It's not just the "liberal media": Papers that endorsed Bush blast Delay

[CatWoman]

Notwithstanding allegations that attacks on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's (R-TX) ethics are a conspiracy by "liberal media," newspapers across the country that have previously endorsed President Bush have questioned DeLay's practices in editorials -- with some even calling on him to step down as majority leader.

The April 14 Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio):

DeLay has the skill and intelligence to maneuver himself politically away from ethics problems and toward the business of Congress, but he first would need an honest self-assessment that puts power in the perspective of the duties and ideals he swore to uphold.

If, instead, DeLay continues to shoot himself in the foot, he continues to wound his party.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200504150001

[patrice]

1. They're just trying to throw a bare bone to the lions.

I want him to stay.

[delete_bush]

2. Yep, he needs to twist in the wind

a for awhile. Let him continue to stink up his party until the stench causes the repukes to react.

[patrice]

3. And that bone IS bare.

Because most of the case against him is going to be "who cares?" to many Americans.

We should be angling for fatter game.

[asjr]

4. I am all for going after Bill Frist. I sent a LTTE

today to the NYT abooout him, but it was probably to snarky for them to print.

[patrice]

5. "snarky"?

= arcane, highly detailed policy stuff?

[asjr]

6. No, not that definition. I've used that word for years as being

insulting. My mother used it all the time.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. I hate to sound cynical but,

I think they've just decided that he's a liability to them, so they are getting ready to jettison him. I remember the exact same thing happening with Trent Lott.

It has nothing to do with them rediscovering any principles. It's just a cynical power play.

Of course, after it's all over, they'll blame the "librul" media for victimizing that poor, honorable, Christian, man.

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Something I'm wondering

I'm wondering if DeLay is purposley trying to bring down people in his party? Maybe he's mad at them for something and now he's trying to get revenge? I've learned that republicans don't go down without being loud about something. Maybe he's threatning Bush or someone else with something and that's why he's still around. Surely he would've been booted earlier on. The other republicans have to worry about re-elections in 2006 so that's why they're staying away from him but he keeps popping up. So I only wonder.