the very voters he picked to be in his district, no less.

Chickenshit Tommy.

Finally we are rid of this insufferable, vile, malignant c**t.

http://mydd.com/comments/2005/4/11/13361 3/449/3#3

DeLay must be in VERY deep legal doo-doo. There's no other way to read it. The best part of his statement was when he said that the race had become a referendum on him and that's why he was dropping out. 'scuse me, but I thought that's what elections were, i.e., a referendum on people. What a cheesy liar he is.

What I'm wondering about are those rumors about DeLay being vulnerable to a charge of conspiracy to commit murder. There have been some stories to that effect with the Florida casino deal that Abramoff was involved in. Wouldn't that be a knee-slapper if it were true, though!

This has far less to do with the voters of TX-22 and far more to do with the federal prosecutors closing in on him as "Representative #2."  My bet is that it's only a matter of time at this point before Ed Buckham turns on him and DeLay faces a federal indictment.

Did anyone notice in DeLay's comments on internal polling results that he can't count?  He said that they showed that he would just barely win and that they were about 50-50 between him and Lampson.  Now we know that he, Lampson, and independent candidate Stockman are in the general election, and that Stockman is and will attract some support.  So... if 50+50=100, where is the support for Stockman?  Maybe DeLay is refusing to publicly acknowledge that over 50% will not vote for him in November but will vote instead for Lampson or Stockman.  So he rationalizes by only focusing on Lampson and himself.  Pathetic.

Let's spin this for what it actually is: the actions of a man who refuses as an elected official to live up to his obligations to his country, his government, and his constituents by fulfilling his term in office.  Instead he is engaging in this callous disregard for his responsibilities so that he can perpetuate power for the Repubs and wingnuts.  Let's take his arraignment photo and make him the poster child for Republican irresponsibility and lack of commitment.

if you think this fixes the real problem..
check this out..

Old habits die hard. Very hard. One of the important parts of the Senate's lobbying reform bill was to curb the practice of adding pork barrel projects to bills, projects that had not been considered by the House or Senate.

An amendment was offered by Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) that would allow lawmakers to remove such language. But that amendment was deemed not appropriate. So Ensign and his colleagues came up with another strategy.

They would have the Senate managers of the bill insert that clarification in conference with the House -- even though neither the House nor Senate had ever acted on it

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its nice that delay is no longer there but I suspect the GOP is just trying to keep the dems from winning, its their standard strategy when they're going to lose - "salted earth"

all the while, in the background, the lobbyists are still out of control.

The funny thing about DeLay is that he seems to have never sown together a real line of succession behind him.

Hastert is a hack at best.

Boehner is DeLay lite.  Very lite.

Dreir is looking dead in the water after being bumped from the job of Majority Leader.

Rove doesn't seem like he could handle the job, because he has too much baggage pimping dead deals for Bush.  

Is there anyone really that materially and personally strong to replace the Bugman as the Hammer in the GOP?

If so, where is this person and how to we squash that person early?

the most telling aspect of this little drama is that the right wingers almost always use faux news for these kind of things, but delay chose tweety instead. could it be that the wingnuts   see tweety as an extension of faux news.

Another man done gone
Another man done gone
Another man done gone
Down to the Parchman Farm, with all the shackles on

Old blues,  author unknown

Isn't this just one more example of Republicans subverting the will of the voters?

The notion of the national party machine stepping in to "save the voters from themselves". It resonates with all the other executive arrogant/abuse of power/congressional acquiesence issues to which the electorate is responding

So, Delay basically rejects the choice of Texas Republican voters.

"We were with the voter before we were against them"

And Katherine Harris is being pressured to do much the same thing. If she does, that should definitely be framed by the Dems as a part of a Republican "50-state-strategy-to-subvert-the-will-- of-the-electorate-to-maintain-the-status -quo".

Aren't democrats basically campaigning for a freely elected divided federal government in Nov '06. "Return to Gridlock" may not make the best bumper sticker slogan, but isn't that what you are are selling for '06?

Here's the thing, should we be happy he dropped out? I kinda think everything would have been easier with him around, both in the district and nationally.  What do you think?

Didn't Dick Armey and Phil Gramm do a similar bunk in 2002?