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January 7, 2006
DeOut

What has triggered Tom DeLay to  step away from regaining his position as House majority leader?

Was it just the petition for new leadership elections some Republicans floated? I had expected DeLay to fight that one down. 

Yesterday Time reported Duke Cunningham wore a wire while cooperating with the prosecutors in his bribe case. That wire must have caught some interesting talk.

Was Jack Abramoff also wearing one throughout the 18 month he is said to have cooperated with the investigation? Transcripts of such bugged conversations in which he bribes politicians should be even more interesting than Cunnigham’s. 

Maybe yesterdays Time piece made DeLay understand how huge the upcoming train really is. He sure knows about bugs.

Roy Blunt, who now wants DeLay’s post permanently, will have to have the same fear. But he wants the job dearly.

Fine with me, the longer this scandal series takes, the better.

Comments

I said in the last open thread that Delay was gone. He will also resign, or, well, he may be forced to resign due to jail time.
Delay is one of the most corrupt politcians I’ve ever seen. And you what the sad part is, he doesn’t believe his actions are corrupt. I truly believe he’s so out of touch with reality that he thinks he’s done nothing wrong. The moral values crowd needs to stand back and take a hard look at these rethugs and decide if they are really the way to the promised land. I would say they look more like the Pharasees.

Posted by: jdp | Jan 7 2006 21:53 utc | 1

truly believe he’s so out of touch with reality that he thinks he’s done nothing wrong.
No jdp – he and the others involved are too smart for that. maybe they want you to see it that way, but it is impossible to take series of bribes to make laws in favor of the bribe-givers and pretend it is a good deed.
DeLay and all the others do know what they are doing and they do lnow that they have to hide it because it’s wrong.

Posted by: b | Jan 7 2006 21:58 utc | 2

Sorry b,
I just don’t buy that. They want things to be corrupt just like the gilded age and the wild west where all local politicians and state officials appointed governors were in the pocket of the large ranchers and the railroad, Joe McCarthy, supply side economics and the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004.
They want unfettered bribing and truly believe its the way business should be done. Remember, this is the republican party. The party that brought you the gilded age, the roaring twenties and the great depression. They have no guilty feelings at all.

Posted by: jdp | Jan 7 2006 22:38 utc | 3

If bribery can be seen as a benevolent act in service of loyalty, then you’re both right.

Posted by: anna missed | Jan 7 2006 23:59 utc | 4

Odd…
Many of these Neocon thugs really consolidated their positions on the coat-tails of the Lewinsky scandal. Lots of talk about returning morality to government and all that. Of course they were being cynical and expedient and didn’t mean a word of it… unless you want to argue that the ends and the means are the same to these folk. But what is not contestable is that these people are detestable; DeLay, Frist, Rove, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Scalia, Feith, Wolfowitz, (and Enron, Halliburton, KB&R, et cetera) make up a rogue’s gallery of some of the most profound scoundrels ever to co-exist on the same stage… leading me towards an answer to the age-old question of whether the men make the times or the times make the men.
But by wallowing in their excesses, they might very well unintentionally deliver on their high-minded rhetoric. They’ve pushed the public outrage quotient farther than even Nixon and his ilk dared to. These hobgoblins might very well bring around a demand for a side order of ethics with our politics (or at least some semblance of it)in the same way that Enron shoved a stake in the heart of corporate pirates who wanted to do their Randian dirties in the cold light of day.
One thing failed politics is good for producing is over-compensation. The next wave of witch hunters we see aren’t going to be cynics; they’ll be True Believers. Once enough people get burned by these crooks, they won’t be so wary of a High Inquisitor as common sense would seem to dictate. This could all go in a few directions, but a glance at my road map isn’t showing many paths to reform making any side trips to actually helping anyone out.

Posted by: Monolycus | Jan 8 2006 1:36 utc | 5

@Monolycus
You may be interested to know w/regards to the lewinsky scandal according to Michael Collins Piper many were workin long on this :
Falwell Confirms Lewinsky Affair Linked to Israeli Lobby Intrigue Television evangelist Jerry Falwell couldn’t resist bragging and finally admitting the truth: he and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu did conspire—at a critical time—to trip up President Bill Clinton and specifically use the pressure of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to force Clinton to abandon pressure on Israel to withdraw from the occupied West Bank.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jan 8 2006 4:00 utc | 6

One must never forget that when Falwell attacks, he’s at the end of S. Koran cult leader and Bush mentor Sun Myung Moon’s leash. At last count, between the bail out of the Moral Majority bond issue and the bail out of Liberty College, Falwell is into this creep for $80,000,000! When Moon snaps the leash, Falwell barks. He’s as much a lap dog to Moon as Bush is to Cheney.
Link to Page of Falwells Moonie Connection

This is from a Christian web page. Not all people of faith share in the Neocon Culture of Corruption. But it must be lonely.

Posted by: diogenes | Jan 8 2006 15:16 utc | 7

Very interesting, diogenes. Follow the money.

Posted by: Malooga | Jan 8 2006 15:38 utc | 8

diogenes, i made it this farjesus is savior but the full link brings us this result
The requested URL /False Religions/Moonies/jerry_falwell_and_myung_moon.htm/ was not found on this server.
can you copy some of the script for me?

Posted by: annie | Jan 8 2006 18:11 utc | 9

annie,
you only had to take the last / off the url and it would work. or click here

Posted by: dan of steele | Jan 8 2006 19:12 utc | 10

via Atrios a great video of Dean “killing” Blitzer link
That guy would have made a good President

Posted by: b | Jan 8 2006 19:32 utc | 11