NOW HERE'S A SHOCKER FOR THIS MORNING

Tom DeLay is not going to run for reelection. The official announcement will be made today. This is a huge victory for Democrat headhunters. DeLay was the second most powerful Republican in Congress ... and they brought him down; with no small amount of help from him, by the way. The scalps are piling up. Trent Lott, now Tom DeLay.

Did DeLay just throw himself on a grenade for the Republicans? Some will say that he's pulling out because he wants a Republican candidate in the race unsullied by the Democrat attack machine. I wonder, though, if he's not just tired of it all. He's 59 now, and making less than $150,000 a year. Every move is watched. He can't so much as clip his nails at a dinner table without drawing attention. He will have made more money from speaking engagements by next March than he has made in the last two years in the House of Representatives. Reason enough to bail right there.



By the way ... Tom DeLay was a huge supporter of the FairTax. In that regard, he'll be missed.

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Democrats must be celebrating. This could be a preview of things to come for the Republicans. With Bush's entire second term being a disaster, spending at record levels and government inaction on illegal immigration, the GOP's track record isn't too good. You add on top of that higher gas prices and the war in Iraq...and they won't do too well with independent voters either. This fall's mid-term elections could be rough sledding. The socialists only need 15 seats to take control of the House in November. Then they can begin their work on destroying talk radio and impeaching George Bush! Too bad the Republicans don't really have an imaginative agenda that the people will be eager to support this November.

The only thing we can hope for is the Democrats' usual incompetence. As usual, the left is not unified...and has a muddled message. Rather than get a group of candidates together and say exactly what they're going to do, you have Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid running the show.

When the only political break you can catch is when you're opponent is incompetent, that's pretty sad.


By: Boortz

Delay's new job will probably be as a rich lobbyist.

Delay's new job will probably be as a rich lobbyist.I doubt it. Politicians will want to keep their distance from him in the forseeable future, and if he's convicted you can forget it altogether. He'll make a bundle on the public speaking tour, write a book or two and maybe get a talk radio show. Oh, but wait ...

The socialists only need 15 seats to take control of the House in November. Then they can begin their work on destroying talk radio and impeaching George Bush!

... he'd better hurry because those free speech-hating socialists are on the way!

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Creators Syndicate) -- Forget the freebie trips across the Atlantic and the Pacific. Forget the casinos and the allegedly illicit contributions -- they represent only degrees of avarice.

To grasp the moral bankruptcy of the public Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, you only have to know about Frank Murkowski and Saipan.

Today, Frank Murkowki is the governor of Alaska, but from 1980 to 2002, he was a conservative Republican senator from Alaska.

How conservative? His voting record earned him zero ratings from organized labor's AFL-CIO and the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and perfect 100s from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Conservative Union.

But as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Frank Murkowski became furious at the abusive sweatshop conditions endured by workers, overwhelmingly immigrants, in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, of which Saipan is the capital.

Because they were produced in a territory of the United States, garments traveled tariff-free and quota-free to the profitable U.S. market and were entitled to display the coveted "Made in the USA" label.

Among the manufacturers that had profited from the un-free labor market on the island were Tommy Hilfiger USA, Gap, Calvin Klein and Liz Claiborne.

Moved by the sworn testimony of U.S. officials and human-rights advocates that the 91 percent of the workforce who were immigrants -- from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- were being paid barely half the U.S. minimum hourly wage and were forced to live behind barbed wire in squalid shacks minus plumbing, work 12 hours a day, often seven days a week, without any of the legal protections U.S. workers are guaranteed, Murkowski wrote a bill to extend the protection of U.S. labor and minimum-wage laws to the workers in the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas.

So compelling was the case for change the Alaska Republican marshaled that in early 2000, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Murkowski worker reform bill.

But one man primarily stopped the U.S. House from even considering that worker-reform bill: then-House Republican Whip Tom DeLay.

According to law firm records recently made public, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, paid millions to stop reform and keep the status quo, met personally at least two dozen times with DeLay on the subject in one two-year period. The DeLay staff was often in daily contact with Abramoff.

DeLay traveled with his family and staff over New Year's of 1997 on an Abramoff scholarship endowed by his client, the government of the territory, to the Marianas, where golf and snorkeling were enjoyed.

DeLay fully approved of the working and living conditions. The Texan's salute to the owners and Abramoff's government clients was recorded by ABC-TV News: "You are a shining light for what is happening to the Republican Party, and you represent everything that is good about what we are trying to do in America and leading the world in the free-market system"

Later, DeLay would tell The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin that the low-wage, anti-union conditions of the Marianas constituted "a perfect petri dish of capitalism. It's like my Galapagos Island."

Contrast that with what then-Sen. Murkowski told me in a 1998 interview: "The last time we heard a justification that economic advances would be jeopardized if workers were treated properly was shortly before Appomattox."

The "Made in the USA" label means standards of quality and standards of conduct.

But more important than how a product is made is how the people who make that product are treated -- as human beings with innate dignity -- who are free to organize and entitled to a living wage.

Did somebody say something about moral values?

... he'd better hurry because those free speech-hating socialists are on the way!

:hides::eek:

I wonder, though, if he's not just tired of it all. He's 59 now, and making less than $150,000 a year. Every move is watched. He can't so much as clip his nails at a dinner table without drawing attention.

"TIRED OF IT"...................?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

He's a scumbag CROOK of the first order who got CAUGHT!!!........THAT is why he's quiting.

"Tired of it" my aching ass.

I have to agree - the only reason he is quitting is because he knows the game is up.

It evidently clear that this guy was as crooked as crooked can be.

He's a scumbag CROOK of the first order who got CAUGHT!!!........THAT is why he's quiting.

And on his way out he said something to the effect of, "I'm confident I would win the election should I run." Not surprising, how that is probably true.

He knows he can't hold his seat from Jail.

This guy is going to jail & he should count himself lucky that he won't be in court over 99.99% of his abuses.

The guy is a smiling shit bag.

All you have are empty charges. You had to go grand jury shopping just to find a grand jury that would play ball your way.

Innocent until proven guilty, unless you are not liberal then it is the other way around.



He knows he can't hold his seat from Jail.

This guy is going to jail & he should count himself lucky that he won't be in court over 99.99% of his abuses.

The guy is a smiling shit bag.

It's quite interesting to watch the media and the Democrats spin Tom DeLay's decision not to run for re-election to Congress this fall. The mainstream media would love you to think that this is bad news for Republicans. Perhaps not! Some Republicans are doing cartwheels up and down Pennsylvania Avenue right about now. Why? Because just like when Newt Gingrich stepped down several years ago, a lightning rod has been removed. Democrats are now being deprived of their bogeyman. DeLay had been in the news for all sorts of reasons...none of them good. His resignation takes him out of the headlines. So while Democrats did take him down, Republicans are relieved to see him go.

And what of the Democrats? Even though DeLay was their target, they didn't want him to leave so soon. Now they don't have someone they could run against nationally this fall. Their muddled message will become even less clear. If they want to rail against the 'culture of corruption,' who are they going to use as an example? DeLay's gone...well, there is Randy Cunningham, but he's sitting in jail.

So in the end, the Democrats scored a hit...but they hit the bulls eye a little too soon. Republicans couldn't be happier. It's a win-win situation, with the left winning a little less than the right. By this November, nobody will be talking about Tom DeLay and he'll be ancient history.

I think the real winner here is the American public.

It's quite interesting to watch the media and the Democrats spin Tom DeLay's decision not to run for re-election to Congress this fall. The mainstream media would love you to think that this is bad news for Republicans. Perhaps not! Some Republicans are doing cartwheels up and down Pennsylvania Avenue right about now. Why? Because just like when Newt Gingrich stepped down several years ago, a lightning rod has been removed. Democrats are now being deprived of their bogeyman. DeLay had been in the news for all sorts of reasons...none of them good. His resignation takes him out of the headlines. So while Democrats did take him down, Republicans are relieved to see him go.

And what of the Democrats? Even though DeLay was their target, they didn't want him to leave so soon. Now they don't have someone they could run against nationally this fall. Their muddled message will become even less clear. If they want to rail against the 'culture of corruption,' who are they going to use as an example? DeLay's gone...well, there is Randy Cunningham, but he's sitting in jail.

So in the end, the Democrats scored a hit...but they hit the bulls eye a little too soon. Republicans couldn't be happier. It's a win-win situation, with the left winning a little less than the right. By this November, nobody will be talking about Tom DeLay and he'll be ancient history.You did not write this, gmsisko1. Look: no spelling errors! grammatically correct! You copied and pasted this from somewhere without giving credit to the source.

That's stealing.

Don't you know that plagiarism is against the law?

Don't you know that plagiarism is against the law?

Quiet, liberal scum!

It's quite interesting to watch the media and the Democrats spin Tom DeLay's decision not to run for re-election to Congress this fall. The mainstream media would love you to think that this is bad news for Republicans. Perhaps not! Some Republicans are doing cartwheels up and down Pennsylvania Avenue right about now. Why? Because just like when Newt Gingrich stepped down several years ago, a lightning rod has been removed. Democrats are now being deprived of their bogeyman. DeLay had been in the news for all sorts of reasons...none of them good. His resignation takes him out of the headlines. So while Democrats did take him down, Republicans are relieved to see him go.

And what of the Democrats? Even though DeLay was their target, they didn't want him to leave so soon. Now they don't have someone they could run against nationally this fall. Their muddled message will become even less clear. If they want to rail against the 'culture of corruption,' who are they going to use as an example? DeLay's gone...well, there is Randy Cunningham, but he's sitting in jail.

So in the end, the Democrats scored a hit...but they hit the bulls eye a little too soon. Republicans couldn't be happier. It's a win-win situation, with the left winning a little less than the right. By this November, nobody will be talking about Tom DeLay and he'll be ancient history.

Kid yourself not - Delay has severaly damaged the GOP and his smell will still be in the air leading up to the november elections and the '08 elections.

He claims he is clean yet 2 of his aides (in his office) have pead guilty to corruption charges and a 3rd aide is positioning to do the same. Those 3 are facing serious prision time and you can bet your last dollar they will roll over on Delay to save their own behinds.

The Abramof connection are still lurking in the shadows and more than likely will eventually result in federal charges for the texas exterminator.

Delay's troubles are just beginning and the dems should be able to ride the anti-corruption horse right into a house majority.

The real reason he stepped down? Simple -- he wants to spend his campaign funds on his defense and not waste it on trying to hold his seat.

Yesterday Delay announces he will step down.
Today 4 republicans break ranks.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Several_House_Republicans_call_for_debate_0405.htm l

MCKINNEY GOES TO GRAND JURY

Cynthia McKinney's troubles keep mounting. First, none of her Democratic colleagues came forth to support her in her time of need. Now her case is headed to a federal grand jury. McKinney's attorney says there is not enough evidence for an indictment. Here's an interesting question, though.

She's sure to be indicted....federal prosecutors almost always get what they want from grand juries. When she gets indicted for striking a Capitol Hill police officer, will the same people who called for Tom DeLay's resignation after his indictment call for her to step down? After all, DeLay never hit any Capitol Hill cops.

And imagine if this were you or I hitting a Capitol Hill police officer. Would there be a grand jury proceeding? Uh...no. After sitting in jail for a couple of days, there would be charges filed. But because Cynthia McKinney is a member of Congress, she gets special treatment.

The Congressional Black Caucus met last night to discuss the issue. It will be interesting to see what they have to say.

No one has proven anything on Delay. Innocent until proven guilty. Unless you are a liberal pointing at a conservative.

Mckinney she is toast. She smacked a cop and it is on camera.



Kid yourself not - Delay has severaly damaged the GOP and his smell will still be in the air leading up to the november elections and the '08 elections.

He claims he is clean yet 2 of his aides (in his office) have pead guilty to corruption charges and a 3rd aide is positioning to do the same. Those 3 are facing serious prision time and you can bet your last dollar they will roll over on Delay to save their own behinds.

The Abramof connection are still lurking in the shadows and more than likely will eventually result in federal charges for the texas exterminator.

Delay's troubles are just beginning and the dems should be able to ride the anti-corruption horse right into a house majority.

The real reason he stepped down? Simple -- he wants to spend his campaign funds on his defense and not waste it on trying to hold his seat.

MCKINNEY GOES TO GRAND JURY

Cynthia McKinney's troubles keep mounting. First, none of her Democratic colleagues came forth to support her in her time of need. Now her case is headed to a federal grand jury. McKinney's attorney says there is not enough evidence for an indictment. Here's an interesting question, though.

She's sure to be indicted....federal prosecutors almost always get what they want from grand juries. When she gets indicted for striking a Capitol Hill police officer, will the same people who called for Tom DeLay's resignation after his indictment call for her to step down? After all, DeLay never hit any Capitol Hill cops.

And imagine if this were you or I hitting a Capitol Hill police officer. Would there be a grand jury proceeding? Uh...no. After sitting in jail for a couple of days, there would be charges filed. But because Cynthia McKinney is a member of Congress, she gets special treatment.

The Congressional Black Caucus met last night to discuss the issue. It will be interesting to see what they have to say.

1st - there is no proof (so far) of her hitting the cop (other than the cops buddies and a couple of staffers that were probably paid off) -- her apology notwithstanding.

2nd - why not just show us the security camera replay and we'll solve this puzzle in a NY heartbeat ... she either did or didn't. OH, yeah, that's right ... there's no security camera available in the capitol bldg just like there were no security cameras on the pentagon. ROTFLMAO.

This is revenge for the dems taking down Delay ... plain and simple.