DeLay Quietly Steps Out of the Schiavo Spotlight -NYT

Early this week, Tom DeLay assumed an uncharacteristically visible role in the Terri Schiavo case, pressing Congress to intervene, invoking God and attacking Ms. Schiavo's husband before television cameras and on the House floor. Now, with the prospect that she will be kept alive essentially dashed in the courts, he has slipped out of the spotlight.
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Still, for Mr. DeLay in particular, the decision to step forward in the first place - after weeks in which he had methodically avoided television cameras as he fended off questions about his ethics - may prove to be crucial in what could turn out to be his most difficult year in Congress. While the Schiavo case may have energized his conservative supporters, Democrats and some independent analysts say, it may also have thrust him into the national consciousness at the very moment his opponents are trying to make him a symbol of Republican excess and force another ethics investigation.

"Tom is doing everything backwards from the way I'd be inclined to do it," said one Democrat, Jim Wright, a fellow Texan who himself was forced out as speaker of the House in 1989 after failing to surmount challenges to his ethics. "He seems to want to keep hostility at an agitated level."
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It is not just Democrats who share that view. In a regular e-mail commentary he distributes, former Senator Dave Durenberger, Republican of Minnesota, wrote, "If I were a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota in 2006, I would make DeLay the issue in the campaign right now."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/politics/26delay.html?

as HANDLER of the CHIMPANZEE---

Rove has his work cut out, to pump up the poll numbers for BeezelBush.

Let him stand for reelection and make Delay THE issue nationally.

The Dems BETTER make delay the poster-boy of all things republi-CON (read: evil, excessive, butt-in-ski, intrusive, vile, unpatriotic, domestic-terrorist, ANTI-American). Let's just call it what it is, okay? For once can we do that? This shit that delay is all about is simply UNAMERICAN and UNPATRIOTIC.

We need to shackle EVERY republi-CON from those running for frickin' dog catcher on up - with this guy as though he were a pair of cement overshoes they just stepped into. Hang him around their necks.

I see posters all over:

photo of local republi-CON candidate for fill-in-the-blank-here office and the caption: Vote THIS...

next to

photo of tom delay and the caption: Get THIS

and the bush brothers photographed together, or their photos displayed side-by-side. The caption:

"They Hate Us For Our Freedoms!"

In Pennsylvania - that same collection of photos PLUS one of little ricky santorum and the same caption.

And in every other state where a republi-CON is running for reelection or for office - SAME THING.

After all, the bad guys tied Michael Dukakis to Willie Horton by showing their photos together. Howard Dean was tied to Osama in the same way. The "swifties" are trying to tie AARP to supporting gay everything and opposing our troops. Same way. Let's give 'em a taste of their own medicine. If it works for them, it can work for us. Only, in our case, it's no exaggeration. It happens to be TRUE.

He wanted the spotlight, they should shine it on him, the lying hypocrite!

HE made this mess and has to be held to account. We can't let him or BUSH slither away and remain blameless when they created this mess and distress to our country!!!

DC is too cowed by The Hammer. Dean's the only one I've seen get into an exchange with him.

I come from Boxer Rebellion Land, where we're just getting warmed up.

But especially if our reps are too cowardly to do it, it's up to us trench warriors to do it. Dirty job, alright, but somebody's gotta do it. Turn him into "Typhoid Tom."

on all of the violence this has caused.

Left of Cool

delay should be focused upon, like Clinton was, with no mercy, and tied up in knots by his own words and deeds.

"quietly steps out of" my Democratic ass.

his downfall should be made to last thru the 06 campaigns, for max effect.

imho

now that things are not going his way, he quietly steps away. What a bastard!

should be the headlines everywhere.

the fricking worm. . . (apologies to worms, etc. everywhere)


dp

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Ask Michael Schiavo. He called DeLay what he is, "a slithering snake."

Only an inbred former exterminator could have done that.

Don

let me assure you that DeLay is just as bad as Newt, and maybe even worse. The man is a lying, corrupt, vile piece of excrement, and the country will be much better off when he's voted out of office.

For someone in his predicament, it's probably not a good idea to get a lot of judges mad at you.

Let's hope it's too late for that.

Everyone "with a functioning cerebral cortex" knows Delay's MO. :puke:

well maybe not, but he has really been calling out a lot of republicans lately. He called out Gov. Tim Pawlenty R-MN for his fiscal policies - shifting state taxes onto local communities and thus assuring that local communities raise property taxes while needing to cut services...Now Tom DeLay! Very cool.

Tom, I'd say get out while the gettin's good.

of course he won't be going, but he belongs behind bars!

He skeedadled out of the firing range within FIFTEEN MINUTES and hustled onto a plane to HOUSTON. By the time the plane reached HOUSTON, the incident was over, SO Tommy got reverse-trip transportation BACK.

That's why we call him: Tom-----DePLANE!-DePLANE!--DeLAY!!!!!!!!

What a coincidence. I can't believe there are people here on DU who were defending this little prick. I ain't going to forget who they were either. I got a memory like an elephant.

:bounce:

Don

Just look over some of the threads in GD over that past week or so.

Don

You meant defended Delay back during the capitol shootings. I misunderstood.

when his history is so full of corruption, he's notorious everywhere, not just in Texas.

Molly Ivins, who has been reporting on Texas politics during much of Tom DeLay's public career, really got his number in her piece on him the other day:

He is pure slime.

For, if I understand correctly, receiving money for a book he wrote and published.

Boy did we have high standards back then.

It wasn't that he wrote and sold a book.

Charges were that 1) someone on his staff (on the gov't payroll) wrote the book and 2) he "sold" the book, often in large quanities, to various groups that desired political influence.

Wright actually wrote a book (well, maybe) saying his departure in disgrace was engineered by Reagan for Wright's peace overtures toward the Sandinistas. FWIW, I haven't heard of anyone agreeing with this explanation.

Others have opinied Wright lost support of House Democrats after he buckled to media pressure (something Republicans of today would find a quaint concept) to call for a vote on a congressional pay incease.

Let's help prove him otherwise. I say send the story about Sun (the little boy in Texas who had the plug pulled against his mother's wishes) might be a story that needs to get out there right about now. The hypocrisy of this man knows no bounds, let's get the word circulated, then keep talking about all the other ethics violations that this circus has been designed to get off the front burner. Delay must go. He is such an evil little man.

He was so involved in the Schiavo case, I forgot that he wasn't from Florida!

He doesn't care about Terri.

He doesn't care about the issue.

He doesn't care about you.

He just knows an opportunity to exploit IDIOTS LIKE YOU for political gain when he sees one.

Yeah. Republican politicians. So loyal. So caring. So trustworthy.

Idiots.

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....Leaders of social conservatism commend Mr. DeLay's determination in pressing the Schiavo bill and say it reflects a longtime but occasionally unrecognized commitment to issues favoring life.

"He doesn't go around crowing about it," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, who worked with Mr. DeLay to produce a bill. "I don't think others have spoken enough about the work that he has done."

"Leaders of social conservatism commend Mr. DeLay's determination in pressing the Schiavo bill and say it reflects a longtime but occasionally unrecognized commitment to issues favoring life.

"He doesn't go around crowing about it," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, who worked with Mr. DeLay to produce a bill. "I don't think others have spoken enough about the work that he has done.""

Who is behind DELAY? Find the answers and we can bring this corruption down. It is possible.

On edit:

The rest of you in Texas, along with me can decide now, do we let the last 40-50 years just ride or are you ready to stand up, as Texans should and would do?

I confess, I'm lost. I do know about the passion here though.

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I think the correct word is "Slinks" in this particular case--just like the snake he truly is.

They scurry back under the floorboards.

Not surprising -- but we've seen that big, ugly sumbitch, and we've got our shoe off ready to splatter the bastard when he (inevitably) comes out again.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3103710

"WASHINGTON — Early this week, Tom DeLay assumed an uncharacteristically visible role in the Terri Schiavo case, pressing Congress to intervene, invoking God and attacking Schiavo's husband before television cameras and on the House floor. Now, with the prospects of any intervention essentially dashed in the courts, he has slipped out of the spotlight."

"DeLay, the House majority leader, is not alone. Republican responses, including those of President Bush and Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, have become muted in the face of the legal setbacks and of polls that show overwhelming disapproval of congressional intervention as well as a perception among the public that lawmakers attempting it were motivated by politics. A CBS News poll released Thursday found that 82 percent of respondents believed that the president and Congress should stay out of the case, while 13 percent thought they should intervene."

""Tom is doing everything backwards from the way I'd be inclined to do it," said one Democrat, Jim Wright, a fellow Texan who himself was forced out as speaker of the House in 1989 after failing to surmount challenges to his ethics and business dealings. "He seems to want to keep hostility at an agitated level.""

""The public is beginning to sense a whiff of extremism in the Republican leadership in the House and the Senate," said Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "If it continues, it could prove very detrimental to them and good for us.""

My opinion: We should not let him go quietly, the way he'd like to.

From NY Times

WASHINGTON, Published March 26th 2005 - Early this week, Tom DeLay assumed an uncharacteristically visible role in the Terri Schiavo case, pressing Congress to intervene, invoking God and attacking Ms. Schiavo's husband before television cameras and on the House floor. Now, with the prospect that she will be kept alive essentially dashed in the courts, he has slipped out of the spotlight.

Mr. DeLay, the House majority leader, is not alone. Republican responses, including those of President Bush and Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, have become muted in the face of the legal setbacks and of polls that show overwhelming disapproval of Congressional intervention, as well as a perception among the public that lawmakers trying it were motivated by politics. A CBS News poll released Thursday found that 82 percent of respondents believed that the president and Congress should stay out of the case, while 13 percent thought they should intervene.

Republican Congressional officials say the lower profile is partly just a reflection of the fact that Congress, having already returned once to enact a law that fought Ms. Schiavo's death, has again departed Washington for the Easter recess. It is also, they say, a gesture of respect to a dying woman and her family, rather than an accommodation to politics.

Still, for Mr. DeLay in particular, the decision to step forward in the first place - after weeks in which he had methodically avoided television cameras as he fended off questions about his ethics - may prove to be crucial in what could turn out to be his most difficult year in Congress. While the Schiavo case may have energized his conservative supporters, Democrats and some independent analysts say, it may also have thrust him into the national consciousness at the very moment his opponents are trying to make him a symbol of Republican excess and force another ethics investigation.

Full story at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/politics/26delay.html

Along with the rest of the slander crew.

Because Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong Did

:headbang:
rocknation

SOB that stated on the House floor that Terri Schaivo was "LUCID" Well hell, Websters defines "LUCID" as "mentally sound, rational" Now I wonder how DeLay determinded this. Did she sit up in her bed and start discussing what an asshole he is?

Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who’s there

Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer

Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver

Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal jesus...

Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer

I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver
Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal jesus
Reach out and touch faith

:headbang:
rocknation

A year before Terri's eating disorder-related heart failure, DeLay pulled the plug on his father!



:headbang:
rocknation

Which begs the question....is he as stupid as he is corrupt, cynical, and hypocritical? If his Party doesn't force is resignation over this, I'll be amazed.

I kinda hope he sticks around, though.....he's gonna big a big help in sweeping Republicans out of Congress in 2006.

...Ah, sometimes the news cycle DOES come full circle! :D

Both versions are among my favorite juke box picks.

We're not quite done with you yet.

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:nuke:

to go back under that rock that he crawled out from under. x(

Words from another South Texan,

<< If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. >>

Lyndon B. Johnson

Don't let this crooked bastard escape this time.

that is all