Tom Delay indicted in campain finance scheme
 

Just on the wire.

WASHINGTON - A Texas grand jury on Wednesday charged Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, an indictment that could force him to step down as House majority leader.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9507677/

Witch hunt or not?

No, Delay's not a witch, he's a crook...........

bahahah 'witch hunt'...too funny...

Hopefully, Mr Ethics is about to become Mrs Ethics in the Big House.

Total scumbag.

The house of "Lil W" is finally coming down. Yea Hoooooooo.

I haven't been paying attention... what's this all about?

I do not live in Texas but I seem to remember that the great state of Penn and Rhode Island have their fair share of crooked elected representatives.

People who live in glass houses should not throw rocks or so I have heard...

Also, Ronnie Earle is not actually impartial as well. He is a Democrat and has been after Delay for years now and has had more than enough time to indict him if he had evidence of any wrong doing. That said, he has also had a lot of time to cook up any evidence needed. Look here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/60minutes/main678234.shtml

JoeA

I'll wait for the trial. Too many times what you first hear is not what is brought out in trial.

You are right. RI is the mobster state. Our beloved ex mayor is in a federal pen. The mob ran providence for 40+ years...there's no hiding that!

You fail to see the big difference. I take glee in Delay being called on the carpet because he is the one obsessed (politically/publicly, anyway) with ethics/morals etc (cough: Schiavo case)

He's a f#cking hypocrite just like all the others, after all.

In summary, when the god squad/morals/ethics squad f#ck up, it is especially delicious.

From what I'v heard he is accused of using corporate donations (which can only be used for one thing or another) and used them for something else. Or they claim his campaign did, either way. Real nasty stuff indeed.

It is about a liberal witch hunt...Orchestrated by a partisan Democrat hack...Think Joe Stalin's show trials.

From a party who has a really wicked history of campaign finance violations, including taking money from the Chinese Military for top-secret ICBM technology, I find this play rather suspicious.

Right, funds saw the wrong account...That is the crime...A far cry from the traitorous campaign finance violations that Reno covered up for Clinton.

Spoken like a Godless fascist.

Sober...I agree, and if Delay is guilty of some type of "quid pro quo"...I say hang him high...Alas, this has the appearance of being a smoke-screen and witch hunt by a proven elected partisan Democrat who is using the court system as a tool to inflict political damage.

The party is power has certainly captured the moral LOW ground.

Yep

Please...Your party wrote the book on sleazy fund-raising.

Check out http://dropthehammer.org/corruption/

mmyeesss, and the democrates HATE the competition

As The Washington Post reported, last week Pelosi filed delinquent reports for three trips she herself accepted from outside sponsors. The biggie was a week-long 1999 trip to Taiwan, paid for by the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce. The tab for Pelosi and her husband: about $8,000.

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And while Pelosi bashes GOP ethics, PoliticalMoneyLine, a data firm, crunched the numbers and found that in the last five years, Democrats took 3,458 privately funded junkets, while Republicans took 2,666.



RealClearPolitics

No, just learned from Nixon.


Nixon told his aides in the summer of 1971 that "anybody who wants to be an ambassador must at least give $250,000." One future American diplomat, whom Kalmbach informed about the cost, complained, "Isn't $250,000 an awful lot of money for Costa Rica?" She was happy, though, to pay $300,000 for Luxembourg.

And Clinton getting blow jobs by Monica then lying to the entire world was very moral I suppose???

Give me a break...

JoeA

Nixon did not sell arms technology for campaign cash to an imminent enemy...Nor did he sell pardons to corporate crooks and terrorists.

So, that is how you're going to rationalize DeLay's alleged crimes. I thought you guys were against crime. Why are you trying to let him off the hook? He should be held up as an example of how the Republicans are tough on crime. Even if it's one of your own guys.

Your complaint about a witch hunt sure reminds me of the Ken Starr witch hunt. Only now it's your turn. Enjoy. SmileWavy

Dan

"Nixon did not sell arms technology for campaign cash to an imminent enemy...Nor did he sell pardons to corporate crooks and terrorists."

And exactly who has been convicted of doing those?

It is all a witch hunt when Republicans are accused, and gospel when Democrats are accused.

Keep on spinning.

Maybe not. Who really knows? But Reagan did sell arms to Iran to fund contra rebels in Nicaragua to overthrow a legitimate government. Maybe not one Reagan wanted in power, but legitimate none the less.

Dan

Delay was recently quoted as saying, in effect "there's not 1 dollar out of 2.4 trillion we can cut out of the budget", so i'll be glad to see him go. He's a crook.

The D.A. Ronnie Earle is not a partisan hack, but I'm sure Delay will try all the standard victim lines and you right wing sheeple will buy it hook line and sinker.

as a sidenote, One of the guys who works in the DA's office on this case wanted to marry my daughter.

who said anything about letting him off the hook? the humor in all of this is how the kettle suddenly thinks it's justified in attempting to call the pot black

that's funny, in reality it seems that the obverse is true

It's all just a vast left wing conspiracy.

By the way, whatever happened to the Smartest Woman in the World's own little campaign finance investigation?

(*GASP*) - How DARE you blaspheme St Reagan!

It got lost with the Rose Law firm records....and the blew dress...

I'm taking wagers on the verdict. So all "he's a crook" yippers and yappers step up:)

I'll take $100 dollar bets...speeder still owes me from the Bush win $100, so I aint taking his bets.

Swept under the rug of course...nary a peep from the press...Easier to sweep it under the rug when nobody knows about it, you see.

Janet Reno didn't see fit for an Independent Counsel for Clinton's blatant fund-raising violations...Nice having political cronies in Justice.

The Sandinistas were anything but legitimate, in fact they were not allowing free elections, intimidating the opposition and trafficking drugs...Ever since Reagan aided the Contras, they have had a Democracy, and he freed the hostages in Iran...Pure brilliance.

Ditto:)

So, sometimes deliberately thwarting Congress' specific decisions by using drug money to buy arms to help overthrow a government is "good works?" Kind of a "situational ethics" thing?

Oop. We're storry for blaspheming St Reagan.

Yo, your pants are on fire again.

In the United States, failure to resolve the crisis contributed to Ronald Reagan's defeat of Carter in the presidential election. After the election, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, successful negotiations began. On Jan. 20, 1981, the day of President Reagan's inauguration, the United States released almost $8 billion in Iranian assets and the hostages were freed after 444 days in Iranian detention; the agreement gave Iran immunity from lawsuits arising from the incident.

Nothing was done by the Reagen team.