DeLay Is Going to Bite It! Huzzah!

[World_Eater]

This pleases me. I shall enjoy watching Delay go down in flames.

[Frank]

@duffer

I’m curious, though, why 'luci is pitting Delay instead of praising the Republicans for showing integrity.

Some integrity.

@CNN

DeLay did not apologize at the meeting for the controversy the rule change created. And comments from Republicans indicated Monday night’s move was motivated primarily by politics.

A spokesman for DeLay said Democrats will now lose the one talking point that Republicans believed might have been effective against them.

Wamp said the move “took the bullets right out of [Democratic leader] Nancy Pelosi’s gun.”

Yes indeed, some integrity. Even Nixon wasn’t this much of a weasel.

[Jackmannii]

@Age Quod Agis

I like to think that our elected representatives are generally good people that are looking out for our interests

Yes, but we are talking about Tom DeLay here.

and I think we all suffer anytime one of them is brought down through corruption.

Apart from those of us rolling on the floor laughing.
Jackmannii, former constituent (barf) of Tom (The Exterminator) DeLay.

[ElvisL1ves]

It is far from settled that DeLay is going to have to leave Congress, or even his post. It’s way too early to feel relief on that point. All that’s happened is that a large number of his own party members are finally more fearful of their electorates than of him. It’s too bad that wasn’t the case when he foisted the impeachment travesty upon us, though.

This is important anyway - when an autocrat is no longer feared, he is soon deposed.

[Guinastasia]

@Evil Captor

In Machiavelli’s “The Prince” there’s a section which I remember vividly, because I have so often been reminded of it so often over the years, in which Machiavelli advises the forward thinking prince to handle a rebellious province this way: put a real bastard in charge, a ring-tailed a-hole who’ll oppress the living shit out of everyone and rule with an iron fist. When he’s got the populace really roused with all the iron-fistedness and such, march into town and summarily execute him, or throw him in gaol, and declare that you had NO IDEA what a bastard the guy way. (Later, you can rehabilitate him and send him to another province if you like.) Meanwhile, the people all love you and declare you their hero, etc., because you got rid of that bastid. Province quelled, you’re in charge, etc.

Not that I’m cynical or everything. I’m just saying, it’s a very old technique.

Are you suggesting that Tom DeLay is nothing more than a puppet?

I urge you to read The Hammer if you think that.

[Squink]

@Guinastasia

Are you suggesting that Tom DeLay is nothing more than a puppet?

Perhaps he is. Nevertheless, I love Evil Captor’s plan to summarily execute DeLay, and then rehabilitate him at a later date. (R, Undead), indeed!

[eleanorigby]

Jeebus–I am almost afraid to hope. Until 2000, I was a moderate Dem and sometimes even voted GOP–at state level, anyway. The voice of the moderate GOP’ers has been lost in the last few years. I hope this is a sign that it will sing out again, loud and clear…

[Miller]

@duffer

Oh, come now. Surely you can do better than get a dig in on the “Tighty Righties” while offering praise at the same time, can’t you? If it was genuine praise, just wondering where the insult fits into it. Why do I have the feeling a Republican could find the cure for cancer and you’d find a way to bitch about it?

Why do I have the feeling that if you saw elucidator personally fellating George Bush, you’d criticize him for using his teeth too much?

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

ACK, Miller! DAMN you for making me laugh and vomit at the same time!

[Miller]

Did it shoot out your nose? I hate it when that happens.

[duffer]

@Miller

Why do I have the feeling that if you saw elucidator personally fellating George Bush, you’d criticize him for using his teeth too much?

Well, elucidator’s title says Delay is going to bite it. I can only assume 'luci would be more careful.

[elucidator]

I have been a garbageman. I have read the works of Ayn Rand, Rod McKuen, and Stephen King. I have raised babies. It takes a lot to gross me out.

[thundering understatement] I am totally grossed out [/tu]

[duffer]

Hah! I knew I had a hidden talent. Just didn’t know what it was till now.

[rjung]

Washington update – Republicans still opposed to ethics and values:

House Rule Change Makes Ethics Probes Harder

A day after backing off a rules change that would have allowed an indicted congressional leader to retain his post, the House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted a separate change that will make it harder to pursue ethics probes of members of Congress.

The vote on the rules package was 220-195 along party lines. The Republicans who control the House said the changes are needed to make the ethics system work better while the Democratic minority said it would “gut” the House’s main means of policing its members.

Five members of each party serve on the House ethics panel and under the current system, a tie vote would launch an ethics probe. Under the new rule, a tie or failure to make a decision within 45 days would mean no action would be taken.

A partnership of watchdog groups calling itself the Congressional Ethics Coalition said the changes "would sharply increase the incentive for partisan, deadlock votes on the committee, and would go a long way toward guaranteeing that most ethics complaints would be dead on arrival."