Posted on 04/09/2005 1:11:16 AM PDT by WaterDragon
Tom Delay is not afraid of these vipers, he will overcome all they can muster
These ignoramuses are delusional to the max if they think there's a clamor by Republicans to have DeLay step down. I hope he keeps rubbing their noses in it and infuriating them to ever desperate heights. Kinda gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling to see them thrashing around and expending all that time, money, and energy and coming up short.
And we should believe Moveon.org because ?????
Why is anyone in the media taking Moveon.org seriously??
Same agenda!!!
Second of all, since when did the Democrats put such value on military service? They hate the military, and they used to condemn anyone who served in Vietnam. When it is convenient to them, however, they will attempt to smear anyone who did not serve in Vietnam (which was about 4 billion people.)
"The challenge (for Democrats) with the attacks on DeLay is that you cannot, in two sentences, explain what the charges are," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
But critical news reports could eventually change that....*** Despite signs of strain, critics need more ammunition to bring Tom DeLay down
Those guys will say anything anytime anywhere.
When the issue of redistricting was put to a vote, the Chicken Dees fled the state of Texas and hid out.
Meanwhile a chickenhawk is actually a gay term for a NAMBLA-type. I guess that once was a "cute" phrase is something they would rather disown and use to taint their political opposition with.
Tom Delay is not afraid of these vipers,
he will overcome all they can muster .....
.....All lies, all the time.......
They're in bad shape. They have no recourse but to complain as loudly and dishonestly as they can. They are standing on the beach shouting at the oncoming tsunami.
Tom DeLay support bump!!!
I believe I read somewhere that a DNC rep recently praised MoveOn as representing the "real" Dem party, so I think they have quasi-official status now.
Aside from that, this technique of Republican bashing supposedly by other Republicans must be very effective, because the Dems are using it a lot. There was an ad on the radio the other day about Social Security - opposing Bush's plan, of course - that had somebody saying in a reflective voice, "well, I'm a life-long Republican, but I [don't want to starve in the street, etc. - fill in the blanks]." It was sponsored by the Dems, of course.
It also had a snippet from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington that they had twisted to fit their ad. Jimmy Stewart was known to be a Republican, and the implication was that even though he's now dead, he wouldn't have liked the GOP either.
Exposing WHO is behind these attacks is VERY important.
This is what the MSM is supposed to be doing but they are to busy ignoring important stories.
Yep .. it was on C-span a few weeks back
Chuckie Schumer said they treated Bob Bryd like a Rock Star
The last successful campaign MoveOn had was defending the bent one from impeachment. Since then, everything they advocated has lost despite mega-millions from Soros.
In case anybody missed this info about who is really targeting DeLay - here it is again:
GOP: Soros Behind Delay Attacks
Newsmax.com ^ | 3/24/2005
The concentrated assault on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay by Democrats and their media allies haven't just happened - they are largely the work of a shadowy groups of liberal organizations all backed by one man: George Soros.
Billionaire George Soros, working behind the scenes with liberal anti-Bush groups dominated by long-time Democrat activists.
So say Republicans, who have uncovered the sinister Soros-backed conspiracy to undermine one of the GOP's most effective leaders and prevent him from concentrating on guiding his hated conservative "Red State” agenda through the House of Representatives.
According to The Hill newspaper, Republican researchers have connected Soros, members of pressure groups posing as "government watchdog groups" and loaded with Democrat activists, and top Hill Democrats in the attacks on DeLay and the House Ethics Committee.
"The research shows that members of these groups’ boards have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and political organizations and several of their staff members have previously worked for Democrats," The Hill reported, adding that they "have also accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Open Society Institute, an organization founded by Soros, who spent millions trying to defeat President Bush in last year’s election."
The latest revelations came in the wake of a series of talking points issued by the Republican National Committee (RNC) last week which named four liberal pressure groups as having "close ties to left wing leaders like George Soros.”
According to The Hill, the GOP research efforts are part of a Republican attempt to put a damper on what the paper described as "a media feeding frenzy" surrounding DeLay and allegations of his alleged improper conduct.
Illustrative of the media's massive coverage fanned by liberals and Democrats, the Hill reported that over a five-day span:
"TV and radio stations and print publications from around the country featured at least 290 stories either about a controversial junket DeLay took to Scotland in 2000, his response to criticism about the propriety of that trip, or his offer to discuss the matter with the House ethics committee," a survey showed.
Articles about DeLay, by The Associated Press, Reuters, Knight Ridder and The Washington Post, were picked up by news outlets around the country. "The DeLay scandal is getting to the point where House Republicans just won’t be able to withstand much more,” a Democrat aide bragged to The Hill. "With every story that is written, it becomes more clear that House Republicans are risking their political futures by associating themselves with him. When literally hundreds of stories about the GOP leader’s shoddy ethics are appearing in nearly every local and regional paper across the country, you can’t blame voters for painting them all with the same brush.”
Among the liberal and Democrat lynch mobs focusing on unproven ethics violations by DeLay, all of which he has been able to explain adequately:
The Congressional Ethics Coalition, a group of nine left-wing pressure groups which held a press conference last week blasting what they called the immobilization of the House ethics panel, which the Hill points out has yet to organize solely because of objections by ranking Democrat Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) to changes House GOP leaders made to ethics procedure at the start of the new Congress. The groups also used the opportunity to attack DeLay.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a group that last year assisted former Rep. Chris Bell (D-Texas) in drafting an ethics complaint against DeLay resulting in a mild slap on the wrist for the GOP leader. At last week’s press conference, Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director, said that DeLay should step down as majority leader. Not surprisingly, from 1995 to 1998 Sloan served as [Democrat] minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee under Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich). Before that, Sloan served as the nominations counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee under Delaware Democrat Sen. Joe Biden.
According to The Hill, GOP research also revealed that Mark Penn, a formed pollster for President Clinton, and Daniel Berger, a major Democratic donor, serve on CREW’s board. Spokeswoman Naomi Seligman refused to reveal the membership of CREW’s board, although she admitted that Penn and Berger are members. Last year, Berger made a $100,000 contribution to America Coming Together (ACT), a 527 group that was dedicated to defeating Bush in the presidential election, according to politicalmoneyline.com, a website that tracks fundraising. According to records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, March 21, 2005, and obtained by NewsMax.com Soros Fund Management/George Soros, gave the group a whopping $7,500,000 in the 2004 election cycle.
Democracy 21 is headed by Fred Wertheimer, a long-time liberal activist who once headed the left-wing group Common Cause. The group's board of directors has given "tens of thousands to Democrats,” the GOP research showed. A survey by The Hill of fundraising data on politicalmoneyline.com showed that three members of the group’s board, including Dick Clark, a former Democratic senator from Iowa, gave nearly $20,000 in contributions to Democrats since the beginning of the 2000 election cycle while Republicans received not a cent from board members, according to the survey by The Hill. Lexa Edsall, a consultant to the group, served in the Clinton administration, and Amanda Lewis, the communications director, worked for former Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo (N.Y.), according to the GOP research.
Democracy 21’s education fund also received a $50,000 grant from Soros’s institute in 2003, the most recent year for which data are available, according to a 990 form filed with the Internal Revenue Service. The GOP research paper states that the group has received $300,000 in total from Soros's Open Society Institute.
Joining in the lynch mob, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called for a bipartisan panel to review the chamber’s ethics procedures.
Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a Clinton White House aide has put together a scheme to use alleged ethics violations as an issue in races against DeLay and Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), The Hill reported last week.
Republicans told The Hill that the evidence reveals a coordinated effort between House Democrats and the liberal pressure groups to damage DeLay and the GOP leadership politically.
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