DeLay Won’t Seek Re-Election
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texan touched by a lobbying scandal that ensnared some of his former top aides and cost the Republican his leadership post, won’t seek re-election to Congress, officials said Monday.
They said DeLay also is likely to resign his seat and leave Congress by the end of May.
DeLay was expected to disclose his plans Tuesday, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the congressman had not made that announcement.
Several officials said DeLay called Texas members of Congress to tell them he is dropping out of his re-election race.
“He’ll resign,” a former senior DeLay aide said.
In Exclusive First Interview with TIME’s Mike Allen, Delay Says He Feels ‘Liberated’ And Vowed to Pursue Aggressive Speaking and Organizing Campaign Aimed at Promoting Foster Care, Republican Candidates and Closer Connection Between Religion and Government
New York – Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME on Monday that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress within months. Taking defiant swipes at “the left” and the press, he said he feels “liberated” and vowed to pursue an aggressive speaking and organizing campaign aimed at promoting foster care, Republican candidates and a closer connection between religion and government.
April 3, 2006 - 09:27 PM on April 3rd, 2006
so what? who cares? most people don’t know who he is.
see JDL for my “newish”, poetry of love.called delay the rape of life.
get a new business loan from Zaccaria’s Moussaoui and his brother Bin Laden and the JDL. The guys you want to love in peace and freedom.
DELAY A NEW ONE WORLD VICTIM
April 4, 2006 - 08:04 AM on April 4th, 2006
Are liberals spooging all over themselves right now? I’ll tell you, if delay did anything illegal or innapropriate, I’ll be first one to say, good riddance.
Unlike liberals, I won’t defend law breakers, no matter what party.
April 4, 2006 - 09:03 AM on April 4th, 2006
Hear, hear! Let the chips fall where they may on corrupt politicians. And that’s the fundamental difference between the Left and the Right.
DemokRats have a standard operating plan:
1. Lie & Deny (all of them)
2. Obfuscate (bring in lots of lawyers, paid for by the taxpayers if you can (Klinton).
3. Tamper with, destroy, or “misplace” evidence to impede investigation (example: Rose law firm billing records)
4. Launch a counterattack to further obfuscate the issue: the whole thing is political, it is racist, sexist, etc. The race card is played any time a minority person is the subject (as in the McKinney case).
5. Close ranks to defend the subject, turning it entirely political. (DemokRat defense of Klinton, even though he was guilty as sin).
At least when it is evident that the subject is guilty, that things have gone far enough, Republicans have the decency to say time to go (as with Nixon). DemokRats have no such conscience, no such decency.
April 4, 2006 - 09:09 AM on April 4th, 2006
Got to admit it, this Liberal is pretty darn happy about the Delay resignation.
April 4, 2006 - 09:42 AM on April 4th, 2006
why? what pleases you so much about it? Does it make you nearly as happy as say…
a. When an American soldier is killed by a muslim animal?
b. when an aborted fetus is dismembered and tossed out with the trash?
what makes you the happiest, Sam?
April 4, 2006 - 10:25 AM on April 4th, 2006
It pleases all European Liberals as well, dear Mike! Way, way, WAY to go, Tom! It makes me nearly as happy as say…
a. when the civilized world finally WILL get rid of the most hated president anywhere, ever – lies ALL the time, except three times a day, saying ‘God Bless Naptime’
b. when civilized America WILL finally toss out EVERYBODY out of the White House, with the other trash, of course, i.e. Tom ‘Smelly’ Delay & lots & lots & lots of his bestest bestest buds.
Now, Mike, you were saying almost (but not quite) intelligent stuff there. Back to bed for you now, cry baby. And cry some more.
April 4, 2006 - 10:36 AM on April 4th, 2006
I love how “liberals” like sven spew nothing but hate.
whoever said liberals were tolerant needs to have their head examined.
April 4, 2006 - 10:42 AM on April 4th, 2006
Leftists are fascists. The only difference between them and the Islamofascists is that the Leftofascsists only kill babies (so far).
April 4, 2006 - 11:15 AM on April 4th, 2006
RE: #4.
Mike Kilo, you, in a previous post you ask what makes a liberal happier; the death of a US soldier, or the dismemberment of babies (post #4)…
and then (#6) you accuse the Left of “spewing nothing but hate”????
April 4, 2006 - 11:19 AM on April 4th, 2006
Oh, come on guys. You’re all just upset that the Champion of the Right, Mr. Delay himself, has been brought DOWN TO HIS KNEES by the Left.
hahaha…we win. (childish, I know, but have been holding it in for years with this Delay jerk)
RE: #7.
Yeah Robert, Liberals are fascists.
April 4, 2006 - 11:43 AM on April 4th, 2006
I fail to see your point. I do not dance with glee at the prospect of a fellow american’s misery or problems…maybe you do. I do not sing a song and rejoice that we live in a country that allowes millions of babies to be dismembered and discarded in the trash…maybe you do. I do not sit around with a smarmy smirk on my face when an american soldier is killed in Iraq….maybe you do.
I would put my compassion up against your hate and venom any day of the week.
April 4, 2006 - 12:08 PM on April 4th, 2006
“I do not dance with glee at the prospect of a fellow American’s misery or problemsâ€
Now I just don’t believe you. I think you would be dancing in the streets if Senator Kennedy got in a car accident and drowned in a river.
April 4, 2006 - 12:11 PM on April 4th, 2006
well, I wouldn’t dance with glee, but there would be some inner sense of justice.
Delay never killed anyone.
April 4, 2006 - 12:11 PM on April 4th, 2006
LOL…you DON’T see the irony in your “The Left hates” posts, do you??!!! wow.
I do not dance with glee at the prospect of a fellow american’s misery or problems:maybe you do.
Oh, please. Do I have to even mention the dances of glee that were performed around your Right Wing circles post-impeachment, 1999??
I do not sing a song and rejoice that we live in a country that allows millions of babies to be dismembered and discarded in the trash:maybe you do.
No, but I also wouldn’t sing, dance and rejoice like YOU WOULD that I live in a county where women have to abort their own babies with rusty coat hangers or attempt other unsafe methods of miscarriage instead of having it done in a safe, clean, medical environment. (I’m not trying to convince you that your opinion is wrong, I’m just trying to teach you that you don’t have to be a d*ck about it and assume that the opposition is pro-murder/dismemberment…calm the “F” down)
I do not sit around with a smarmy smirk on my face when an american soldier is killed in Iraq:.maybe you do.
Don’t go there. My best friend was killed in Iraq on April 29th of last year, so no I don’t dance with glee when they are killed. And your baseless accusation is offensive.
No body I know rejoices at the death of soldiers, except maybe your rightwing Westboro Baptist -God Hates F*g Soldiers – Church picketing the funerals of dead soldiers.
April 4, 2006 - 12:14 PM on April 4th, 2006
You absolutely undertand NOTHING about me.
1. I didn’t give a fuck about that buffoon Clinton.
2. Maybe you want to live in a country where babies are murdered in a “clean, safe environment” (not so safe if your the one getting your arms and legs torn off).. however, I want to live in a country where it is no longer necessary.
3. unlike you, I have actually picked up a weapon, took an oatch and stood a post to defend this country. don’t lecture me about the military. I served.
..you’re welcome.
April 4, 2006 - 02:48 PM on April 4th, 2006
If DeLay is guilty of anything, yes, he deserves prison. If he’s innocent, then the Democrats should apologize.
April 4, 2006 - 02:53 PM on April 4th, 2006
He’s guilty of being a conservative..that’s enough for them.
Look at the difference in how McKinney is being treated.
April 4, 2006 - 03:25 PM on April 4th, 2006
RE: #15
He’s guilty of being a conservative..that’s enough for them.
Well, I don’t know what he’s actually guilty of, but I DO know that he is charged with conspiracy and money laundering.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1020051delay2.html
April 4, 2006 - 03:27 PM on April 4th, 2006
RE: #14.
Rocky Lore, if Delay is found guilty, will republicans apologize to democrats for whining like little school kids about how it was all one big “witch hunt”?
I’d seriously doubt it…
April 4, 2006 - 03:29 PM on April 4th, 2006
Well, it’s not like he assaulted a police officer, drove a 19 year old woman into a lake or anything like that.
April 4, 2006 - 03:30 PM on April 4th, 2006
17. if Delay is found guilty, I’ll say “throw the book at him”
We believe in the rule of law.
April 4, 2006 - 04:03 PM on April 4th, 2006
Thanks, Mike. That’s good to know. But I was only asking what I asked because of what post #14 said.
I don’t seriously think anyone should apologize to anyone, except Delay to his constituents. At the very least, he had now-convicted criminals (his former COS) on his staff…
April 5, 2006 - 06:53 AM on April 5th, 2006
San Fran,
There is a big difference between you and I in this respect.. I have no allegiance to some friggin’ congressman from Texas.. If he’s up to no good, lock him up.
You, on the other hand, refuse to take the same view on the criminals in the “progressive” movement… clinton, Kennedy, McKinney currently come to mind.
April 5, 2006 - 08:43 AM on April 5th, 2006
“No body I know rejoices at the death of soldiers, except maybe your rightwing Westboro Baptist -God Hates F*g Soldiers – Church picketing the funerals of dead soldiers.”
What makes you think the WestBoro whackos are right wing? They are just insane.
April 5, 2006 - 08:57 AM on April 5th, 2006
If God really does “hate fags”why doesn’t he just smite them?
April 5, 2006 - 11:12 AM on April 5th, 2006
22, SF Dope head, what about Sen. Schumer? He had a now convicted felon on his staff, the woman who stole Michael Steele’s identity to get his personal credit information. You show your hypocrisy when you have been silent about that while mischacterizing DeLay.
April 5, 2006 - 12:59 PM on April 5th, 2006
PCD…nobody is mischacterizing Delay.
He has a convicted criminal on his staff.
It’s not a lie, it’s the truth. Are you even paying attention to the corruption/Abramoff scandal?
Why are you defending him? Hmmm???
you “dope head”.
April 5, 2006 - 01:00 PM on April 5th, 2006
Oh, and this thread isn’t about Sen. Schumer, it’s about Delay RESIGNING FOR BEING INDICTED IN A CRIMINAL CASE.
I think you lose sight of that in your haste to defend Delay.
(!)
May 1, 2006 - 11:39 PM on May 1st, 2006
sedu flat irons