It's Getting Dirty Now
I never liked Delay, and detest the the things that are being revealed about him. While I do believe he kept on the fine line of legality, He pushed the edge always keeping legal, but barely so. His morality is is not to be questioned at this point. He has none, its all about winning. He has paid his wife and family handsomely from the coffers of the well intended. Its a shame really, Tom has done some great things, but he has proven to us that he isn't above greed, and we expect more from our leaders, and even more from the leaders of our leaders. One may argue that that the democrats behave in much the same way, and that Toms ventures aren't any different than theirs, but we expect more from our conservative Republicans, and we threw out the Democrats, from the House the Senate and the Presidency, because we believed they were morally corrupt. Power corupts, and now that the Republicans have taken control they are almost as bad. Term Limits, Smaller Goverment, and Morality are not relevent topics any more.Yet, the left has proven they are incapable of rising above all the morally bankrupt. The New York Times : attempted to bribe Livingstone to critisize Delay. To hopefully start an avalanche of disaproval amomg fellow Republicans. The Republicans are sticking with Delay, they dont want their own corruption to show through.
On March 24, former Congressman Bob Livingston was sent an e-mail by a New York Times editorial page staffer suggesting he write an op-ed essay. Would Livingston, who in 1998 gave up certain elevation to be House speaker because of a sexual affair, write about how Majority Leader Tom DeLay should now act under fire? In a subsequent conversation, it was made clear the Times wanted the prominent Republican to say DeLay should step aside for the good of the party.
Livingston in effect declined by responding that if he wrote anything for the Times, it would be pro-DeLay. But this remarkable case of that august newspaper fishing for an op-ed piece makes it appear part of a calculated campaign to bring down the single most powerful Republican in Congress. The Democratic establishment and left-wing activists have targeted DeLay as the way to end a decade of Republican control of the House.
Its a sad state of affairs.
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I have a post here -- http://objectivejustice.blogspot.com/2005/04/why-i-respect-delay.html -- that explains why a respect DeLay even though he is utterly wrong on the issue of the judiciary.
As much as I hate his politics, you got to give him credit for not pretending to be something he isn't.
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