Hammered – Moon of Alabama

April 4, 2006

Hammered

A thought on the delayed extermination of the Hammer.

In several crime cases we have seen the prosecutor to start at the bottom of the foodchain and bite her way up. Get one of lower partcipants indicted and cut them a deal if they help to get the next higher one in the hierarchy.

Fitzgerald wants Rove and probably even Cheney and is working on Libby now to get there.

In DeLay’s case several of his aids were taken down before him and after the last one, Tony Rudy, spilled his beans last Friday (and with charges now going back to 1997), he had to give up.

(Plus he will now be able to use the campaign money he bilked from doners for his defense lawyers. Folks – you got screwed!)

But is DeLay the top of the foodchain or is he just below that. Is not Karl Rove the real architect of the GOP – Texan style?

If DeLay did something criminal, with regards to campaign money, or somehow involving his party, is it plausible Rove will not have known about this?

Who else is there in the GOP hierarchy and probably from Texas, who may fear to get hammered in a DeLay plea bargain?

Posted by b on April 4, 2006 at 18:08 UTC | Permalink

Comments

One of Dick Cheney’s famous smug comments was that “We don’t have any interns with stained lapels in our White House”.
These fellows have entirely different kinds of stains in entirely different places, although they generally involve activities that took place between consenting adults.

Posted by: ralphieboy | Apr 4 2006 18:23 utc | 1

Delay is on hardball claiming to be a saint. right now. What a windbag.

Posted by: jdp | Apr 4 2006 21:20 utc | 2

poor me, no cable 😉

Posted by: annie | Apr 4 2006 21:54 utc | 3

in these dark times – the fall of the hammer has brought a little pleasure
& b real – the phillips book = surprisingly sharp & clean – there is now a real gaggle of old conservative thinkers who are taking positions considerablyh harder & tougher than the democrats

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Apr 5 2006 0:17 utc | 4

Moving to northern Virginia? He’ll be a lobbyist within days, so they say.

Posted by: beq | Apr 5 2006 1:00 utc | 5

as to whether a phillips, or a prudentbear doug noland, et al, are “conservatives” whose criticism of bush has value, I’m not so sure. it’s nice to watch the “conservatives” tear at each other like texas mothers fighting over whose daughter is the prettier debutante, but “conservatives” like the concord coalition and phillips worship a kind of shumpeterian paradise where entrepreneuer’s weather the inclemency of catastrophic destruction by rationally employing “resources.” the “economic sphere” is now pollute dby avarice of the “finacial sphere.”
this is a joke.philips and his cohort are avatars of old capital. fuck them.

Posted by: slothrop | Apr 5 2006 3:26 utc | 6

“From DeLay to Scooter Libby to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to Duke Cunningham, to Bob Ney, to David Safavian, the list of goes on and on.” -Karen Finney, spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee.
“Still, my House Ethics Committee gently sleeps.”

Posted by: Anonymous | Apr 5 2006 4:38 utc | 7

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