DeLay Announces Resignation From House

Succumbing to scandal, former Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday he will resign from Congress in the face of a tough re-election race, closing out a career that blended unflinching conservatism with a bare-knuckled political style.

[trafdlo]

I can't understand why a republican when they get in trouble, they resign. Democrates stay in office and get voted back in again.

[DS Higgins]

Is this even new? The man has been resigned for years now....

[valerie]

Couldn't agree more trafdlo. Clinton is a demi-god to the Dems, even after his well-documented lack of moral fiber. If Bush had even so much as had lunch with a female intern alone, he would have been burned alive by the media.

All the elected Dems who get caught at something are never mentioned as ''Dem'' in the mainstream media. But an elected Republican? Have mercy, all they write is the word ''Republican'' or ''GOP''.

Poor Mr Delay. I suppose he realizes that he can't be efficient anymore and must make way. But that's life as a politician in modern America.

[babooph]

Why does God choose such very low grade creeps to be in control of the States?

[Summer Rain]

Why are you posting an article from 2006 for discussion? Here's the latest in the case:

Dec. 15, 2007
DeLay nemesis Ronnie Earle says he'll stay in office until end of 2008

By R.G. RATCLIFFE
Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau

...Indictments alleging conspiracy to violate state election laws have been thrown out, but there are pending indictments on money laundering charges that are being considered by the Third Court of Appeals...
http://www.groundzerofortomdelay.com/modules....

Here's an indictment for you:

Red Cross finds Bush administration guilty of war crimes

In a secret report last year, the Red Cross found evidence of the CIA using torture on prisoners that would make the Bush administration guilty of war crimes, The New York Times reported Friday.

The Red Cross determined the culpability of the Bush administration after interviewing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, according to the article.

Prisoner Abu Zubaydahwho said he had been waterboarded, "slammed against the walls" and confined in boxes "so small he said he had to double up his limbs in the fetal position."

The information comes from a new book written by Jane Meyer, who has frequently published articles concerning counter-terrorism in The New Yorker....The report was submitted to CIA last year and concluded that American interrogation methods are "categorically" torture that violates both domestic and international law, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported Friday.

Although the CIA had already admitted to the use of waterboarding, Meyer says in the book that several CIA officers confirm the findings of the Red Cross, including the other forms of torture mentioned.

....Maddow questioned constitutional law expert Johnathan Turley about the development.

"The problem for the bush admin is that they perfected plausible deniability techniques," Turley said. "They bring out one or two people that are willing to debate on cable shows whether waterboarding is torture and it leaves the impression that its a closed question.

"It's not. It's just like the domestic surveillance program that the federal court said just a week ago was also not just a closed question."

When asked by Maddow if the chances are now greater that Bush will be prosecuted now or after leaving office by the international community, Turley compared the situation to Serbia in the early 90s.

"I'd never thought I would say this, but I think it might in fact be time for the United States to be held internationally to a tribunal. I never thought in my lifetime I would say that."
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Red_Cross_finds...

video at the link

[bobb]

Why is this old, old, story on this site?

[buttereye]

bobb wrote:

Why is this old, old, story on this site?

They are letting the g.o.p.'s homo;s rest for a while..........

[Will]

trafdlo wrote:

I can't understand why a republican when they get in trouble, they resign. Democrates stay in office and get voted back in again.

What does that tell you about the Republican party,the party of sleeze,Gingrich,Delay, what a bunch of disengenious liars..at least these two scum bags were put out on thier sorry butts and hopefully we won't see them again...(Except on FOX...nuff said.)What are you people thinking(or is that a stretch?) when you put this trash in office?How in the world did this current DOLT that some refer to as President get elected? What are you thinking???

[Citizen]

I hope he gets cancer after a prolonged bout of Alzheimers.

Justice!

[PDean]

trafdlo wrote:

I can't understand why a republican when they get in trouble, they resign. Democrates stay in office and get voted back in again.

did you forget about david vitter & larry craig?

[djm]

Hey Will: "I saw the enemy and he was us".

[Just another poster]

trafdlo wrote:

I can't understand why a republican when they get in trouble, they resign. Democrates stay in office and get voted back in again.

you mean they resign like Mr. Family Values himself - Larry the Toe Tapper Craig?

[Just another poster]

babooph wrote:

Why does God choose such very low grade creeps to be in control of the States?

God doesn't elect our leaders - we do - God help us!

[Kerfuffle]

babooph wrote:

Why does God choose such very low grade creeps to be in control of the States?

God doesn't vote. That said, the electorate is basically a bunch of idiots. On both sides.

[Oliver Cromwell]

What do you get when Craig and Foley go to a fertility clinic and have a hi=brid clone carried to term in a test tube? Tom De lay.

[John]

After provoking a protracted war of attrition in Iraz, the personal wealth of an average American declining, record deficits, support for a "right to bear arms" and abdication of the "right to be free of unreasonable search and seisure (FISA)", devaluation of our currency, and several allies announcing that our leaders are indictable for torturing their citizens, I think the whole Republican party needs to resign.

In its place, we need a party that supports the American economy, controls deficits, applies governments power only where and when it is needed and understands that the bedrock of liberty is the ability to make an honest means by DOING something instead of playing financial shuttle games.

[Dajokerman]

Whoa wait... I thought that this was like 2 years ago???

[Richard USA]

Wow ...was this Totally unexpected or What????

[Just another poster]

Dajokerman wrote:

Whoa wait... I thought that this was like 2 years ago???

It was :)

[Chicago Guy]

trafdlo wrote:

I can't understand why a republican when they get in trouble, they resign. Democrates stay in office and get voted back in again.

Maybe because Republican candidates are typically the most hypocritical, selling themselves on "God, Morality, and Patriotism".

Or maybe its just because DeLay was extremely dirty, and wanted to avoid a public airing of any more dirt while he clung to his job.

Either way, nice job making a story about lying, sleazy Republicans about the Democrats!