Justice Delay-ed.........NO MORE!

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Tom DeLay's war on American democracy--which included not just radical gerrymandering of Congressional districts and the formalization of pay-to-play policy-making in Washington but the crude manipulation of the recount that made George Bush President--is now coming to a close.


Under indictment, forced from the House leadership by scandal and faced with the prospect of defeat in November, DeLay has signaled that he will quit the House of Representatives.

And, not a MOMENT to soon!

GOOD RIDDANCE!

When they write the history of this dark passage in the American story it will record that no political figure fought harder or longer to dismantle traditions of compromise and cooperation in Congress than DeLay, a man who targeted those with whom he disagreed as zealously as he had once gone after the vermin (of which he himself became) that he chased in his previous career as an exterminator.


As far as DeLay was concerned, the niceties and good 'manners' of democracy were a cruel impediment to his new career path. So he went to war with the process itself on behalf of his own political advancement--and that of the paymasters in the industries he served (remember Jack Abramoff?) more diligently than his own Texas constituents, and his supposed own conservative ideology or his Republican Party. What a fine example of this 'new' brand of compassionate CONservatisim he was.


Tom Delay's announcement is just the beginning of the reckoning of the Republican culture of corruption that has gripped Washington for too long.


From DeLay and Jack Abramoff to Scooter Libby, to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to Duke Cunningham, to Bob Ney, to David Safavian, the list of goes on and on. And it's obvious that these unscrupulous and corrupt individuals day of reckoning is finally upon us!

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No comments in support of DEspicable DElay???

I don't blame y'all, there ain't much of a DEfense for this jerk!!!!

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And one more thing...........(actually several)!

No damn wonder Delay decided to conviently announce his 'resignation' this week.

You know that things aren't lookin' good when your Congressman starts being referred to as "Representative #2" by federal prosecutors. Especially when Bob Ney is #1.


In a lead story in sevearl national newspapers, it appears that federal prosecutors were very careful to insure that Tom DeLay can't hide behind the same "legal technicality" (their phrase, not mine) that his good buddy Ralph Reed did.

"By using conspiracy statutes against Abramoff and the two ex-DeLay aides, prosecutors have been able to use an umbrella approach to any crime committed by the trio without fear of being curbed by a statute of limitations ."...end quote.

and later in the same article ...

"Another potentially critical element to the Abramoff and Tony Rudy pleas, as related to DeLay, is that their criminal conspiracies begin in 1997 ? just as DeLay and Abramoff?s professional relationship went global .".....end quote.

It appears that no one else caught this little nuance by the Feds.


Now DeLay is trying to claim he really wasn't all that close to Tony Rudy either. DeLay is starting to resemble the Madam of a Whorehouse claiming that she had no idea what was going on upstairs, and she's just shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that the girls were involved in hanky panky. As far as she knows, the girls just go upstairs and bring back money. Hummmm .... just like things in Delays' congressional office.


Thought I'd pen a little 'ditty' to celebrate his demise............


This was Tom DeLay,
Who built the machine
That redrew the districts
And raised the green,
That decided the races
That claimed the new seats,
That made the new friends
That owned luxury suites,
That held big galas
That brought in many a donation
That in the end brought his own ruination!


Last week Delay had the aduacity to invoke the "glory of God" as he urged religious conservatives to stand against an American culture he described as hostile to Christianity.


No, Tom, we're not hostile to Christianity. We're hostile to cigar-smokin', charity-siphonin', money-greedin', insider-tradin', lying and cheatin blasted hypocrites whose middle name should be Elmer Gantry. You, Mr. DeLay, are the hostile one among us.


Delay has wrapped himrself in the flag, the Bible, little children, and hot-shot criminal defense lawyers .... what is left for this jerk to hide behind?


I'm sure he'll find something.