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Pelosi: Statement on Tom DeLay's Outburst Today

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conjur

No Lifer
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041119/dcf033_1.html
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in reaction to comments made at a Capitol Hill press conference this morning by Majority Leader Tom DeLay, in which he denied that he was rebuked by the Ethics Committee and made unsubstantiated attacks against Pelosi and other Democrats:

"Tom DeLay proved this morning that he is not only unethical, but delusional.

"No amount of mud slinging can hide the fact that Mr. DeLay has repeatedly abused his power. Over the years, this has resulted in four rebukes by the Ethics Committee -- including two rebukes last month that were a direct result of Congressman Chris Bell's complaint. Mr. DeLay has insisted that these charges are merely partisan attacks, but the bipartisan Ethics Committee's unanimous conclusions have put that lie to rest.

"Mr. DeLay's display today and his repeated ethical lapses have brought dishonor on the House of Representatives."
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I like her! Speaks her mind much like McCain or Biden.

Too bad DeLay lives in the Bizarro world. I can't wait to see him go down in flames!
 
Oh come on guys, even I can see that these charges are merely partisan attacks.
Tom Delay is a great guy, and a wonderful lover.
/end sarcasm
 
Originally posted by: conjur

Too bad DeLay lives in the Bizarro world. I can't wait to see him go down in flames!
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What are you talking about??? That Bazzarro world you speak of is the New America and he is one of the rulers of the roost at the top. Are you suggesting he may fly too close to the sun???
 
An interesting aside:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.../A61374-2004Nov18.html
Some Republicans, at least, remember what they stood for 10 years ago. "We took a strong stand in 1994 to make clear the Republican conference would live by a higher standard than our Democratic colleagues," Rep. Chris Shays, a Connecticut Republican, said in a statement. Shays also told reporters: "We won election in '94 because we were going to be different, and what I continue to see is a slow but very consistent erosion in what made us different."

Shays reminds us that when and he and Gingrich were in the opposition, they gave voice to many who worried about the dangers of an entrenched majority that came to assume it had a right to power and could do whatever was necessary to keep it. Gingrich's line about the Gilded Age just may have come 12 years too early. You don't have to be a crackpot to believe that the Gilded Age is now.
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DeLay makes me sick, he is the text book example of a worthless, corrupt ass politican. Kudos to Pelosi. :thumbsup:
 
Hopefully the charges against DeLay in Texas will bear fruit- He'd look great pickin' cotton on the prison farm in Huntsville. I'd pay to see it...
 
Originally posted by: conjur
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041119/dcf033_1.html
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in reaction to comments made at a Capitol Hill press conference this morning by Majority Leader Tom DeLay, in which he denied that he was rebuked by the Ethics Committee and made unsubstantiated attacks against Pelosi and other Democrats:

"Tom DeLay proved this morning that he is not only unethical, but delusional.

"No amount of mud slinging can hide the fact that Mr. DeLay has repeatedly abused his power. Over the years, this has resulted in four rebukes by the Ethics Committee -- including two rebukes last month that were a direct result of Congressman Chris Bell's complaint. Mr. DeLay has insisted that these charges are merely partisan attacks, but the bipartisan Ethics Committee's unanimous conclusions have put that lie to rest.

"Mr. DeLay's display today and his repeated ethical lapses have brought dishonor on the House of Representatives."
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I like her! Speaks her mind much like McCain or Biden.

Too bad DeLay lives in the Bizarro world. I can't wait to see him go down in flames!
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Got a transcript of delays remarks? Cspan is not letting me pull up the vid.
 
I haven't come across a transcript. I was watching the replay on C-SPAN earlier but all I caught were comments from Dreier and Blackburn. I'm glad neither of them are my Representative. Wow. What total frauds. "Our goal is accountability and transparency."


BULL-F*CKING-SH*T!
 
Originally posted by: Jhhnn
Hopefully the charges against DeLay in Texas will bear fruit- He'd look great pickin' cotton on the prison farm in Huntsville. I'd pay to see it...
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The sooner the better, no sense in DeLaying the inevitable.
 
I don't think DeLay is a bad person, but if the Dems can muster up an at least half-hearted campaign effort, this could be pretty bad for the House Republicans who voted in favor of the DeLay rule in the '06 elections.
 
DeLay's days are numbered.

David Brooks column @ NYTimes

That ineffable thing called political capital began seeping away from DeLay. Someday people will look back and say this could be the moment when his power begins to ebb.

It's shifted because many House Republicans know that DeLay has been playing close to the ethical edge for years. They've noticed the number of scandals - the latest involving lobbying fees for some Indian casinos - that trace back to DeLay cronies. They still remember that delicious feeling of possibility when they arrived in Washington and vowed they would not turn into the corrupt old majority they had come to replace. They know Delay symbolizes their descent from that reformist ideal.
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David Brooks could fairly be characterized as a conservative Bush supporter. I saw him on PBS after the first of the presidential debates and I thought he was nothing but a spinmaster (said Bush did a good job at Debate 1, which everyone knows is bs). If he won't even give DeLay some positive spin, it must mean something.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
I don't think DeLay is a bad person, but if the Dems can muster up an at least half-hearted campaign effort, this could be pretty bad for the House Republicans who voted in favor of the DeLay rule in the '06 elections.
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"We have lost all we can lose." N. Pelosi

I wonder how sure she is on that.
 
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