[Eric in the Ozarks]

A political prisoner if there ever was one.

[Just mythoughts]

WEll thank you lord McCain and prince Fiengold... Imagine if an investigation were ever conducted into liberal campaigns.... Dear LORD prayers up for Mr. DeLay.

[MaxMax]

Didn't the RATs change the law to fit the crime for a conviction?

[trumandogz]

Tom DeLay has nothing to worry about since the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is comprised entirely of Republicans. With that being the case, the appeals court will overturn the verdict.

[wendy1946]

This is asking for a civil war.

[mewykwistmas]

and 10 years probation after jail. So he will be around 76 when his probation runs out. Definitely not a slap in the wrist.

[Rational Thought]

Can the Governor of Texas issue a pardon for this?

[ColdOne]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7095IR20110110

Ex-House leader DeLay gets 5-year prison term

I wonder which it is 3 or 5 years...

[Raycpa]

Two issues come to my mind:

Is this what congress had in mind with the money laundering statutes?

Isn’t this an end run around the constitution which left the discipline of congress members for acts related to their office up to the respective congressional body?

[brityank]

A jury determined that he conspired with two associates to use his Texas-based political action committee to send $190,000 in corporate money to an arm of the Washington-based Republican National Committee. The RNC then sent the same amount to seven Texas House candidates. Under Texas law, corporate money can't go directly to political campaigns.

Looks just like United Appeal and how they juggle their funding. They claim you can specify where your contributions go; in reality they use them to offset the portion of the pot they had determined for that group, freeing up funds for their own pet projects.

Freakin' railroad job!

[greyfoxx39]

[kevinm13]

This is completely politically driven, not criminally driven. What he did with candidates was legal and is still done. This is outrageous. I hope he appeals and it gets tossed.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Did DeLay do something illegal? Probably.

Did everyone else do it? Probably.

Can I get too worked up over K-Street Project Tom getting railroaded? No.

[Friendofgeorge]

I am assuming the sentence is on hold for appeals process?? After which he never see`s the inside of prison...HOPEFULLY!!

[americanophile]

Obama raised tens of millions of dollars over the Internet through donors he refused to disclose and made no attempt screen. Everyone knows that his campaign was funded with a river of foreign currency, and that myriad laws were broken - including conduit contributions, contributions exceeding the legal limit and contributions from phony donors. Having won the election, neither his own inaptly named Department of Justice or toothless FEC bothered to review the matter. This is a scandal of the first order and deserves a serious investigation.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/22/obamas-donor-credit-card-fraud-problem/

[kittymyrib]

And Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Charles Rangel, Algore etc. etc. are the toasts of the Coasts. There is no justice for conservatives in America.

[mulligan]

The only person who should go to jail is the Judge.

[newzjunkey]

The "Hammer" is probably a crook.

3 yrs doesn't sound bad compared to the potential of life behind bars. The law, which he was a part of, must be applied even to people in power or it means nothing.

[Defiant]

Well, now it’s official. Soviet Union show trials and kangaroo courts have reached our shores. All you need is a liberal prosecutor in a liberal county and you can take down any conservative in the country.

[shield]

It will not stand he’ll appeal it and it will be thrown out.