Tom DeLay - A Man of Consequence

[qrayjack]

April 05, 2006
Tom DeLay--A Man of Consequence
By Tony Blankley
RCP

A couple of days ago, Tom Delay announced he would resign his Texas seat in Congress by June. His announced departure from office has induced the normal Washington hypocrisies. Democrats express delight but are actually disappointed, as his Texas congressional seat is more likely to now stay Republican and they won't have Tom Delay to kick around anymore.

Republicans express sorrow, but are actually relieved not to have him as an albatross around their party neck. And as someone who has crossed paths (and sometimes swords) with Tom ever since I started as Newt Gingrich's press secretary in 1990, I am of mixed feelings.

I first met him in early 1990, just after Newt had been elected Republican minority whip in the House of Representatives. Tom had been doing the vote counting for Newt's opponent, Illinois Congressman Ed Madigan -- the candidate of the old Republican House establishment. Newt was -- as always -- the insurgent candidate.
MORE (http://www.realclearpolitic s.com/articles/2006/04/tom_delaya_man_of_co nsequence.html)

*A man of consequense for sure. Let's hope there are more like him in the GOP.

[drbillups]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">Republicans express sorrow, but are actually relieved not to have him as an albatross around their party neck.[/QUOTE]

What better example of duplicity could there possibly be?

[myownthinker]

Good riddens Tom...the party is much better off without you

[qrayjack]

...and now that we've heard from the MoveOn crowd...

[Danny]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">Good riddens Tom...the party is much better off without you. [/QUOTE]
Yes, the democratic party seems to believe they'll be better off without him.

If you were referring to the Republican party, you're in desperate need of information that will bring you up to date and [maybe]open your eyes to a whole new world of reality!

[billybigrigger]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">Yes, the democratic party seems to believe they'll be better off without him.[/QUOTE]

Actually I really think they wish he would have stayed.

[billybigrigger]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">Yes, the democratic party seems to believe they'll be better off without him.[/QUOTE]

Actually I really think they wish he would have stayed.

[Danny]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">Actually I really think they wish he would have stayed.[/QUOTE]
After all they've went through to try and bring him down? I don't think so.

Unless they're being the typical dimwits that they are and thought they were actually going to defeat him with confidence along with an added bonus of humiliating him in the process. Which of course, they've failed to do for more than two decades. Even while on their little witch hunt to demonize and attack his character, they failed repeatedly at the ballot box.

However!
They may regret this resignation later on down the road though, as he's more than capable of returning the favor for each and every one of them.

Billy.
Why do you think the traitor party wanted him to stay? I'd really like to hear it.

[billybigrigger]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">Billy.
Why do you think the traitor party wanted him to stay? I'd really like to hear it.[/QUOTE]

It's gives them someone to attack. Fund raising on their part. Money on our part that may have been spent for a lost cause. Be honest with yourself if you could substitute the name Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, or Nancy Polozi for Tom Delay in the following piece you'd be tickled pink! I know I would. This is the kind of ammunition they would be using to pick him off and paint the rest of the party with the broad brush of a culture of corruption.

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail (http://www.washingtonpost.c om/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001480.html )

Many would say that Tom didn't have any idea where this money was coming from and that may in fact be true. But of course some people believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy also.

[Terri]

Geez, I just wonder who's going to miss having Tom DeLay to kick around more.

The Democrats, Billybigrigger or MOT?

Maybe we should run a poll to find out. http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Danny]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">It's gives them someone to attack. Fund raising on their part. Money on our part that may have been spent for a lost cause.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure they have a long list of targets to attack which can be used to help motivate their little commie followers in an effort to bring in the bucks.

Getting rid of Tom Delay is a prize in itself to them. With him out of their way, it allows them more breathing room than they could ever have hoped for. They know how effective and committed he was to the conservative movement and they wanted him gone. I need to remind you that the liberal parasites hate conservatives even more so than you do.

Your liberal-driven-news-source's article says nothing in the way of proof which actually makes any direct connections of any wrong doing.

Anyone with common sense would easily see it was only an attempt to make a mountain out of a mole-hill. Not very impressive at all.

Just another example of just how desperate the liberal news organizations really are and what they'll do to sell a story that rakes in the change for one and assist their liberal ilk with their agenda and continue the &quot;demonization&quot; of yet another member of the GOP for another.

Tom Delay has many connections, so chances are that he can be linked to a number of organizations that could be used to present a potential connection to any lobbyist that may have happened to break the law, so long as it appears as though Tom Delay or whoever they wish to attack looks like a crook.

[Danny]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">Maybe we should run a poll to find out[/QUOTE]
Can we? that would be interesting.

[billybigrigger]

Gee! Wiz! He didn't leave because I wanted him to leave. He left because the party high ups wanted him to leave.

That is why on the weekend of Jan. 6 this year, party leaders quietly urged Tom to give up not only any claim on returning to the majority leader's slot, but also his now vulnerable Texas seat. That is why on the Jan. 6 broadcast of &quot;The McLaughlin Group&quot; I predicted that he would give up his leadership claims within a week -- and probably his house seat thereafter. He gave his leadership claims up the next day, and his House seat earlier this week.

The above was from your post!


The president didn't ask him to stay on. (I heard him say that in an interview with Rush) Why! Because he was hurting the party. I had nothing to do with it. He's never denied anything in any of these articles. He's just said it wasn't illegal. I'll leave it up to you to decide if it was eithical. All I was doing was pointing out what the dems would have used to attack Delay and try to link the whole party to a culture of corruption is what I think they say.

If you want to stick you head in the sand and not know what your up against then by all means do it. I prefer to know what's coming so you don't get blindsided.

[Terri]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">Can we? that would be interesting. [/QUOTE]

http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin5.gif

[qrayjack]

It would be interesting, wouldn't it. It would also be interesting to get this story straight. Some people like to play games with the reasons for DeLay leaving office. With a concerted, in some cases coordinated, continuous assault from Democrats, their nutcase base websites and the MSM, not to mention some people who pretend to be who they're not, DeLay was drummed out of office ala Trent Lott, Scooter Libby and the aborted attempt to destroy Karl Rove. The motive is hated. Hatred of a strong GOP leader who politically outmanuevered the Dems. Texas redistricting (it's only OK when the Democrats do it), keeping House Republicans in line, etc. you name it, DeLay was too good at the job. Democrats can't win in the arena of ideas and at the ballot box, so they resort to character assassination as with DeLay. It's called the politics of personal destruction and the Dems thrive on it.