DeLay Must Go (From Balloon Juice)

[DemoVet]

I don't think I am being a 'weak-kneed' Republican, nor am I simply bending to the demands of my 'liberal masters' when I state that it is simply time for Tom DeLay to go. In the past, I have defended him, because I, too, instinctively suspect partisan politics in any ethics violation charge, particularly when characters like Ronnie Earle are involved.



Tom DeLay is crooked, self-serving, hypocritical, unethical, bigoted, unprincipled (unless the principle is power), a loudmouth bully boy and venomous attack dog, incapable of recognizing the separation of powers, and, since that isn't going to be enough for many of you, let's put it in a framework of self-preservation:

Tom DeLay is bad for the Republican party.

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Tom DeLay is a moral midget and an unethical hired gun that we need to get rid of. I understand many of you think that he is vital to advance a 'conservativee' agenda. Not so. If Tom DeLay is still the majority leader in 2006, I won't be voting Republican. I may not vote for the Democrats, but I will not be voting Republican. I have a conscience and I need to sleep at night.

And for those of you who think DeLay must go, but think that calling for him to be pushed aside or step down weakens Republicans and strengthens Democrats, pay no attention to the calls from Democrats- they probably do have their own partisan reasons for wanting DeLay gone. But when you treat the human body for cancer, it is inevitable that the chemotherapy will weaken the body in the short term. This is, however far preferrable for letting the cancer remain and grow.

More.... http://www.balloon-juice.com/archives/004913.html

And this is from a Conservative weblog. It looks like there's growing sentiment on the other side to withdraw life support from this morals-dead wad of flesh.
Personally, though, I think I share the sentiments of many Democrats/Progressives in feeling that I like the Bugman right where he is, the poster boy for everything that is debased, corrupt, anti-democratic, and hypocritical about the present-day republican party. Let them twist, squirm, writhe, and whine all they want, their party's future is being sacrificed on the funeral pyre of DeLay's unprincipled political ambitions and the longer those flames burn the better, preferrably all the way through the midterm elections.

Then we can all have some fun.