Bradblog - Wall Street Journal Smacks Down DeLay...

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Blogged by Brad on 3/28/2005 @ 1:17pm PT...

Wall Street Journal Smacks Down DeLay...
(And they're supposed to be his friends!)

When even the Wall Street Journal leaves the reservation to call out one of its own, you know there is trouble afoot...

...Mr. DeLay, who rode to power in 1994 on a wave of revulsion at the everyday ways of big government, has become the living exemplar of some of its worst habits.
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Whether Mr. DeLay violated the small print of House Ethics or campaign-finance rules is thus largely beside the point. His real fault lies in betraying the broader set of principles that brought him into office, and which, if he continues as before, sooner or later will sweep him out.

Jesse at Stakeholder has more...http://blog.dccc.org/mt/archives/002474.html

Heard Franken mention this morning that the only problem with DeLay's potentially upcoming fall from his many self-inflicted wounds, is that he'll be removed too quickly to take down the entire Republican leadership with him! Oh, well. There's always more Republican Tom's where that one came from.

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1. Houston Chronicle - Editorial, report spell new troubles for DeLay

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.

'There is no comparison'- The story about DeLay's father, Charles, first published by the Los Angeles Times, comes a week after the Sugar Land Republican led an effort by Congress to intervene on behalf of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged Florida woman whose feeding tube had been removed on the order of a state judge. Dan Allen, DeLay's spokesman, denied any implication that the congressman had acted inconsistently. "As much as the press would like to make this a comparison between Congressman DeLay's father and Terri Schiavo, there is no comparison," said Allen.

The elder DeLay was "in a coma and not responsive and being kept alive by machines," he said. Schiavo "is awake, the family says she knows when they are with her, and she was receiving what every human being needs to survive."

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[Erika]

2. DeLay is the common symbol for the corrupt right

He's as dirty as they get. Most people know dirt and he qualifies fully.

[GetTheRightVote]

3. This one man's dirt should cover many in the Repub Party but will it ?

:kick:

[paineinthearse]

5. Yes, with your help.

Your post has inspired me to post a reminder about Raw Story's PAPER CHASE project. Will edit this post with a link when up.

thanks

[ebayfool]

4. Looks like the *ush brothers are throwing him off the train.

I suspect these right wingers wouldn't go after him w/out tacit permission from on high. They probably think it will deflect the anger/focus from their parts in the recent passion play in Florida.