DeLay Reveals Plan To Have Texas Legislature Depose Ronnie Earle

[kpete]

From THINK PROGRESS:

DeLay Reveals Plan To Have Texas Legislature Depose Ronnie Earle
On an interview this morning on Fox News Radio’s Tony Snow Show, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) revealed a plan to have the Texas legislature depose district attorney Ronnie Earle, the prosecutor who charged DeLay with money laundering:

Transcript:

SNOW: Okay, so at this point, you know — are you willing to let bygones be bygones?

DELAY: Absolutely not. Texas should not allow a district attorney from Travis County have this kind of power. And they can take his power away from him because there was the Texas legislature that gave him this power. And I think that will happen in the next session of the Texas legislature.

SNOW: Oh, really?

DELAY: Yes.

DeLay sounds like someone who is really confident of his ability to win on the merits in a court of law.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/04/deposing-ronnie-earle/

[tanyev]

1. Uhhh...so how does an indicted and departing national legislator

have the power to make something like this happen in the TX state legislature? Hmmmm?

[kpete]

3. illusions of grandeur...

[Richardo]

8. Don't forget "resident of Virginia"

Sorry, Tom, you're not even a Texan anymore.

Thank God.

[Inland]

2. And they would do that for Delay, why?

Hey, Tom, you're one of us, one of us, one of us. You don't get to pick your prosecutor, don't have clout anymore. Fuck you, Tom, welcome to America.

[babylonsister]

4. Visions of grandeur and power? I don't think he has any of

either left.

[amitten]

9. No...but he might be batshit crazy.

:shrug:

:eyes: :nopity:












:bounce:

[WI_DEM]

5. He Huffs, and he Puffs and without any more power he is all talk

back to the bug business for you, Delay! lots of roaches in prison.

[wtbymark]

6. and Earle should sue

[Jim Warren]

7. Wanna make a bet?

I'll bet the bugman beats the criminal rap and ends up a DC lobbyist making a shitload of dough.
He ain't giving away all that clout he muscled up.

[donkeyotay]

10. Great. Sic a legislature on a prosecutor for blatantly partisan reasons

When they're done with that case, send them to Washington to depose the president over plamegate and lies for war. Or, are they sticking with, "We don't comment on an ongoing investigation" there?