Yahoo news article: DELAY SAYS BLAME DEMS Over HIS Ethic Probs

[pbartch]

Read the article and VOTE on it...... reply on the Yahoo message board if you're inclinded. I included the URL.
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By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, hoping to hold support among fellow Republicans, urged GOP senators Tuesday to blame Democrats if asked about his ethics controversy and accused the news media of twisting supportive comments so they sounded like criticism.

Officials said DeLay recommended that senators respond to questions by saying Democrats have no agenda other than partisanship, and are attacking him to prevent Republicans from accomplishing their legislative program. One Republican said the Texan referred to a "mammoth operation" funded by Democratic supporters and designed to destroy him as a symbol of the Republican majority.

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The panel arranged a meeting for Wednesday, and Rep. Alan Mollohan of West Virginia, the senior Democrat, said he would renew a push for a bipartisan rewrite of the rules that Republicans put into effect in January on a party-line vote. Officials in both parties said they knew of no compromise discussions.

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"The power of prayer is the only thing that will sustain you" in the circumstance DeLay is in, Lott added, and he spoke disparagingly of any Republicans who fail to stand by the Texan.

"That's the problem, you know, Republicans eat their own.... Democrats stand by their own until hell freezes over," said Lott, who was ousted as Senate majority leader two years ago after making controversial race-based comments at a birthday party for the late Strom Thurmond.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050412/ap_on_go_co/delay_ethics

[coloradodem2005]

1. Republicans eat their own to save face.

Well, Lott knows better than any Republican (including DeLay) what kind of pickle DeLay is in. He is going to sink like a stone.

[TheFarseer]

2. Wow, Lott has no clue

"Republicans eat their own.... Democrats stand by their own until hell freezes over" could this statement possibly be any more wrong?? I'm not a democrat just to be a democrat. I'm a democrat because they represent more of what I believe in and I think this would be a better country if more of their policies were implemented. If I ever feel that way about the republicans, I will definitely become a republican. This isn't college football. You don't have to stick by your "team" no matter what. This rah rah go republicans shit pisses me off.

on edit - I totally forgot about Lott's little problem. I guess there's exceptions for everything.

[dbonds]

3. Probably should rate that article down

[Tux]

4. DeLay

Jumped the shark and Bush is not going to get much done. Already people are waking up to the Christian Right's bullshit. Even Evangelcials are understanding that they may support an American Taliban.