Breaking: Delay Indicted

CNN

[West Coast Conservative]

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay indicted on one count of criminal conspiracy by Texas grand jury, according to Travis County clerk's office.

[tiredoflaundry]

F***

[AntiGuv]

The writing was on the wall.

[BlackRain]

Frist and Delay - perhaps they could share a jail cell.

I wonder if:

1) Delay will resign or step down from his leadership post.

2) Who will eventually takeover from Frist and Delay?

Any ideas?

[smokeman]

Oh brother, here we go

[Zack Nguyen]

Ugh - that's awful.

[Danae]

That's a pisser.

[for-q-clinton]

That's going to leave a mark. But then the RATs didn't care about clinton's impeachment. The bad news is most republican voters do care about character and indictments.

[LikeLight]

rrrrrr...

[RightWhale]

Hmm.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Just more BS.

[ncountylee]

Witch hunt. Fight it Tom and don't give an inch.

[mewzilla]

Is this the same prosecutor that's been after Delay for years?

[tiredoflaundry]

:-D

[Puppage]

The writing was on the wall

And, now, thanks to the MSM, it'll be all over the airwaves. Unlike Sandy Bergers thievery.

[JFC]

I live in Texas and I do not think this story has legs. I do see a dim witch hunt. Our dims in Texas are being used by the upper level dims. MSM will run with this and make hay. If I am proved wrong, I will eat my hat.

[LikeLight]

Demo prosecutor per Fox.

[Tugo]

This is a pisser.

[stuartcr]

Is this bad?

[Trueblackman]

Delay will be cleared of this and the DA(a Democrats) has been pushed by the DNC to see that this happens.

[Peach]

Oh no!

[dc-zoo]

Those dirty Rotten Rat Bastards!

[man from mars]

Delay will be get out of this mess!

[Labyrinthos]

Before we all go crazy, what is the alleged criminal conspircy?

[rdb3]

You think The Hammer is guilty?

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

[xzins]

His time's just about up, anyway. That's the way political fortunes have gone in that position for the last few decades.

Majority leader is not speaker.

[Rosemont]

Who is the prosecutor? Does he have a record of selectively bringing charges against Republicans?

[tiredoflaundry]

I hope your right!

[NormsRevenge]

Partisan political hack cajoles Grand Jury into indicting House leader

[RobFromGa]

He'll be found Not Guilty. (better than Not Proven)

[goldstategop]

Ronnie Earle, huh? He got his scalp.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Indictments are easy to get. Any DA worth his salt can get a grand jury to indict, it has been said. Getting the charges to stick are another thing.

But Delay may find his power brokering delayed for a bit.

[kellynla]

BTTT

[BladeLWS]

WITCHHUNT, go get em Tom!

[areafiftyone]

Heard this was coming down the pike yesterday. It was all over the Leftists websites. I thought maybe it was just wishful thinking on their part. UGH!

[JFC]

Dirty rotten dims do desperate things. Travis County is the largest group of libs of any place in Texas.

[Rakkasan1]

Martha and TD sittin' in a cell...

[VeniVidiVici]

Democrats playing hardball.

Next step in this process is for the Republicans to acquiesce quietly and slink away with their tail between their legs.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

[BlackRain]

"Is this the same prosecutor that's been after Delay for years?"

While the axiom that any DA could "indite a ham sandwich" is true.

There must be some substantial evidence to take such an important Congressman.

[george wythe]

He needs to concentrate on fighting this charge, and he will be exonerated.

This is a political witchhunt.

[RummyChick]

brian wilson saying KayBay was once indicted and then it was thrown out.

[wallcrawlr]

http://www.bakers-legal-pages.com/pc/1502.htm


Sec. 15.02. CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY. (a) A person commits criminal conspiracy if, with intent that a felony be committed:
~ ~ (1) he agrees with one or more persons that they or one or more of them engage in conduct that would constitute the offense; and
~ ~ (2) he or one or more of them performs an overt act in pursuance of the agreement.
~ (b) An agreement constituting a conspiracy may be inferred from acts of the parties.
~ (c) It is no defense to prosecution for criminal conspiracy that:
~ ~ (1) one or more of the coconspirators is not criminally responsible for the object offense;
~ ~ (2) one or more of the coconspirators has been acquitted, so long as two or more coconspirators have not been acquitted;
~ ~ (3) one or more of the coconspirators has not been prosecuted or convicted, has been convicted of a different offense, or is immune from prosecution;
~ ~ (4) the actor belongs to a class of persons that by definition of the object offense is legally incapable of committing the object offense in an individual capacity; or
~ ~ (5) the object offense was actually committed.
~ (d) An offense under this section is one category lower than the most serious felony that is the object of the conspiracy, and if the most serious felony that is the object of the conspiracy iS 8 state jail felony, the offense is a Class A misdemeanor.

[SwinneySwitch]

The Earle of Injustice strikes again!

[bmwcyle]

The GOP is falling apart. Hillary is going to walk into the White House.

[freeperfromnj]

Next step in this process is for the Republicans to acquiesce quietly and slink away with their tail between their legs

They've been really good at that lately.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

2) Who will eventually takeover from Frist and Delay? Any ideas? Lott: Hey guys, I've learned my lesson.

[SE Mom]

Oh geeeeeesh ping.

[patriot_wes]

If only he knew what the meaning of "is" is. He could walk.

[eastforker]

campaign finance.

[Red Badger]

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely


An observation that a person’s sense of morality lessens as his or her power increases. The statement was made by Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.