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Dude, those guys are all like that. I remember thinking the same thing about some of the crap Gingrich used to spew when he wasn’t busy having sex on his Capitol Hill office desk.

I literally cracked up when I saw that headline on Drudge this morning. It’s right up there with Clinton calling for respect for women or Nixon talking about integrity in government.

Fortunately, among politicians we are allowed to critique the messanger as well as the message.

Another who let the ‘power’ go to his head?
He is one I wouldn’t mind seeing gone.
Of course there are a lot of them that we all would like to see start a new profession.

V. Edward:
“Has the man no integrity at all, has he no ethics, no moral compass guiding his pathetic little life?”

Clearly not, nor has he the least smidgen of shame or embarrassment either!

“How can a man who professes to know and love God be so far from the shadow of his teachings? How shallow, vapid, and pathetic a man. I didn’t think it possible to feel more distain for Delay, but…”

Actually, V. Edward, lately I’ve come to think that the heavy irony of this shameless religious posturing is HILARIOUS!
And I’m beginning to believe he should be kept in place as long as possible — because the insane level of his hypocrisy can only continue to severely wound the GOP in ‘06.
Delay’s “piousness” brings to my mind something Adalai Stevenson once said about the Republican’s (I’m going to paraphase since I don’t feel like looking it up)— that they’re so hypocritical, they’d cut down a redwood tree just to mount the stump to make a speech for conservation! :^D

As much as we would drother’, DeLay ain’t going anywhere until 2006. That gives him another year to redistrict his district into a long sliver from Houston to ElPaso encompassing the bible belt ranchers, who would never turn their vote away from a great hero like Mr. Delay. The ‘hammer’ may be around destroying the united in the “United States” for many more years to come.

I’ve been seeing more and more articles by pundit “strategists” urging Democrats to make going after corruption a centerpiece.

As somebody in The Nation recently put it: Americans expect corruption from their politicians, but every once in a while it gets so bad that somebody needs to roll up their sleeves and clean out the stables. We may have hit that threshold with DeLay.

As much as I’d like to see DeLay fester till the 2006 Mid Terms David, there’s just too much evidence of his reckless arrogance that will find him under indictment, much sooner.

The Republicans are trying to deceive us into thinking that these embarrassing revelations of DeLay junkets being footed by indicted lobbyists, are at the heart of the evidence against him. When the ‘devil in the details’ lie with the abundant, documented allegations back in Texas, of blatant violations of campaign contribution and finance laws. The Daily DeLay is a good place to start.

Here’s an interesting document issued by House Democrats, “Broken Promises: The Death of Deliberative Democracy, A Congressional Report on the Unprecedented Erosion of the Democratic Process in the 108th Congress”

It “examines in detail how, over the past two years, the Republican leadership ignored the House Rules and the basic standards of legislative fairness and regular order with an impunity that is unprecedented in the history of the House of Representatives.”

Here’s an article last week in the Houston Chronicle that puts the Delay thing in perspective; it’s the Texas Republicans (mostly Democrats in the 80’s) who will take Delay out.

“Forgive me father (constituency) for I have sinned (been caught)”

They bought it when Jimmy Swaggert cried on TV for forgiveness of adultery with a prostitute. Now they’ll buy it when the “Hammer” cries “I aimed too high, but it was for the greater glory!”

Dave, there’s nothing a Christian loves more than to see a sinner repent. Welcome home, prodigal son. All is forgiven.