This might be the understatement of the year, but Tom DeLay is in the
*****.
Last week the Campaign for America's Future put up a handy cheat sheet
of DeLay's recent scandals, which include taking fancy business trips
paid for by lobbyists, taking campaign contributions for favors, using
a federal agency (the FAA) for partisan purposes, and alleged money
laundering, among other things.
http://www.ourfuture.org/issues_and_campaigns/accountablecongress/delay/rapsheet.cfm
In the past week it was also revealed that since 2001 DeLay's wife and
daughter have personally received more than $500,000 from his
political action committees
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/politics/06delay.html?ex=1270440000&en=97e2ad36918890c9&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland,
and in 1997 DeLay took a trip to Russia which was "underwritten by
business interests lobbying in support of the Russian government,"
according to the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28319-2005Apr5.html
He later cast votes in support of those same business interests.
DeLay has done what he can to clear himself of the charges by, um,
trying to change House ethics rules to make the whole thing go away.
But let's face it, that doesn't really make him look any better.
So what's a poor, downtrodden House Majority Leader to do when the
heat is on?
Why, blame somebody else, of course!
Last week DeLay called the reports about his scandalous behavior "just
another seedy attempt by the liberal media to embarrass me."
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/06/delay.reponse/
Aww, poor baby.
But let it be known that the GOP is backing Tom DeLay all the way
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/06/politics/main685923.shtml,
so hats off to the Republican party for standing shoulder-to-shoulder
with the Bugman, and we'll just wait and see where their firm
conviction for being led by an unethical megalomaniac gets them in
2006.
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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