Maybe DeLay is finally going down after all?

[AntiCoup2K4]

When the neocons themselves (AEI) are turning against him, things aren't looking too good for the Bugman.

Only thing wrong with this is who they have in mind to replace him. Who could actually be worse?

[benburch]

1. Delay "going down"?

I didn't even know he knew Jeff Gannon!

[AntiCoup2K4]

3. I didn't either, but what the Hell - spread the rumor!

What better way then to get the Texas GOP to dump him :evilgrin:

[me b zola]

15. Delay has a mandate!

eom

[msongs]

2. special election required??? maybe that guy morrison will

win the seat, the dem got a hefty percentage of votes against delay last november....first time delay has had to spend money against competetition in years, I recall.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/liberaltshirts.htm

[Warpy]

4. Not only that, but the redistricting that he committed felonies to get

has greatly increased the number of Democrats in his own district.

So instead of tolerating tame Dems in the state lege, he had to get greedy and stuff more pubbies in there, and it may cost him his seat should he remain out of prison until 2006.

The irony of that is just too delicious to contemplate.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Delay squashed?

Squished? Smacked? Swatted? Oh, I love seeing nasty insects EXTERMINATED.

[KingoftheJungle]

6. Check out this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3230193&mesg_id=3230193

Who is really behind Delay, and why they can afford to let him take the fall. Once Delay is done, we must trace the corruption back to the monster that created him! They can afford fall guys like Delay and Feeney, but we cannot afford to let them get away with it.

[FreedomAngel82]

16. I wonder who created him too

It would be kind of funny if it was Bush41 or Rove.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

22. kick

[MadisonProgressive]

7. He's like a Mafia Don

[Osamasux]

8. In NJ most Repubs are REALLY pissed about Chris Smith

losing his House Veterans' Affairs Committee chair because of DeLay. Smith had held that post for over a decade I believe. Smith would not toe DeLay's line, so DeLay pulled the rug out from under him and installed Steve Buyer of Indiana.

That almost never happens to a sitting chair. Now Republican town councils around the state are passing resolutions asking for him Smith to be restored to the chair. I love it when they fight each other.

Maybe all the party workers DeLay has annoyed are finally waking up and doing something about it. Also, he's made himself a lightning rod and they don't want to go down with him. I wouldn't worry, because I don't think any replacement could be worse, to tell you the truth.

[BrightKnight]

9. DeLay is a liability to the Repugs

I cannot imagine why any reasonable Repug would want him around. He has nothing to offer them. He is like Newt only mean spirited and crooked.

I am 200% in favor of getting rid of him. In some ways, he might be useful to the Democratic Party. Label all of the Repugs DeLay neocons for the 06 election.

[dback]

18. "Like Newt, only mean-spirited and crooked?"

Newt Gingrich is one of the most mean-spirited and venal human beings to walk the earth, and plenty of evidence exists of his underhandedness, duplicity, two-facedness, manipulativeness, etc. (Read/listen to Clinton's autobiography.)

No offense, but Newt and DeLay are cut from exactly the same piece of cloth. The only thing I'd say about Newt that puts him one millimeter higher than DeLay is, he is shrewder and smarter. (He, at least, knew when to leave office after the Republican wipeout in the election of '98; DeLay will have to be dragged out of D.C. with rope and branding irons before he ever admits he was wrong, let alone unethical.)

And that's not even mentioning other legions of Southern Republicans like Jesse Helms, Phil Gramm, Trent Lott, etc. These are people who will someday be regarded as s*&% stains on our flag, our Constitution, and our history as a country.

[BrightKnight]

21. Everyone knew he was mean-spirited and corrupt.

Newt left because everyone knew he was mean-spirited and corrupt.

My point was that DeLay was like Newt only much worse. There was no implied respect for Newt. I assumed that anyone posting here would know exactly what Newt was.

[AlCzervik]

10. Think happy thoughts....the congress without Delay....

imagine that, i mena really picture it. For a few moments that makes me very happy.

[kevinmc]

11. Thank you 60 Minutes...........

and Leslie Stahl for showing how a real reporter is supposed to question authority.

[FreedomAngel82]

17. I wish I saw this

Sounds like it was a good show. :)

[ailsagirl]

12. Leslie Stahl focused on DeLay on tonight's "60 Minutes"

Hope some of you got to see that tonight. She asked some good questions.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1643457

"60 Minutes" = MSM!!!

:evilgrin:

[kodi]

13. even the most facile hand is subordinate to the body

delay will be amputated just like the rest of those whose gangrene begins to stink. the body will remain.

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[JNelson6563]

19. I'll believe it when I see it

few things would please me more.

Julie

[DemoTex]

20. Teflon Tom: Excellent five part series from Alternet ..

http://www.alternet.org/story/13151

Delay was a sleaze-ball in his Albo perjury days and he is a sleaze-ball now. These Alternet articles go back a few years, but they capture the true toxic (and Teflon) nature of Tom Delay. I have posted a link to Part V: DeLay's Miscellaneous Machinations. Links to Parts I-IV are available on the above link.


Delay is sweating now!

[Beacho]

23. Go to crooksandliars.com for the 60 minutes piece

You will love every delicious minute of it.

I too was impressed with Stahl bulldogging DeLay. I haven't seen them do that kind of reporting in gawd-knows-when.