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Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 07:52:35 PM EST
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This is pretty big news. Time Magazine has an exclusive interview with Tom DeLay who says he will not run for re-election and will leave Congress hopefully by the end of May. He will make the announcement tomorrow.

Taking defiant swipes at "the left" and the press, he said he feels "liberated" and vowed to pursue an aggressive speaking and organizing campaign aimed at promoting foster care, Republican candidates and a closer connection between religion and government.

"I'm going to announce tomorrow that I'm not running for reelection and that I'm going to leave Congress,"

He still denies wrongdoing:

Asked if he had done anything illegal or immoral in public office, DeLay replied curtly, "No." Asked if he'd done anything immoral, he said with a laugh, "We're all sinners." Asked what he would do differently, he said, "Nothing."

....I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. I've never done anything in my political career for my own personal gain. You can look at my bank account and my house to understand that."

DeLay gets one small parting shot in at the Democrats. He's moving his legal residence to Alexandria, VA, so he's not eligible for re-election.

State Republican officials will then be able to name another Republican candidate to face Democrat Nick Lampson, a former House members who lost his seat in a redistricting engineered by DeLay.

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    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#1)
    by BigTex on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 08:40:28 PM EST
    Hopefully this is the death knell for Lampson's run. Here's the test for those who hate Delay. Why do you hate him? If you hate him because you disagree with his stances, that's understandable. If you hate him because he is a party, man, there is no difference between him and Lampson. Think long and hard about what you want from a candidate. If you simply want to be rid of a party man, changing Delay to Lampson is to merely change a R for a D but to keep the party man.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 08:48:47 PM EST
    SO who cares? we have a world fulling into war, and when it happens the coming third world war no one will care about old tom delay, write about real world hell of third world that bush wants you in for money and power of the one world idea. bush a guy to help you into the told slavery and a world of mass murder say something about delay and how he helped sandi to enslave millions of people, read about how bush is going to enslave you to the one world ideals. be good to each other that maybe all you will have soon.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 08:58:31 PM EST
    when will my head be cut off for the one world ideals of bush and delay?, bush/fox/bin laden the real axis of evil. fox is mussolimi bush is hitler and bin laden is saburo kurusu the special envoy of evil.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#4)
    by scarshapedstar on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 09:02:36 PM EST
    What is the sound of one shoe dropping?

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#5)
    by scarshapedstar on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 09:05:12 PM EST
    By the way, BigTex, we hate Delay because he is an ugly, corrupt SOB who makes frequent overtures to theocracy.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 09:26:27 PM EST
    I think that someone should warn DeLay about bashing the Left, he'll get sued by PPJ for trademark infringement :>)

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#7)
    by phat on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 09:55:03 PM EST
    Hip Hip Hooray! phat

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#8)
    by jondee on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 10:00:27 PM EST
    D.A - lol! I thought THE LEFT had no sense of humor.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#9)
    by roxtar on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 10:46:33 PM EST
    Hold the goddamn phone. You might wish to move to Virginia. I might wish to move to Virginia. But you and I aren't under indictment in Texas. If I was the trial judge, I'd have a little something to say about this.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 10:57:21 PM EST
    Gee, that's a shame. I'm gonna miss ya, toxic tommy. I'm over it. Who will the next nitwit be? Tommy might have difficulty pullin' the strings from prison. Who does he think he is, Vito Corleone?

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 03:24:02 AM EST
    Contrary to conventional wisdom, it looks like religion, not patriotism, is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 03:53:19 AM EST
    It's a package deal with these swine. They've made a religion out've trashing the Constitution and the Environment. As Kevin Phillips has pointed out, what the hell do they care. They figure them and a handful of repo Jews are gonna get raptured up in a few days anyhow. They'd really hate to leave any trees standing or fish in the sea for the rest of us just in case that lake of fire thing doesn't pan out right away.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#13)
    by Molly Bloom on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 05:09:05 AM EST
    Rudy's cooperating and Delay's "retiring" - I think this old blues sums it up nicely
    Another man done gone

    Another man done gone

    Another man done gone

    Down to the Parchman Farm*, got the shackles on

    *Mississippi state penitentiary

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#14)
    by DonS on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 05:10:45 AM EST
    Big Tex, who say's "Think long and hard about what you want from a candidate. If you simply want to be rid of a party man, changing Delay to Lampson is to merely change a R for a D but to keep the party man." Well, I'm hardly a party man myself -- not even very politcal in the partisan sense -- but it seems like this is the way the Dems have been getting slammed all along, by lacking party cohesion. I'm all for super duper quality in government over partisan hacks, but it only seems that people call the Dems out on that. The Repubs skate through with their steamroller approach, or have until their incompentence and scandals have begun to reach critical mass. Now if the repubs did not masquerade as so self righteous, holy, and moralistic, I might say you've got a point. But, you know, their hypocrisy sticks in my craw. And if its not hypocrisy, then we're talking ignorance and evil and I'm definitely not there. So, just for today, let's have a moratorium on the lectures how the dems should act so much better than the repubs. Let's just note how truly terrible the repubs are, and Delay is a stellar leader of the band.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#15)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 05:32:46 AM EST
    Posted by Molly Bloom April 4, 2006 06:09 AM Rudy's cooperating and Delay's "retiring" - I think this old blues sums it up nicely Another man done gone Another man done gone Another man done gone Down to the Parchman Farm*, got the shackles on Another man done gone
    I played that song in a band 35 years ago, Molly. My buddy and I just dug it out to jam on a couple of weeks ago, too. I love the blues.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#16)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 05:35:08 AM EST
    Big Tex, We want an honest candidate who'll hold the nitwit in chief accountable. You know, the opposite of toxic tommy. Everything you despise. Everything you fear.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#17)
    by Jlvngstn on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 05:46:34 AM EST
    Charlie, you mean a candidate like Hillary, Kerry or Lieberman? Tell me, please, aside from Feingold, which of these upstanding demos are keeping Bush "honest".

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#18)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 06:18:53 AM EST
    Which one of them are runnin' for Delay's spot, sport? That's what I thought. Nice try. They're all vast improvements over toxic tommy and/or shrub on any level.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#19)
    by Edger on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 06:24:59 AM EST
    TerryKindlon:
    it looks like religion, not patriotism, is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
    If DeLay has truly taken Jesus into his heart maybe he could do us all a favor and die for us too?

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#20)
    by Johnny on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 06:56:58 AM EST
    "I refuse to allow liberal Democrats an opportunity to steal this seat with negative personal campaign," DeLay said in a videotaped statement released after he informed House Republican leaders of his decision on Monday.
    LMAO what a tool... I can't believe after supporting the Swift Boat party, he has the gall to pull that crap.
    "My love for the Republican Party has played no small part in this decision," he said, adding he wanted a House race in his district based on issues "not a campaign focused solely as a referendum on me."
    Sorry Tommy, if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Chickensh!t.
    "Getting beat up by the national media and the Houston Chronicle has taken its toll," DeLay said. "It's polarized my district, you either love me or hate me. Thank God there are still more that love me."
    The gods have nothing to do with it Tommy... Typical wrong-wingerism to assume the gods have taken a personal interest in his backwards little part of the world... The unspoken assumption of course, is that the gods are not on the side of those who do not "love" him... What a tool...

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#21)
    by Jlvngstn on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 07:58:22 AM EST
    Charlie, let me get this straight. It is the responsibility of a republican from Texas to "keep the president honest" and since none of the dems from another state are running in the election, they are not obligated to keep the president honest? I am not sure but I think you and BB are sharing the same brain, which of course is really unfortunate because there does not seem to be enough intellect or intellectual honesty to fill a teacup between the two of you. I did not, do not, could not like Tom Delay. He should have stepped down prior to raising all that money to use for his defense. I am glad he stepped down and say good riddance. Do you have a valid argument on the topic or are you just flapping your gums hoping someone will pay attention to you? When the leadership of the democratic party demonstrates some leadership, perhaps you will have an argument, but from where I am sitting complicity is the best word to describe them, Feingold notwithstanding.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#23)
    by jondee on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 09:13:13 AM EST
    ppj - "Attacks based on politics." That description would cover a good 50% of your posts on this site at least. And Im willing to bet that the last demo you voted for was LBJ.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#24)
    by jondee on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 09:30:42 AM EST
    "the party that I knew and voted for in election after election continues to ignore our lack of national health care..etc,etc." - So your way of standing by the courage of your convictions is to embrace, and go to the wall for the faction whose idea progress in these areas is to unravel anything positive thats been achieved since the 20s. All because kicking commie and A-rab butt is a concern that overrides everything else.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#26)
    by Jlvngstn on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 09:40:48 AM EST
    Jim, I agree with most of your post although an argument can be made that the majority party influences most of the legislation that is passed. The question is, is the democratic party no longer in the majority because they are ignoring those issues? I completely disagree with the defense argument, they are all approving 500 billion a year in defense and I have not heard one demo request a significant reduction in defense spending. What concerns me most about the left is the lack of leadership and a national platform. While I think it is great to have a plethora of opinions in the party it is more important to compromise on some issues for the greater good of the party. I don't see it happening nor do I see a clear and decisive leader in the party. I think this blog demonstrates the problems the party is faced with as there is a tremendous amount of time spent on pointing out the idiocy of the current administration without substantive data on how to reform. Nearly every demo voted for the war and there is neery a day that passes when we discuss the complicity of the democratic party. If the people want an answer to a national h/c system, social security, taxes etc, build a party platform around the issues and bring solutions to the table. Bush cannot run for reelection so who cares? A major spending campaign on the democratic national strategy for the direction of this country with specifics would resonate with the American people. Bush bashing (although it can be fun) serves no purpose other than to try to win people over with negative politics. I am not the only left leaning libertarian that refuses to vote for a republican lite candidate. I am not the only libertarian that can see some promise in some government run programs. I would like to see a plan that addresses the issues at the roots of the democratic party instead of the tired "we are better because Bush is an idiot" platform they are running now. Despite the negative campaigns, George Bush is confident, relaxed and still in power. His approval rating is way down, but so what? He is a second term president and the senate/house do not have to follow the company line verbatim any longer and that hampers Bush's approval rating to a far greater degree than the Bush bashing without revealing a national plan. I still would not, could not vote for Bush under any circumstances, but that was no where enough to get me to vote for Kerry. I do not subscribe to the lesser of 2 evils theory. Give me a candidate that addresses the issues at the root of the democratic party or I will continue to vote libertarian.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#27)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 09:43:58 AM EST
    I have a fun potential scenario about Delay. He's agreed to take one for the team. Everyone points the finger at him. His lawyers drag the trial out for a year and half and after he's convicted W pardons him on his last day in office. Delay serves 3 mos time total. That is of course wild speculation.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#28)
    by BigTex on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 10:04:49 AM EST
    Big Tex, We want an honest candidate who'll hold the nitwit in chief accountable. You know, the opposite of toxic tommy. Everything you despise. Everything you fear.
    So Nick as a Catholic personally I oppose abortion but have to vote with my party Lampson would be any better in the honesty department? The two are different sides, but minted on the same coin. That makes him worse than Kerry and Bush in my book. At least Kerry had the integrety to say he didn't have a problem with abortion and was voting his conscience. At least Bush thinks he is doing what is in the best interest of the country vis a vis terrorism. Rational people can disagree about what is the best course of action, but it takes an espically spineless person to say I believe A but will vote B because my party wants me to.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#29)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 10:20:27 AM EST
    charlie writes:
    I don't give a damn what you wrote on Delay last week let alone last year.
    charlie, archives and the ability to link to them are useful in establishing the fact that you haven't changed your positions. It is called creditability. My comments re the social issues I described have been the same since day one, as have the national defense position. You see, reasonable people can differ, and in the world that counts, the real world, people can come together and get real things done. Things that might not 100% satisfy any of us, but are a start.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#30)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 10:31:08 AM EST
    charlie, archives and the ability to link to them are useful in establishing the fact that you haven't changed your positions. It is called creditability. My comments re the social issues I described have been the same since day one, as have the national defense position. You see, reasonable people can differ, and in the world that counts, the real world, people can come together and get real
    Is that so? First of all, the word is credibility and what does any of this have to do with you?

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#31)
    by glanton on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 11:40:00 AM EST
    Speaking of the almighty link, check this threead out if you want to address Jim's challenge to "provide any links in which I have "defended" him." "Ta ta."

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#32)
    by glanton on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 11:42:43 AM EST
    Oops again, stuctural diffculties abound. Here's the thread I meant to link

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#33)
    by glanton on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 11:52:54 AM EST
    Now Jim, even as I post that link to evince your defense of Delay, I know that you will try to spin your comments as something other than what they are. That's what you do. But just like the threads on Janny Brown and Prissy Owens, on Bush, on Roberts and Alito, where you attack the critics of these haters... well, so too do you behave like the Fox network you so admire, re Delay. Stay alert, baby.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#34)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 01:03:21 PM EST
    deleted

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#25)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 01:10:15 PM EST
    insults deleted

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#35)
    by Slado on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 01:10:51 PM EST
    Delay dropping out is bad news for Dem's. Repubs will keep the seat and now Delay is no longer a posterboy for the "culture of coruption". Just being objective. Too bad for Delay but the hammers time has come and gone.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#22)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 01:12:11 PM EST
    charlie - About a year ago, in one of the threads about DeLay I noted that the thing to do was investigate, charge, indict, try him and if convicted punish him. Since you weren't around then, and since you seem to think that if it didn't happen when you were present, it didn't happen. That is typical for most juveniles. So if you think that I have been a big defender of DeLay, you are wrong. Link to TalkLeft archives. Comment date/time 4-18-05, 7:05PM
    In the meantime, as I have commented time and again, if DeLay has done something, charge and try him. In the meantime, don't expect any respect for the continual politcally based attacks on him.
    In fact, I invite you to provide any links in which I have "defended" him. I did find it strange that it took a Demo DA two, or was it three, Grand Juries to get some indictments, some of which have been dismissed already. How the remainder will turn out I do not know, nor do I especially care. But on the face of it I see nothing but pure politics. However, I will wait for the jury's verdict. If found guilty, let the system work. In the meantime I see nothing but the continuing politics of personal destruction while the Democratic Party that I knew, and voted for in election after election continues to ignore our lack of national health care, rights for gays and lesbians, a drug policy that isn't working, a tax system that makes little sense and a social security system that is fated to collapse in around 20 years. To make the collapse of the party complete it continues to foster policies and comments that are counter productive to national defense. [remainder deleted]

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#36)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 01:30:29 PM EST
    Glanton - Since you knew you had a weak argument, you made a claim and provide a link knowing that most will just accept the smear and move on. Now, the charge is I defended DeLay. Let us look at the comments I made in the link you provided.
    Posted by JimakaPPJ March 8, 2006 10:41 AM Would saying I told you so be in bad taste? Posted by JimakaPPJ March 9, 2006 09:35 AM ....In the meantime, Delay is set to be re-elected. Ta Ta.
    Let us see... I said he would win the primary, and bragged a bit. That's defending him? I said the same thing about Clinton. I then say he will be re-elected and laugh at you. That's defending him? What you have here is one statement of fact and one predication, neither of which approve of Delay. Really Glanton, you need to do much better. Ta Ta!!

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#37)
    by glanton on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 01:44:41 PM EST
    I posted the addendum to show how predictable you are. Spin, spin, spin. And always the same spin. But to proceed:
    Let us see... I said he would win the primary, and bragged a bit.
    Yes, you do that for a lawbreaking politician whose social politics you purport to disagree with. It's very strange behavior for one who "hasn't defended" that politician at all. :-0 BTW, here's another Delay thread in which you invoke Powerline, for God's sake, to dispute the veracity of the indictment. But again, you're not defending Delay. Nooooooo. Anyway, enough with the pretending; you've already descended so far into the comedic that you're just not gonna surpass expectations any longer. Look, you support Republicans. We get it. You make it clear. An occasional "gee I wish it didn't have to be this way for women and gays and the 45+ millions without health care etc....." doesn't really do much, you know.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#38)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 03:34:59 PM EST
    Glanton - You make less and less sense. A predication is not an endorsement. Quoting Powerline is now forbidden??? Tell me. Did, or did not, the Texas DA have to get multiple GJ's to get an indictment? (Hint: Yes, he did.) Glanton, I laugh and laugh at your attempts to censor people by assigning nutty claims to things they have said.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#39)
    by jondee on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 03:48:54 PM EST
    Glanton, you should know by now that Jims the kind of guy who, if you caught him doing it to a goose, would say he was just stuffing sofa pillows.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#40)
    by glanton on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 03:59:00 PM EST
    "Attempts to censor people"? Hardly, Jim. I delight in your ongoing performance, wouldn't stop it if I possibly could. The fact that it is Powerline, by the way, is not the point. The point is what is inb the Powerline link, which all people here can go to. This is not the GOP Convention, Jim. You can not make some sort of thoroughly unsubstantiated "spitball" assertion and get a round of applause for it. The fact is, your posts have sympathetic to Delay; you have questioned the motives of the indicters, you have questioned the motives and honesty of those on Talk Left who have gone after Delay. But again, you're not defending him. Right. jondee: I know it, but it's so easy shredding/exposing these ridiculous attempts at debate that I can't help myself from indulging from time to time.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#41)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 05:00:59 PM EST
    Yeah, delay dropped out because he was about to be reelected. Sure thing. He had a 22 percent favorability rating in his own poll. He wasn't comin' back from that and he didn't wanna go out with a loss. Any republican has a better shot than he does. Literally. Close your eyes, open the phone book and point. If they're a repo, they've got a better shot than delay. He needs to convert the campaign funds to legal defense funds because he's not gonna get indicted. He had about 6K left in his legal defense fund and nothin' was coming in. That got him through about 10AM on a slow day. With Rudy doing his best to keep Mrs Rudy outta Jail, he's not gonna have many slow days in his immediate future. His Federal Troubles dwarf anything Ronnie Earl has in store for him at this point, but don't take my word for it, ask Jeralyn. Read. He's in Congress 'til June. His Poster Boy/Perp Walk days ain't over yet. It should be a fun summer.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#42)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 07:19:24 PM EST
    glanton writes:
    I know it, but it's so easy shredding/exposing these ridiculous attempts at debate that I can't help myself from indulging from time to time.
    Oh? Then why not try to debate rather than making statements like, "Gasp! You quoted Powerline!" I mean, wow! That really proves I defended DeLay. And your real clincher....
    This is not the GOP Convention, Jim. You can not make some sort of thoroughly unsubstantiated "spitball" assertion and get a round of applause for it
    Gee. I didn't know that. I was waiting for Bush to show up.... And your "unsubstantiated" comment is 100% wrong. I provided quote and link, yet you deny them. I think that is improper on your part, at best. So the fact is you have proven nothing except that you have a rather limited ability to grasp what "proof" means. Now. Either prove it or quit claiming it. Because claiming something that you know is not true edges close to what polite society calls a "fib." Because what I said was:
    In the meantime, as I have commented time and again, if DeLay has done something, charge and try him. In the meantime, don't expect any respect for the continual politcally based attacks on him.
    TalkLeft Archives April 18 2005 705PM Jondee - Outside of your usual slur, can you prove anything? The answer,of course, is no. So you'll just stick with your usual whines... charlie - If you can bat 500 you can play for the St Louis Browns...

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#43)
    by glanton on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 07:51:58 PM EST
    Jim, the example you provide is no different than the examples I provided in terms of you~Delay. And any frequenter of TL knows there are tons of other examples, about as many as there are Delay threads. Surely, Jim, you will cheerfully admit that the curious will find that you have thrown your hat into the ring in several threads concerning Delay's legal problems. And your posts have been consistent: impugn the integrity of Delay's accusers, make fun of his detractors and how ineffective they are, talk about what an effective guy he is, etc. No, you never said "He didn't do anything wrong." But if you "think" that this is the only thing that qualifies of a defense of the man, then you really need to lay off drinking the battery acid. Because attacking the accuser, thou slippery snake, is a time-honored tradition in politics, and has been Delay's modus operandi from the very beginning. So. This is why you are known on TL as a defender of Delay, and of Republicans in general. No one cares how many times you've said "but oh goodness gracious I'm a social liberal"--no one cares because you are a repeat customer chiming with in Rethug talking points/distractions, and the ethos you have created is well known around here as a Republican ethos. Enjoy it.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#44)
    by aw on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 08:04:21 PM EST
    PPJ loves Delay almost as much as he loves Bush. I can tell.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#45)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 08:49:01 PM EST
    Attempts to censor people Speaking of which, here's some info you might find useful if DeLay continues to despicably violate your creative property rights in public, PPJ.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#46)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 07:33:39 AM EST
    Glanton - Again you use my position as a Social Liberal to claim things that you can not prove, and you admit it.
    No, you never said "He didn't do anything wrong." But if you "think" that this is the only thing that qualifies of a defense of the man,
    I have been stating my Social Liberal positions consistently, and yes, I have laughed at some of those who have obsessed over DeLay. I used to do the same to a guy I knew who was convinced that Oklahoma had spies who had stolen the UT football team's playbook, put drugs in their water at half time and bribed the time keeper to cheat them on the clock. Pointing out irrational actions of one side is not defending the other. It is called "commenting." Your admission that you can not prove I have defended Delay says it all. You want an echo chamber of your beliefs. That you won't get.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#47)
    by jondee on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 07:55:42 AM EST
    ppj - Thats the longest string of sour grapes Ive seen in a while. My advice, even though you never "defended Delay" is to suck it up, or, as Rupert tells his minions, assume the position and take it like a man.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#48)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 05:37:18 PM EST
    Jondee - Sour? Well pucker up and enjoy. I say again. Prove it or lose it, baby!

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#50)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 06:59:47 PM EST
    charlie - If you can bat 500 you can play for the St Louis Browns...
    Who are now in their 53rd season as the Baltimore Orioles. They've got new stationary and everything. Do try to keep up.

    Re: Tom DeLay To Announce He's Leaving Congress (none / 0) (#49)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 08:03:10 PM EST
    deleted commenter warned to not engage in namecalling, insulting or baiting other commenters. My patience is wearing very thin.

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