.
Alito will shine some lite on this pretty soon.
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?
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.
I believe that Flake was once the director or some kind of official of the libertarian Goldwater Institute in Phoenix.
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.
Way to encourage the volunteers, raise their morale, and work for the best election outcome...... /sarcasm
Exactly. Well, maybe understated, but exactly.
Never count Tom out.
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.
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.
He was just too close to Abramoff, and thats not good for Delay's future in politics.
"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????
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.
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