DeLay to step down?

[priller]

From Kevin Drum's (formerly Calpundit) new blog:

DELAY TO STEP DOWN?....Could it be? From Roll Call (subscription only):

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) has begun quiet discussions with a handful of colleagues about the possibility that he will have to step down from his leadership post temporarily if he is indicted by a Texas grand jury investigating alleged campaign finance abuses.


...Republican Conference rules state that a member of the elected leadership who has been indicted on a felony carrying a penalty of at least two years in prison must temporarily step down from the post.

I actually like George Bush compared to Tom DeLay. Few things would make me happier than to see the former bug exterminator get squashed himself.


Please, please, please make this happen. Ple-e-e-e-ease!

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

[Killarney]

1. Oh, that would make my day if he was indicted.

[Turbineguy]

9. I'd get up to watch that perp walk!

[GOPisEvil]

2. Hehehehehehehehehehehehe

*evil laughter*

You're goin' down, Bug Man! :D

[molly]

3. Please-please-please

make it happen.

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. Now's the time for some more donations to Mr. Morrison! Just to help....

Please God let this be so.....

[mouse7]

5. Drip drip drip n/t

[Kikosexy2]

7. Let's not DELAY...

in sending Delay to prison--har, har--no pun intended--right!

[priller]

6. Realize, now,

that this doesn't mean he's resigning from the House. Just giving up his position as House Majority Leader. Still, a huge blow to a massive ego.

If you want to see what the charges are all about, here's a nice review:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-03-19/pols_feature.html

[Wapsie B]

8. If it went so far as a conviction

after serving a sentence in a country-club jail he'd have his pick of cushy jobs at rw think tanks. I don't just want these people out of office and real Republicans in their place. I want the neocon movement totally destroyed. That would be another step in getting our country back.

[billybob537]

10. Don't delay

Ah the sound of the veneer of invincability cracking. Does a heart good!!!

[CBHagman]

14. I agree with you, but how?

"I don't just want these people out of office and real Republicans in their place. I want the neocon movement totally destroyed. That would be another step in getting our country back."

You are right there, but what is the way to do this? Legal action? Steady discrediting of their philosphies and policies?

To you or me, it's obvious that their policies are fiscally irresponsible, often racist, utterly divisive, and all that, but they have the corporate media's backing and additional cash besides (See Scaife et al). Progressive radio is a beginning, as are the get-out-the-vote movements, but what else?

[Norbert]

11. This must have legs.

It's made the CBS web-site. I really really hope his misdoings is catching up with him.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/25/politics/main608582.shtml

[priller]

12. There are actually a lot more charges than the $190K money laundering

Read the article I posted above from the Austin Chronicle. Lots of monkey business going on.

[Loki]

13. Tom Delay = felony

Don't you just love the sound of those words together. A more corrupt, despicable excuse for a human being you will never find, and watching him go down in flames will make living in Texas worth while.