The cackling hen on the right have proved once again that they will do whatever it takes to direct responsibility away from them. The latest example is the indictment of now-former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). This prick has been charged with several ethics violations (you can read about them on DailyKos or any other liberal blog. Nevertheless, the jagoffs at RedState and that wench Ann Coulter defend DeLay with no shame. They claim that allowing the left to bring down DeLay will indicate that we can take anyone down without a fight. The idiots at Blogs for Bush even declared civil war against the left. Can we really be surprised at these radicals? Oh boy, I can't wait for '06!
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Tom DeLay
Many people do not understand the reasons why Tom DeLay is under indictment. I will attempt to provide a brief history into this subject.
Before the 2002 Texas congressional elections, Tom DeLay accepted contributions to his political action committee in D.C. from corporations. He then filtered that money to the GOP, who then forwarded these funds to various republican state congressional candidates. In the State of Texas, it is illegal for political candidates to accept campaign contributions from corporations. After the GOP retained control of the Texas congress (and added to the majority), they were handed a state redistricting plan from DeLay. The redistricting plan carved the state up in a way that would take many democratic districts and hand them over to the GOP after the following election. This would dramatically alter the state's representation in D.C. The democrats in the state congress refused to accept the republican hijacking of the U.S. Congress, so they piled into a private jet and flew to Oklahoma before they were scheduled to vote on the redistricting plan. In a statement by the Texas Democrats, they explain why they left the state:
"We did not choose our path, Tom Delay did. We are ready to stand on the House floor and work day and night to deal with real issues facing Texas families. At a time when we are told there is no time to deal with school finance, and when we must still resolve issues like the state budget crisis and insurance reform, the fact that an outrageous partisan power grab sits atop the House calendar is unconscionable."
Once DeLay found out what the Dems were doing, he began making phone calls to the DHS, the FAA, and the Texas DPS. A representative from the FAA assisted DeLay with tracking the Dems down in Oklahoma. By the way, it is against federal law to use federal executive departments for political gains. The Dems finally had to give in and allow a vote.
So what we have now is DeLay and his lawyer condemning the prosecutor and the judge, instead of discussing the actual issues. Today DeLay's lawyer actually demanded a new judge to hear the case, because the sitting judge once donated money to MoveOn.org, who is selling DeLay mug shot t-shirts. Well, if the judge was selling mug shot t-shirts, they may have a valid argument, but the judge is not selling t-shirts and come to find out, MoveOn.org is not selling t-shirts. Did the DeLay camp fabricate this statement? These people need to be in jail!
BigNewDay
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