Democrats have been publicly cheering the indictment of Tom DeLay, but are some of them secretly hoping that “The Hammer” doesn’t fall too hard? John Dickerson of Slate has a point when he says that both parties have reasons to want DeLay around.
He writes that “Democrats would have to be nuts to root for DeLay’s scalp, something many of them admit in private. He’s the best villain they’ll ever have. DeLay’s got troubles hanging from him like charm bracelets. Not only does he have the Texas mess, but he’s been knocked three times by the House ethics committee for misusing his post, and he’s been closely linked to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. At the level of personality, he positively oozes meanness, making him a perfect foil for Democrats.”
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Melissa, you picked a doozy. Putcher ear plugs in and be prepared. The fun starts right about…………………….NOW!
Mike,
I get the feeling that you’re not telling us everything. Don’t be afraid to let your posts run a bit longer than usual.
Oh, and Mike,
Unlike real conversations, you don’t have to repeat your post for fear somebody didn’t read you.
(This post created using recyhcled electrons)
Mike,
You’re an idiot!
Someone take Mike’s computer away. Please!
I find it amazing how many politicians are battling indictments in this administration?
If this corrupt politician is the man Democrats love to hate, would it be fair to say that his corrupt ethics is the very reason Republicans love him?
I had no idea that death by blogging was possible. After reading mike’s, I stand corected.
Sum1,Probably not. He’s been slammed three times by his own party.If you’re amazed that so many are indicted during this administration, look at the past ones. The previuos prez’s admin had its fair share, as did many others.Political life, by its very nature, absorbs sleeze, and there are enough sleezeballs in both parties.
Good God, I believe we have a record for the world’s longest blog. Ed, did you see this?!?! This guy makes you look speechless!
One look at the way Texans run their politics should tell us how this will turn out. It’s a circus! DeLay is to Texas what Bob Dole was to Kansas. He might be the most powerful politician in Washington. It doesn’t matter what national polls say; DeLay isn’t elected nationally. He brings home the bacon, and the voters at home like that. By election time in 06, this will all be a small footnote in history.
Is Delay a saint? No, but Ronnie Earle is on a mission from God.
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200509301738.asp
Do any of you truly believe that Earle actually has something on Delay and that this is not politically motivated?
I couldn’t bear to read all of that so I skipped it-all 3 times. I hope DeLay doesn’t go away too fast. I hope it comes to a full boil about the end of next summer, so the whole country can see what sleazeballs this administration and its supporters are. Just in time for the ‘06 elections.
Delay crushed the corrupt Texas political machine set up by Lyndon Johnson undoing the voting districts manufactured by democrats to keep them in power.
Therefore he must die.
Friends, enemies, and countrymen, I give you–the Rude Pundit on Tom Delay. And be warned–it’s rude. Probably ruder than anything most of you have ever seen. But he NAILS Delay. There is no one ruder–or better–than the Rude Pundit.
Oh, and Heckler, don’t try to ennoble Delay by turning him into the slayer of the LBJ sleze machine. Who learned the LBJ’s lessons about money and politics better than Delay?
**********************************The Rude Pundit
9/29/2005Tom DeLay Amid the Roaches:The female cockroach emits a perfume that is a siren song to male cockroaches. When she’s ready to mate, in one of the most erotic acts of the insect kingdom, the female cockroach will climb to a high point – say, the top of a steaming mountain of horseshit – and tenderly open her wings wide and, in an act of exposure and desire, release the pheremone that will bring her a bounty of males who would mate with her. The female cockroach likes her sex gentle, loving; however, the males are not so kind. Driven mad by the scent of cockroach pussy juice, they wildly, roughly fuck the female. Indeed, roach sex is one of the most crazed, if brief, bouts of fucking in the entire animal kingdom.
Scientists have finally isolated that scent, and now the ripe smell of cockroach fecundity can be used against the males. Traps can be laced with the perfume, drawing out the enlarged and throbbing males. The traps don’t work to eliminate all the roaches in an area, but, as with so many things, if one roach is drawn out, in a hotel, a church, a capital building, then surely there are thousands of more cockroaches to be found and killed.
Former exterminator Tom DeLay surely knows the potency and danger of being drawn in by the promise of a scent. He got into politics because he thought environmental regulation was hindering his business. And since that time, for DeLay, the political process has been about a grand pyramid scheme of money and power with the Hammer at the top, a Mafia-like operation where if one didn’t obey, one could expect to be crushed like a stoolie in a car compactor. As long as those under him kept the cash flowing upward, DeLay was happy to offer them protection, legislation passage, campaign cash, and, really, baskets of cookies.
All over the Internet, there’s a blogasm going on over the indictment of DeLay on a single charge of criminal conspiracy to funnel funds from his PAC to the effort to elect legislators in Texas who would them re-draw the districts of the state to favor Republicans and, thus, enlarge DeLay’s coffers in the long run. The good of this right now is the exposure of DeLay’s kingdom and, indeed, the Republican Party as the safehouse for greed, corruption, and ill will towards democracy in general. The long-term good may be the defeat of DeLayism, which, unlike Gingrichism, is not an ideology – just a desire for cash and power so you can make more cash to get more power.
While we may not get a conviction, let us relish yesterday’s delicious sight of DeLay looking like a man who had just swallowed a poison-coated termite, desperately trying to disengorge himself of the bug, attempting to destroy Ronnie Earle, a man who, if he could touch, DeLay would have had buried alive years ago. If one actually does have the “categorial and absolute” facts on one’s side, one does not need to attack the opposition with the viciousness that DeLay attacked Earle yesterday. Roy Blunt, the new House Majority Leader, is just a DeLay lackey, but let us pause and believe for a moment that the evil are punished.
Yes, Tom DeLay has smelled that roach aroma, luring him into more and more blatant acts of political depravity, and now he must pay at least some moral price for his failings, for entering the trap. If you looked deep enough into DeLay’s eyes yesterday, you understood his fantasy life, of flying onto that pile of horseshit, of sniffing all over the thorax of the female roach, who delicately closed her wings, closing off her pheremones to any other males, of rubbing her pronotum with one of his six legs before fondling her cerci, of roughly entering her roach pussy after unfolding his roach cock, of fucking away while staring at the other male roaches who answered her call but now slink away, back into the dark, dank, dirty corners.
rudepundit.blogspot.com
My computer froze!
These long “cut & paste” just kills the discussion on this topic. I think it would be better suited just to provide the link.
Topic Killers ;)
CF
To use a baseball analogy, I think Delay plays hardball but I think he’s to smart to play beanball.
I don’t think Earle has anything and I think he knows it. I think he’s just trying to affect the outcome of the mid-term elections. Time will tell.
Rudepundit sounds a little like Mark Morford.
Mike,This is a blog, not a book publisher. When you post 10 column feet of diatribe (with 2 repeats), nobody is masochistic enough to read it. Short and sweet is the idea here.
Agreed, Jed,
Mike’s post is the equivalent of spam in your mail box.
Mike, cool it, dude.
Mike, about 600mg of lithium ought to take care of your problem. Calm down.
Have some Valium!
Don’t forget Tom Delay pulled the plug on his own father while, preaching about the culture of life in the Shiavo case
Heckler,
Fair enough. I guess our respective interpretations of Delay are pretty predictable ideologically.
But for what it’s worth, Delay’s been found guilty of ethics violations by the House twice, and the foreman of the Grand Jury seems pretty sure he’s broken the law. Frankly, I don’t think Delay cares at all about the law. He’s in it all the way or not at all.
And if one compares him to LBJ, I believe the result comes up the same. Just as LBJ would use any means available to secure electoral victories, however illegal, I think the same thing will be the case for Delay. But as you say, time will tell.
Why do the Eagle Bloggers post in the early morning and not during the day? I’d like to see more daytime posting! After all, that is when I read :)
Can DeLay wear an ankle bracelet on the floor of Congress? He and Frist can get matching orange jumpsuits . . .
“if I understand the indictment correctly, he is accused of circumventing the campaign-finance laws, doing something technically legal in order to achieve an end that the state of Texas has sought to ban: routing corporate contributions to candidates for Texas office.”
http://frum.nationalreview.com/
David,That’s my understanding too, according to lawyers on both sides. He was trying to pull an Enron-type accounting scam, which may or may not be technically legal, but was definitely breaking the intent of the Texas law. As a lawmaker himself, it demonstrates his lack of regard for the law, and that’s not a wise thing to do, even if it’s found to be legal.
I know, it was certainly not a wise thing to do. To be honest I was just trying to get us back on topic.
I have no idea how that happened. I’ve got a plug-in that permits multiple clipboards and other features. It dumped its trash bin instead of the much shorter selection I had in mind. I’ll sort it out my own blog. Sorry.
Hey mike,It takes a computer to really screw things up, LOL.
Mike,No harm, no foul. Your post will be one for the record books.
Hey Sports Fans–
What DeLay did was very simple. Texas law forbids individuals from taking donations from corporations.
The corporations then gave 190,000 to the Republican National Committee, who then doled exactly 190,000 dollars back out to Texas candidates.
Essentially, it’s money laundering.
DeLay was in on the deal, hence the conspiracy charge.
I read today that the check the Texans sent to the RNC had a list with 7 names attached, all Republicans from Texas running for office. Smells funny to me.
I’d like to see this trigger Armageddon in Congress. Let’s dig up ALL the dirt, Democrat and republican. I figure republicans hold a wide majority when it comes to crooked politics…it’s their nature, but I’m sure there’s Democrats, too. If they’re dirty, let em burn.
XXX,I believe it was Robert Ingersoll who said that “The only clear criminal class in this country is congress.”As for Armageddon, all that will happen is an epidemic of fingerpointing followed by business as usual. Always has!
AHHH! At last we get to see it in print!THE ELECTRONIC FILIBUSTER.
Yeah Jed, you’re probably right, but a guy can dream……