Editorial, report spell new troubles for DeLay

[Judi Lynn]

March 28, 2005, 10:36PM

Editorial, report spell new troubles for DeLay
He's challenged on ethics, position on life support
By MICHAEL HEDGES and SAMANTHA LEVINE
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - A scathing rebuke in a national newspaper with a strongly conservative editorial page and a report that his family had ended life support for his father created fresh troubles for Tom DeLay on Monday, but there were no clear signs that his core supporters were abandoning the House majority leader.

The Wall Street Journal, which in the past has quibbled with DeLay over issues, took dead aim at his ethical conduct.

" ... Mr. DeLay, who rode to power in 1994 on a wave of revulsion at the everyday ways of big government, has become the the living exemplar of some of its worst habits," the newspaper editorialized.
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The Wall Street Journal editorial again put a spotlight on DeLay's ethics. The newspaper said DeLay had once campaigned as a lawmaker who would change the way Congress did business and instead became a cash-slinging rainmaker who betrayed "the broader set of principles that brought him into office, and which, if he continues as before, sooner or later will sweep him out."
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3106524
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[paineinthearse]

1. Brad had this at 1:17PM

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001289.htm

[jmcon007]

2. don't you just hurt for him? sniff

He claims to be such a scholar when it comes to the Bible, I wonder if he understands about 'reaping and sowing"? I believe he's getting ready to have an education.

[struggle4progress]

9. It's heartbreaking.

:evilgrin:

[Erika]

3. Ah, he's just a Texas good old boy

Just like dirtbag Bush.

[truthisfreedom]

4. i find this quote entertaining: "If you've seen a chicken in the barnyard

get a peck on his head so a little blood is showing, then the other chickens all rush in and peck him to death, that is the danger for Tom DeLay right now," said Charlie Wilson, a former Democratic member of Congress from Lufkin. "He's got a little blood on his head, and sometimes that is enough to get you killed."

[Hekate]

5. It just couldn't happen to a nicer guy...

Mebbe those chickens will look at that little bit of blood and start seeing The Bug Man.

Hekate

[despairing optimist]

10. I hope DeLay doesn't give any chickens salmonella from pecking him

Poor things. As if avian flu isn't bad enough.

[anarchy1999]

6. Me thinks, me hopes, Mr Delay just might finally be in enough trouble

he can't bully his way out of. Go home to your bug business, Tom!

Cockroaches don't even deserve to die at your hand.

[charlie]

7. It took WSJ over 10 years to recognize his scummery?

He's become the living exemplar, blah de blah? Hell, he's been called The Hammer since 1994, strongarming lobbyists for cash for votes. The DeLay of the Gingrich Revolution is exactly the same DeLay of today. It's nice that the WSJ is worked up into a bit of high dudgeon over his low ethics. But save that, they can go fuck themselves.

[teryang]

8. Rhetorical night of the long knives

...pretending they give s shit abuout ethics. How quaint.

[Wapsie B]

11. Don't you worry about 'ol Tommy boy,

he'll be working in some right wing think tank after he leaves DC.

[Robbien]

12. And according to RawStory, Delay's buddy Hastert should be sharing

this spotlight

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1351109

[lovuian]

13. I think the Republicans are feeling like Tom is a crook

not a good ole boy!!!

[Robbien]

14. GOPers Know Delay is a crook because many of them share

in the spoils. It just they never thought Delay would be held accountable.