DeLay says top Dems close to treason

[maddezmom]

Source: Tribune-Review

By Andrew Conte
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, April 24, 2007


Democratic leaders are acting like traitors by opposing the Iraq war, and President Bush must answer with a toughened stance, former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Monday.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "are getting very, very close to treason," DeLay said in a meeting with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

"We have people dying," he said. "Not just our soldiers, but innocent citizens dying in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hands of these evil people, and you have your elected leaders making these kinds of statements that embolden the enemy. It's unbelievable."

~snip~

Bush cannot afford to lose this fight, DeLay said. The president must demand a "clean bill" that does not set a withdrawal date or include so-called pork barrel spending on unrelated projects, he said.

"(Bush) comes back and says, 'I want a clean bill, and unless I get a clean bill with no pork in it, I'm going to veto it,' " Delay said. "See who blinks."

~snip-~

He remains under indictment in his home state of Texas on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.



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yeah, and who sent and keeps sending those soldiers over there to die :puke:

[rpannier]

1. Tom who again???

Oh yeah...that guy who's going to jail on multiple counts of corruption.

Tom, ann 'the shrill voice of treason', sean and shill o'lielly.
The new Gang of 4.

[MAGICBULLET]

70. everytime this weasel is mentioned

you gotta put up the mugshot. that lovely mugshot.

<http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1020051delay1.html>

[adamuu]

85. good call. that says it all n/t

[RiverStone]

2. So Tom, what would you call the lies that led us to into this war? n/t

[MaryBear]

3. Great strategy, Mr. DeLay. Quick, label your opponents.

Do not take a chance that the voters will pay attention to anything but your vile name-calling, oppressive, vindictive shenanigans.

Well, guess what!

We are smart enough to know treason when we see it.

And we see it in you, in Mr. Bush, and in Mr. Chainer, to name but a few of your cohorts.

[rodeodance]

15. there is the .333 or thereabout that Will listen!!

[MaryBear]

18. Top Dems need to counter attack!

Quickly.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

46. I disagree...

He's one step removed from a felony conviction. Tom Delay was never well-like, even among his political allies, and his ranting these days only convinces normal people that the country is better off without him.

This is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by Richard Mellon Scaife. Only right-wing lunatics are listing to this guy any more. Attacking his position (or posting the article on liberal websites) only adds a patina of respectability.

Ignore him and he'll quietly start his prison sentence and assume his status of political footnote.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. What the hell is going on

Why is this criminal in the news so much the past few weeks?

First I saw where he was lying about being free from all legal troubles on Lou Dobbs. Then he was calling for Rosie O'Donnell's resignation. Next he was comparing himself to the Duke University students which were accused of rape. Now this.

What's up?

[Journeyman]

7. What's up with the current Republican caucus? . . .

None of them capable of being spokesman for their side? Too concerned with looming electoral defeat to enter the fray themselves? Gotta get their Plastic Hammer out instead, try to bang their way into public favor using a discredited, indicted, soon to be incarcerated (hope I hope I hope) unscrupulous Bug Man.

What a Party. . .nothing grand about it, not old enough. . .

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. It's his new book

I don't know how I forgot about it, perhaps since it's not on my "must read" list.

He's doing anything he can think of to get in the press to draw attention to his book. No doubt he's spent most of the campaign funds that he had left on his defense and he's getting desperate in regards to generating sales of his book.



A funny aside. Locally a businessman pulled a gun on his wife in a delusional fit. The local police raided his 1.5 million dollar weekend home, which he was living in since his wife threw him out, to serve the warrant. They found both meth and cocaine in the home in a somewhat large amount.

He, being a big money donor to DeLay and loyal Republican chose to use DeLay's attorney since, "he must be the best." He paid the attorney more than $250,000 to defend him.

He's currently serving a 20 year sentence and paying the attorney for his appeal.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

41. There is probably...

More just like him. All this delusion and sociopathy that we see certainly must have an external causative factor in a representative number of cases.

A lot of them seem to feel they are above and beyond the law. When they do, that is the kind of stuff you get.

I often wondered what happened to all the white boy coke dealers from the 80's. I decided they all joined the repukes.

[donkeyotay]

92. They got crime off the streets and into the Republican party

I saw a History Channel piece on organized crime. They said it hadn't gone away, but its operational structure was now unknown. Maybe they should check the GOP.

[frogcycle]

23. you got it

they know damned well their prez-uh-dunce is bonkers. They know that for self preservation they need to get far away from him. But they dasn't do it too early or too publicly or they'll have limpbutt calling THEM traitors. They need to wait until the situation is even worse. So they mostly keep quiet, try to ride it out, and send the broken hammer to be the mouthpiece. He has nothing to lose politically anyway.

[Lasher]

5. There goes The Hamper, playing with the microphone again.

He and Newt keep getting the mic every time our backs are turned. Somebody had better watch them.

[legerdemain]

6. You would think the indictments would take a little bit of the wind out of his sail

"We have people dying," he said. "Not just our soldiers, but innocent citizens dying in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hands of these evil people, and you have your elected leaders making these kinds of statements that embolden the enemy. It's unbelievable












The only thing unbelievable is that this scumbag isn't in jail yet.

[truthisfreedom]

8. Jeepers! I've never felt the hot spit of unjustified righteous indignation from so far away!

Hey DELAY! delay! delay! delay!

Can you hear ME? me? me? me?

You SUCK! suck! suck! suck!

You're full of SHIT! shit! shit! shit!

[Bluebear]

9. Why is this criminial being given so much press? nt

[depakid]

14. Because the paper cited is owned by Richard Mellon Scaife...

A fact the OP might have brought to our attention.

[RT_Fanatic]

21. Indeed, this is a sorry excuse for a newspaper

You need to get a look at their Sunday op-ed page: Novak, Coulter, Buchanan, ALL of the worst neocon scum. They have plenty of home-grown assholes, too.

Only a pathetic rag like this would give DeLay the time of day.

:puke:

[Igel]

56. Novak's a paleocon. n/t

[MGD]

10. Hey Tom DeLay, Fuck off you criminal piece of shit. eom

[depakid]

13. delete

[sam sarrha]

12. closer er get to the reason for the war is the closer we get to * 's Treason

[unblock]

16. so in tommy's world, once you start a war, you're committed for 1,000 years?

i mean, is there a RIGHT way to end a war other than by winning it?

oh, right. the decider might decide to end it. that, of course, would be proper.

[salin]

17. Unless that war was started by a democrat

I would bet dollars to donuts he is on record opposing military action in Kosovo.

[Canuckistanian]

38. Here:

You can support the troops, but not the president

Tom Delay (R-Texas)
on Clinton's actions in Bosnia


Now available in a T-shirt!
http://www.cafepress.com/shop/politics/browse/store/rnastore/787876

[frogcycle]

26. We cannot end the war

We won the war we started, back when bush declared "Mission Accomplished." It is over. We defeated the much-vaunted Iraq1 Army with its Elite Republican Guard and all those scary weapons.


A civil war arose afterwards, and we are not officially taking sides. So we are not fighting a war. We are occupying a country, where some 70% of the people want us to leave.

We failed to follow through on our promises of reconstruction, because we put criminals in charge who robbed us blind.

We do provide some level of security to individuals when our troops are in their area fighting against their enemies. But it is sporadic, and the backlash after we move on is worse than the good we do.

We cannot end the war - neither by "winning" nor by "withdrawing" nor by "cutting and running" because it is not ours to win or lose.

The administration is tilting at windmills, inventing bogeymen to rationalize their continued fools mission. The fool, of course, is the CinC, who happily set off on a "great adventure" to show up daddy and make himself a hero, fooled by the PNAC crowd who were and are after world domination. The "unitary president" is just a step along the way for them to a "unitary world dictator"

[Vinca]

19. Let me guess - this is Tom Delay the great humanitarian, right?? nt

[whistle]

20. I thought this arrogant piece of sh_t was under indictment

[Vogon_Glory]

22. And When al Qaeda Was Busy in Africa, What About YOU?

Do you think we're THAT forgetful, Mr. DeLay? When the al Qaeda terrorists were busy bombing US embassies in East Africa in 1998, what were you and your fellow Republicans doing? Did you put aside your partisan rancor just enough to signal your support for the Clinton administration's efforts to catch the villains who killed over 200 people? Did you take the small bother to say that Americans were united against those who sought to kill us? Did you even take notice of Osama bin Laden's fatwa calling for killing Americans everywhere?

We remember what you and your fellows did. You said that impeaching former president Clinton was more important than pursuing the bombers and spent the remainder of former president Clinton's term playing partisan Republican games while terrorists were busy killing or plotting to kill Americans.

Recuse yourself, mister. You have no business accusing ANYONE of treason.

:nuke:

:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

:patriot:

[frogcycle]

24. AND promoted the so-called "Wag the Dog" smear n/t

[MissMillie]

36. I wish I could recommend this post

Brilliant!

[Cass]

51. Bravo!!

:yourock:

Excellent response, VogonGlory!!

[tanyev]

25. That's rich coming from the man who engineered the K Street project,

one of their key components in the plan to destroy our democracy.

[LeftishBrit]

27. Yes, and the soldiers and innocent citizens wouldn't be dying if the Democrats didn't talk about it?

That is thousands of people KILLED because of Bush et al's dishonest warmongering policies; and Delay is blaming Reid for discussing the situation. Not supporting Bush equals treason, in his warped opinion. Divine Right of Kings, and all that.

Anyway, why are people even listening to that crook?

[MaineDem]

28. Why does anyone give this man a platform to speak?

He's been disgraced; he's a crook. Doesn't the media realize that?

[The Wizard]

29. Sounds like

Old Tom DeLay is getting nervous thinking about salad tossing time in the big house. If Bushigula and Cheney get Impeached and convicted in the Senate he can kiss the pardon goodbye. He likes to come off as some kind of tough guy. What will he do when his cellmate says "You can be the husband. Come on over here and give your wife a blow job?"

[Igel]

57. DeLay's indicted under Tx state law.

* couldn't pardon DeLay if he wanted to. Perry could.

[TheCowsCameHome]

30. Tom, listen up. I'm gong to say it nicely, OK? Nice and slow, now.

GO F**K YOURSELF, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF S**T.

Got that?

Good.

[emanymton]

31. I Am A Traitor!

I am a traitor to lies.
I am a traitor to graft.
I am a traitor to greed.
I am a traitor to grief.

[Xipe Totec]

32. Whoever kicked over Tom DeLay's rock, can you please put it back,

before the cockroach dies of overexposure?

[Tyler Durden]

33. Why isn't this son of bitch in jail yet?

This requires no further comment.

[Massachusetts]

34. Tom, have a glass of Diazanon, PLEASE!

[Spazito]

35. Hmmm, this is the same Tom Delay that said this....

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our overextended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)

and this:

"You can support the troops but not the president"
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)

oh, and this:

Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly."
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)


Gosh, what a surprise, Mr. delay is a two-faced POS.

[louis-t]

72. OP needs to send all 3 of these quotes

to his local rag. Not that they'd print them.

[CrispyQ]

37. Hey Tom, maybe you should sit in on a 5th grade social studies class

when they are studying the US Constitution. You seem to have forgotten the principles our country was founded on & are in desperate need of a refresher.

[Roland99]

39. This from the moran who once said Baghdad was no worse off than Houston!

:eyes:

[Kurovski]

55. So I guess Houston is like a summer's day in an Indiana farmer's market.

So many things are comparable in Bush World. Why go anywhere? Everything's the same.

[Roland99]

59. Where's my pony?!

[Kurovski]

60. Don't forget Poland.

Everyone gets a pony in Poland.

[Roland99]

63. lol!

[Kurovski]

66. I'm glad you got that one.

:) I was worried.

[Roland99]

67. "Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country?"

[Dawgs]

40. Prove it!!

Prove these "statements embolden the enemy". I keep hearing them say it, but I see no proof. I wonder why.

[Javaman]

42. and how come that POS is not in jail yet? nt

[sinkingfeeling]

43. Hey Tom, are you going to indict reality for 'treason'? And just maybe, you GOPers

committed treason when you impeached an elected President for getting a blow job.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

44. Fuck you, Delay.

You and your vile, corrupt, corporate friends can go straight to hell.

[lpbk2713]

45. In other news: Charlie Manson says we ought to do something about the crime problem in America.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[samsingh]

47. he must mean people in his own party

the histronics of these morons only deserves a yawn.

[eppur_se_muova]

48. US citizens say DeLay should be in jail by now. What's the holdup?

This guy seems determined to run through a second career as a wingnut talking head before he sees jail time.

[firefox_fan]

49. Tom's been drinking again.

[Maeve]

50. Dissent is treason, #9 on the 10 Steps to Fascism

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html

[jasmeel]

52. Delay cares about innocent people dying? Since when??

I fucking hate that man. The hypocrisy is maddening!!!!! :puke:

[Triana]

53. Well Republicans have long since surpassed it...

...so.

What IS his point?

[Kurovski]

54. What place or call does a retired exterminator and disgraced public servant

have in a newspaper other than possibly the police blotter?

He's a fucking criminal of the highest order.

Pelosi and Reid have miles to go before they catch up to the treasonous actions of BushCo. Maybe Tom is unclear on the definition of "treason". Someone should tell Tom it doesn't mean "shit I don't like".

I'm even more sick of hearing from that Lying, sanctimonious barf-bag than I am of hearing from Bush himself.

He was put on the curb months ago. Please haul away that rotting dumpster of refuse lest a contagion erupt.

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

58. If the Dems are close to treason then the Repugs

got treason drunk on tequila shots, lured treason up to their apartment with promises of modeling work and blow, then gang fucked treason after treason had passed out on the couch.

[Kurovski]

61. I'd say the Repugs are married to treason and made an "honest woman" out of her.

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

68. Yeah, you got that right

Treason is going mainstream. I bet it'll become the Bushies new favorite buzz-word.

[camero]

62. Tom Eichmann

Good German. Good Boy. :sarcasm:

[librechik]

64. Still under indictment? He claims no. And continues to appear as

respected "political consultant" on the cable news outlets.

[mnhtnbb]

65. Bug off, you lying piece of scum.

[Cha]

69. Don't even go there, delayed

right outta congress cause you're such a treaonous bastard and all the bushits are committing treason on a daily basis.

Is it not treason to lie about the reason going to War On Iraq? Isn't that putting our military in harm's way for profit?

How many crimes have the bushits committed against our country?

[icymist]

71. Oh Mr. DeLay. Which cell block would you prefer?

Do you want to bunk with mumbling Jake whose in here because of sexually exposing himself to men in a park that's reputed for it's increase of 'gay activity' or, maybe, the cell with Ambinal, an ex-motorcycle gang member who want you to 'pooh-pooh' only at six forty five am every other day because that's when the disinfectant spray is applied? I think you have more immediate worries at hand.

[xxqqqzme]

73. why is this soon to be felon getting ANY

media attention? Is the whorporate media that devoid of rabid right whackos that they have to go to roachman?

[maddezmom]

74. he's probably going to wish he hadn't.... google his name today

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DGUS,DGUS:2006-26,DGUS:en&q=Tom%20Delay&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DGUS,DGUS:2006-26,DGUS:en&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&ncl=1115679277&hl=en

[lovuian]

75. Tom the crook

I can't HEAR you

[rocktivity]

76. Rocknation says Delay close to complete insanity

and hopefully, a long federal stretch.

:headbang:
rocknation

[lonestarnot]

77. Incredibly this fuckwad thinks he can still carry water.

[truebrit71]

78. Why isn't this weasel-dick piece of shit in jail yet?

Fuck you bug-man...

[maddezmom]

80. I think his roaches are coming home to roost

check out my journal from today...here are a few headlines.

DeLay associate tied to Abramoff probe(Ed Buckham)
FBI Asks Feeney About Ties To Lobbyist(requesting more information)
Wilkes, Doolittle connections questioned
Inquiry into GOP legislators ramps up
Raided Renzi leaves more House committees
Doolittle crossed path of Abramoff conspirator
Romney's Deputy Campaign Manager Resigns(Feeney's former Chief of Staff)

[ryanmuegge]

79. What a punk. This guy's not a conservative.

A true conservative would be against all of this military intervention and all of the bloated spending that comes along with it. He's committing treason against his own political ideology (which has been the case with every Republican president after Eisenhower).

[DearAbby]

81. Why are people even listening to this person?

isnt he an accused Felon? Scraping the bottom of the barrel to get trash.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

82. ...and we should trust a traitor to tell us who is a traitor?

Right. :eyes:

[cascadiance]

83. TomDelay needs to have his definition of "pork barrel" corrected!

Pork Barrel is not what the Democrats are adding to this bill. They are making corrections that would benefit *ALL* Americans of things that have been neglected for a while, not "local perks" that pork barrel is defined as being when characterizing additions to a bill.

I've just heard this meme from some others so I'm sure that freeper land is echoing his comments here. Read the definition of pork here:

http://www.answers.com/topic/pork-barrel

pork barrel
n. Slang.

A government project or appropriation that yields jobs or other benefits to a specific locale and patronage opportunities to its political representative.

Under idioms...

pork barrel

Government funding of something that benefits a particular district, whose legislator thereby wins favor with local voters. For example, Our senator knows the value of the pork barrel. This expression alludes to the fatness of pork, equated with political largesse since the mid-1800s. (c. 1900)

[superconnected]

84. He sounds like ann coulter now...

Psycho nut.

[Barrett808]

86. I've found that, surprisingly, after getting called a traitor enough times, it loses its sting.

Yawn.

[and-justice-for-all]

87. Why is he talking and why should we care?

He is a CRIMINAL. Fuck him.

The only treason I see is coming from Bush Co.

[DuaneBidoux]

88. Go fuck yourself you motherless fuck (sorry-it has to be said)

[crossroads]

89. LOL - Good one! nt

[anotherdrew]

90. But just before the end even treason might be worth a try This country is to young to die

name that song without google....

[Massachusetts]

91. Delay = MORON

[yellowcanine]

94. As he is a Freeper, it's "MORAN."

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-morans.htm

[yellowcanine]

93. Tom Delay is close to insanity. In fact, he may actually be insane.