Dems reject offer to investigate DeLay

[southernleftylady]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican chairman of the House ethics committee offered on Wednesday to begin an investigation of Majority Leader Tom DeLay to end a stalemate that has kept the panel from functioning this year.

Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Washington, made the proposal at a news conference flanked by three of the four other Republicans on the ethics panel. The evenly divided committee also has five Democrats.

Senior committee Democrat Alan Mollohan of West Virginia quickly rejected the offer, saying his party would continue blocking the panel from operating unless investigative rules imposed by Republicans were changed
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/20/house.ethics.ap/index.html
just saw this and thought i would post it

[NMDemDist2]

1. 14 days!!!!!!!

wow, how you feeling?? :hug:

[southernleftylady]

3. nope not fourteen anymore... i have a date...

to go to the hospital on Tuesday 4/26 at 5 am if i don't have this baby before then!

woohoo!!
less than a week away!!
and I'm feeling HUGE , tired, miserable, did i say huge already ;) lol
I'm ready for this little one to come on out ;)
thank you for asking :D

[DontBlameMe]

5. That's the day my wife's due, too!

[southernleftylady]

7. lol is she feeling horrible too? lol nt

[DontBlameMe]

9. Oh, god, yes!

She can't breathe half the time, acid reflux every night, pees every 20 minutes.

We're both beat, mainly because of my 2 year old who's been terrorizing us for the last 3 months. I swear, if the baby doesn't come soon, I'm doing an emergency c-section myself!

Do you know what you're having?

[southernleftylady]

11. LOL you are too funny..

i have a 3 year old son as well ;)
yes we are having another little boy!
today is our 4th wedding anniversary and my hubby said that if i go into labor today i would neve rhave to give him another anniversary gift ever again ;)
(i think because he is just sick of my bitching and moaning nonstop ;) )
what are you having?
any names picked out?
ours will be William (will) Forest
:)

[DontBlameMe]

14. We decided not to find out the sex, this time.

Or, rather, my wife decided and I don't have the votes to override so...

Names? We're thinking Lauren Marie if it's a girl and Stephen James (not sure on the middle name) for a boy.

[King Coal]

19. How about King Coalito if it'a a boy and King Coalita if it's a girl?

:smoke:

[Andy_Stephenson]

30. I am partial to

Andrew...for a middle name.

[wicket]

12. congratulations Southernleftylady!!!!

Good luck with everything!!! :) :toast:

[southernleftylady]

13. Thank you!!! :) nt

[Gelliebeans]

21. that is the day

I went to the hospital almost 12 years ago. I went in on 4-26-93 at 6 am and my son was born 4-27-93 at 6am (guess he didn't want to come out)
:) good luck to you and best wishes for your new bundle of joy :hi:

[ArchTeryx]

22. Best of luck...

And blessings to you. I'll be going in for a colonoscopy the same day...though that's nothing compared to what you'll be going through!

[southernleftylady]

23. thanks everyone :) yall are so sweet :) nt

[ArchTeryx]

25. Awww...

It's okay. You remind me of a couple of my best friends, living down in Loudon, TN. They're pretty die-hard liberals both, too, and all class. :>

[Andy_Stephenson]

31. A new DU'er the old fashioned way

:bounce:

[sniffa]

2. i was fLipping past foxnews

Last night, i and the headLine was, "repubLicans offer oLive branch to democrats"

fuckers!

[Roland99]

4. One tainted with poison

[leveymg]

6. Insert "whitewash" for "investigate".

Investigate this, Dennis.

:hurts:

[kysrsoze]

18. It will have as much truth to it as the 911 commission report. No dice!

[amber dog democrat]

8. They are banking on a masquerade to pull wool over eyes

There is still that minor technicality about a rigged ethic panel.
This is one of many ploys to come.

Meanwhile I am happy to see DeLay so prominently in the media.
Kind of ironic isnt it?

[indepat]

10. Unlikely the DeLay mess would be unraveled any more than the 9-11

mysteries were unraveled with the investigative rules imposed by Republicans.

[chomskysright]

15. THANK MOLLOHAND (d-wv): Phone: [phone].....

his office carefully took down my name.

[Straight Shooter]

16. Instead of saying "investigative rules imposed," ...

... that should be "investigative rules fabricated by Republicans" or "demanded by Republicans."

The party of DeLay and Bolton does not play nice and it does not believe in teamwork, from the top of the party almost to the bottom.

[Hamsta1]

17. Gee... Didn't see any of this coming.

Do these ploys the Repubes are running strike anybody else as incredibly, insultingly transparent? Props to the dems for sticking by their guns, because an investigation of Tom "Extortionator" Delay's dirty ass sounds very tempting to bring one back to the table. But, ultimately, if you're going to have an investigation, it has to be done right. And if you're going to have an ethics committee, don't make it a hockey game with no puck. The dems have made it very clear that the reason they are holding up the ethics committee is the fact that there's no point in having one if it's stacked up so that one side can block the other. That way nobody gets investigated, the ethically-challenged get away with "lapses in judgement", and we get screwed(that's how these things usually turn out). Meanwhile the pubes are screeching an incoherent array of "obstructionist" "partisan" "politics of personal destruction" and "activist judges"(wtf?). This isn't just about Tom "I am the Federal Government" Delay, but it sure would be nice to see him go down. Talk about needing to get your house in order.

[Rainscents]

20. I'm glad Democrats are rejecting the offer... Let the Texas hang him!!!

[young_at_heart]

24. Those new "investigative rules" MUST go!

The hubris of the Republicans in thinking that they can change rules to their liking is a huge danger to the future of this country.

[UCLA Dem]

26. All these Democrat backbones everywhere!! Are we back or what??!!

[electricray]

27. YAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!

I knew we had it in us. This is the perfect way to respond.

[ailsagirl]

29. Yep, the dems are getting wiser and craftier. They have to be

in order to beat those bastards at their own game.

Keep it coming!!!!!

[Skip Intro]

28. I cannot believe the repukes offered up delay in this failed ploy

SOoooooo glad the Dems didn't go for it, but damn, the repukes must be desperate to offer up one of their own - how can they possibly defend him now? How can they be against investigating delay anymore after they acted as if it was needed?

This is the biggest thing yet that tells me delay is done. His party just tried to sacrifice him.

haa haha ha ha ha hahahaha

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[LatePeriduct]

33. TOM DELAY: BASTION WITHOUT WINGS

Watch him flutter around in your state and area, as hes tied to even more scandals after scandal, and Diebold helped get his TRMPAC to elect him to the House!


http://houseofscandal.org


The man of the hour, bring on the symphony!!!