Comments on: DeLay In Hot Water After Buddies Indicted? http://donklephant.com/2005/09/14/delays-friends-are-in-hot-water/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:07:11 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Callimachus http://donklephant.com/2005/09/14/delays-friends-are-in-hot-water/comment-page-1/#comment-2210 Callimachus Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:34:41 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/09/14/delays-friends-are-in-hot-water/#comment-2210 As a moderate, secular Republican, I have no love for DeLay. I'd like Congress better if he wasn't in it. But he's a survivor, so don't count on him getting the heave-ho any time soon. As a moderate, secular Republican, I have no love for DeLay. I’d like Congress better if he wasn’t in it. But he’s a survivor, so don’t count on him getting the heave-ho any time soon.

]]> By: Lonely Federalist http://donklephant.com/2005/09/14/delays-friends-are-in-hot-water/comment-page-1/#comment-2198 Lonely Federalist Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:30:31 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/09/14/delays-friends-are-in-hot-water/#comment-2198 I've always been sorta' neutral on Tom Delay...I've never been quite sure whether he's a) the Donks' Boogeyman du jour or b) a total corrupt sleazeball who's terribly good at covering his tracks. He very well could be a everything he's accused of, or he could be a pillar of political virtue in a sea of pigs, splattered with collateral feces. Being as I don't have the resources to investigate the guy myself, I'm just left frustrated. I would disagree, however, with your assessment that folks don't prosecute targets for political reasons, even knowing the prosecution will fail to convict or outright get thrown out. Kay Bailey Hutchison would disagree with you as well, I'd warrant. Jessie Jackson isn't the only guy in the world who practices that monkey-poo-slinging form of political kung-fu. All that being said, there's plenty of reasons for Delay to lose his job. He doesn't need to break the law to be a crook. Even after Exhibit A of Pork Kills (ie, Katrina), Tom Delay still seems to be wallowing in it. His comments in the following article, about how "efficiently" the government is running, is near criminal in itself. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050914-120153-3878r.htm I’ve always been sorta’ neutral on Tom Delay…I’ve never been quite sure whether he’s a) the Donks’ Boogeyman du jour or b) a total corrupt sleazeball who’s terribly good at covering his tracks. He very well could be a everything he’s accused of, or he could be a pillar of political virtue in a sea of pigs, splattered with collateral feces.

Being as I don’t have the resources to investigate the guy myself, I’m just left frustrated. I would disagree, however, with your assessment that folks don’t prosecute targets for political reasons, even knowing the prosecution will fail to convict or outright get thrown out. Kay Bailey Hutchison would disagree with you as well, I’d warrant. Jessie Jackson isn’t the only guy in the world who practices that monkey-poo-slinging form of political kung-fu.

All that being said, there’s plenty of reasons for Delay to lose his job. He doesn’t need to break the law to be a crook. Even after Exhibit A of Pork Kills (ie, Katrina), Tom Delay still seems to be wallowing in it. His comments in the following article, about how “efficiently” the government is running, is near criminal in itself.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050914-120153-3878r.htm

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