Posted on 04/12/2005 1:46:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Name 'em, Gail.
This is media spin and hopeful thinking if I've ever seen it.
Fortunately, the CSM has about as much influence on the national scene as, oh, say, "Highlights for Children" magazine.
Can you find a weak-kneed Republican in this picture?
It's funny, but there is always denial among the ranks in public when one of their own is in trouble. But I get the feeling that DeLay has used his hammer once too often and that it's coming home to hurt him. Remember, even among those in his own party and even those who may even believe in the issues he does as he does, the powerful hate having their feet held to the fire and deeply resent being told and enforced to drink DeLay's brand of kool-aid. And those are his allies.
Christopher Shays is the guy that should go. How about a movement to get rid of him?
Phone your congresscritter and tell him/her to support DeLay.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
April 11, 2005
Howard Fineman of Newsweek and Imus talk about the recent controversy surrounding House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Howard Fineman: " I figured that Tom DeLay was probably cooked when they announced over the weekend that the Republicans and his supporters, would be holding a big tribute dinner for him on May 12th and tickets are available now. Generally, when they start having tribute dinners for you while a federal grand jury is meeting, that's not a good sign. "
Imus: "Well, Congressman Christopher Shays from Connecticut.. does he have any power?"
Howard Fineman: "No. He's not significant in this context, Rick Santorum is. Santorum wants to run for President. He wants to win re-election in Pennsylvania, and he's recognized that in Pennsylvania, where allies of the Democrats are running ads against DeLay, that that could have an affect, so that's important. It will continue, we have a periscope that Mike Isikoff did this week about how Delay's former good buddy, this big time lobbyist, Jack Abramoff..."
Imus: "The guy who ripped off the Indians..."
Howard Fineman: "The guy who ripped off the Indians, allegedly, big time is sitting in a restaurant around here in Washington, and is quoted by a good friend of his as saying that DeLay knew everything, that he knew all the details. DeLay's basic defense is, 'I took these trips from these worthwhile foundations. I did not know anything about where the money came from for the trips, etcetera and etcetera. What Abramoff supposedly told a good buddy of his is that that's baloney. DeLay knew it all. What always happens in these situations is that people around the powerful figure get mixed up with the grand jury, and begin thinking how do I avoid prosecution and or jail time, and the answer is, you rat on a higher up. That is potentially the situation that Delay is now in."
***.....John D. Podesta, head of the liberal Center for American Progress and a White House and congressional staff veteran since the 1970s, said "one-party control" by Republicans at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue "changes the dynamic substantially" in political scandals.
"You just don't have anyone in power in Congress who will issue a subpoena," forcing truthful testimony, he said, chiding legislators to restore a sense "that there's things that they just won't tolerate, whether it's done by Republicans or Democrats."
Given the majority leader's problems, Podesta said, in some not exactly friendly advice, "if I was advising DeLay, I don't know that 'getting it all out' is a particularly useful strategy for him." ***
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44997-2005Apr11.html
Amen to Shays being the one to go...
The Republicans need to rid their ranks of the spineless politicos and elect more Tom Delay types.
Bump!
It certainly does!
Gonna be war without guns . . . if we're lucky.
Soros is an easy target.
GOP needs to bell this cow.
Indentify, expose and make his money too radioactive for any group to take.
Pure, unadulterated bullshit. Delay has to ride this out or the Republicans are finished. Shays and his ilk make me want to puke.
"If Republicans can find the guts and brains to stick with Tom DeLay, they'll start to show they know how to govern as a majority. It will be an invaluable lesson."
And, if they do not, they will lose their majority..In our family, we are growing very tired of the Republican's refusal to use that majority to stand against the vicious, outrageous, liberal faction which is still in charge of so much, though they lost the election. Why should George Soros, a foreigner, be allowed to use his money to hire surrogates to take over the Democratic party in the U.S.?
The GOP needs to listen to "flyover" country.
How about we stop eating our own and start attacking the dems? There are dems in Congress who have done the same things, lets get those stories out. How about some Republicans getting on shows and talking about the democrats and their stories.
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