Can you believe this shit? DeLay to serve as GOP adviser

[CatWoman]

WASHINGTON -- Indicted Texas Rep. Tom DeLay will serve as a ''very powerful adviser'' to the Republican leadership while he battles the conspiracy charge that forced him to step aside as House majority leader, a GOP spokesman said Thursday.

''His experience and insight for over a decade of the Republican majority is invaluable to our leadership and to our members and will be used wisely,'' said Ron Bonjean, spokesman for Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.).

Bonjean said Hastert and DeLay -- two longtime allies -- met privately in the Capitol one day after the Texan was charged with a single count of conspiracy by a Texas grand jury investigating alleged violations of state election law.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-delay30.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Why should we be surprised?

Just par for the course for these crooks.

[TankLV]

20. The Party of Corrupt Cronyism.

Simply stated.

Perfection.

[atommom]

2. Sheesh. What do we have to do to get rid of these people?

[CatWoman]

3. I think this deserves a letter writing campaign!!!!!

[atommom]

5. Absofreakinlutely. I think I can churn out a few dozen more letters

before I collapse of Outrage Fatigue! :P

[BlueJac]

4. Just another Brownie

[Pepper32]

12. Yep (nt)

[samdogmom]

6. Can I believe it? Yes. Do I accept it? NO.....

I'm getting angrier and angrier. This party just doesn't understand how their audacity can piss off the average American. I hope more and more citizens join me in their outrage.

[louis-t]

7. Advise them how to do what?

be more evil?

[cassiepriam]

10. yes and how to get away with it.... nt

[onenote]

8. believed. expected.

Hey, its their party and they can do what they want, right? I hope they keep making these stupid decisions.

onenote

[cassiepriam]

9. He will be an excellent adviser to all the other crooks and con artists...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. no surprise here. They view it as political, worthy of political response

and he is just the asshole to come up with a political hammer to use on the subject.

But, here I suspect that the US public will tire of that same old, slime mold.

I suspect that with the rest of the PNAC neoconman falling star thingie going on, that even parts of the MSM would start to mention how lame ye olde approach has becometh.

[shance]

13. These people are such cockroaches.

n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. What we need now is a REALLY big shoe

[ashling]

14. You didn't really expect him to just . . . LEAVE?

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
the Wizard of Sleaze

[proud patriot]

16. IOW Blunt will do Delay's bidding

and Delay is still leader

[bunny planet]

17. This calls for lots of letters and phone calls to every member of the so-

called GOP 'leadership' that Hot Tub Tom will be advising. They will try and get away with anything they can unless they think it'll interfere with their reelection, let's remind them that this will indeed interfere with their reelections. It's disgraceful that elected officials, elected by THE PEOPLE, would take advice from someone indicted and under suspicion of wrong doing. They apparently are following the Bush doctrine of dealing with wrongdoing by close advisors and associates. Remember when Bush's policy morphed from 'if I find out any member of my staff had anything to do with this' that person will no longer work for my staff......... to if a member of my staff is indicted then they will be fired....... Apparently GOP 'leadership' takes this one step further, indictment is not enough, they must be convicted before we will divorce ourselves from the tainted individual.

[NYC]

18. This is a lot like Michael Brown resigning.

Resigned, but not gone. They just don't care. They assume they will get away with anything and everything. So far, they pretty much are.

[leesa]

19. Don't you find this intriguing though? They are down to a handful of

insiders they feel they can trust, or those that have them by the nuts, and they have to keep recycling them. This play is getting old. We need a new cast.

[snowbear]

21. The only thing we can take total consolation in.......

....Is regardless of how long it takes this filthy, corrupt administration to kick DeLay out on his ass.....

Someday Mr. Delay will rot in HELL with so many of the nasty, disgusting, LIARS. :mad:

[opihimoimoi]

22. Deluded is arrogant to the point of spitting in our faces..he can get away

with it....so he believes....

But, wait, hold our breaths, the GOPle shows signs of anger at being decieved....Bush is NOT the President they thought they voted for...

Turns out he is anything but....

This bodes ill for the Pubs......