From NRO, which includes a brief summary of what it calls the “persecution” rather than “prosecution” of Tom Delay:
There are many legitimate criticisms that may be made of Tom DeLay, from some of his political choices to his appearances on Dancing with the Stars. But he is not a criminal. On the other hand, his defense team’s complaint alleging criminal misconduct on the part of Mr. Earle is persuasive. Unhappily, the same Democratic single-party rule in Travis County (Austin and environs) that allowed Mr. Earle’s circus of a case against Tom DeLay to proceed in the first place ensured that he was never held to account for his gross and shameful abuse of the public trust. Mr. DeLay did not earn his nickname, “The Hammer,” for being a nice guy, but the attempt of Texas Democrats to criminalize politics, and the decade-plus persecution of Mr. DeLay that resulted from it, is an act of corruption in the most literal sense of that word, eroding the legal and political institutions that enable democratic self-rule in a constitutional republic. Mr. DeLay has cause to celebrate today, but for the rest of us this matter, even though properly resolved at last, is a cause for nothing but shame.
DeLay
I take it the other thread on this same topic is NOT going the way you want it to?
http://www.debatepolitics.com/breaking-news-non-msm/173188-delay-conviction-overturned.html
I take it the other thread on this same topic is NOT going the way you want it to?
http://www.debatepolitics.com/breaking-news-non-msm/173188-delay-conviction-overturned.html
If you're talking to me, I read the beginning of a thread that you joined and saw the predictable way it was going and began this one because I hoped for a legit discussion.
looks like you wanted the normal right wing gang attack screaming about communistic degenerate liberals being responsible for all the evil in the world . :roll:
Such silly hyperbole. No, that's not what I want. I never liked Tom Delay, but the ginned up charges have cost him 11 years, which I don't think is fair.
Thank you for demonstrating my reason for creating a separate thread that I hoped wouldn't include knee-jerk partisan posts which communicate only stupid, indefensible exaggerations.
From NRO, which includes a brief summary of what it calls the “persecution” rather than “prosecution” of Tom Delay:
There are many legitimate criticisms that may be made of Tom DeLay, from some of his political choices to his appearances on Dancing with the Stars. But he is not a criminal. On the other hand, his defense team’s complaint alleging criminal misconduct on the part of Mr. Earle is persuasive. Unhappily, the same Democratic single-party rule in Travis County (Austin and environs) that allowed Mr. Earle’s circus of a case against Tom DeLay to proceed in the first place ensured that he was never held to account for his gross and shameful abuse of the public trust. Mr. DeLay did not earn his nickname, “The Hammer,” for being a nice guy, but the attempt of Texas Democrats to criminalize politics, and the decade-plus persecution of Mr. DeLay that resulted from it, is an act of corruption in the most literal sense of that word, eroding the legal and political institutions that enable democratic self-rule in a constitutional republic. Mr. DeLay has cause to celebrate today, but for the rest of us this matter, even though properly resolved at last, is a cause for nothing but shame.
DeLay
The Hammer played smashmouth,hardball politics. He beat Dems at their own game,which is why they wanted him destroyed. Boner and that ilk is what they prefer.
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