Delay resigns! Is this old news?

[maveric]

I just got online and yahoo news had this story. I knew that he wasnt going to run but resignation??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060404/ap_on_go_co/delay

[fooj]

1. As of last night...

Welcome to the party!:party: :party: :party:

Peace.

[maveric]

6. Excuse me but FUCKEN-A!!!

He knows his goose is cooked!

[fooj]

10. YEP.

Peace.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Yes, we heard that last night but everyone may not know it yet.

[maveric]

7. Why is CNN not "Hammering" away at this one?

If Nancy Pelosi resigned under similar circumstances, it would be 24/7.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. old, as far as the 24 hour news cycle is concerned

Was announced yesterday afternoon

[evlbstrd]

4. Nearly 18 hours old, I think.

[CottonBear]

5. Yep. Announced live on Scarborough while Al Franken was a guest!

Al got to comment! Ha! :rofl: DeLay called Tweety who called Joe to report the news on live TV!

[BlooInBloo]

8. We'll call you "fashionably late" ;)

[maveric]

9. I've been having Internet connection issues the past 24 hours or so.

And CNN isnt talking about it at all.

[BlooInBloo]

12. CNN's not talking about your internet connection isses?

Those bastards!

(tolly kidding ya)

[BeFree]

11. He's not resigned yet. It was just a promise

We can't trust him. Don't party too hard just yet.

Ya know, we need to plan a Delay resignation party, just in case he is telling the truth.

[NYC]

13. Link to Time article.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1179853,00.html

"I'm going to announce tomorrow that I'm not running for reelection and that I'm going to leave Congress," DeLay, who turns 59 on Saturday, said during a 90-minute interview on Monday. "I'm very much at peace with it." He notified President Bush in the afternoon. DeLay and his wife, Christine, said they had been prepared to fight, but that he decided last Wednesday, after months of prayer and contemplation, to spare his suburban Houston district the mudfest to come. "This had become a referendum on me," he said. "So it's better for me to step aside and let it be a referendum on ideas, Republican values and what's important for this district."

DeLay's fall has been stunningly swift, one of the most brutal and decisive in American history. He had to give up his title of Majority Leader, the No. 2 spot in the House Republican leadership, in September when a Texas grand jury indicted him on charges of trying to evade the state's election law. So he moved out of his palatial suite in the Capitol, where he once brandished a "No Whining" mug during feisty weekly sessions with reporters, and moved across the street to the Cannon House Office Building, home of many freshmen.