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Feds clear DeLay after six years

Grim17

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This is what I would consider "Breaking News", but because our lame-stream liberal media will be in no hurry to report this, it is relegated to the lower depths of this forum.

Breaking news, is breaking news no matter who chooses to report it.


Feds clear DeLay after six years - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
 
FWIW, Politico can go in the BN forums.
 
Payback's a bitch ... if Issa get's his way and there's enough Republicans - watch the subpoena's fly. Politicians tend to either forget or deny power changes in Congress... the tit-for-tat will continue.
 
Convictions and legitimate charges are not necessarily the goal with a lot of allegations against politicians. Delay was taken out of the ballgame and that was probably all that mattered.
 
jambalaya said:
Convictions and legitimate charges are not necessarily the goal with a lot of allegations against politicians. Delay was taken out of the ballgame and that was probably all that mattered.
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Correct. They did the same thing with the senator from Alaska and helped get a veto proof senate as a result.
 
jambalaya said:
Convictions and legitimate charges are not necessarily the goal with a lot of allegations against politicians. Delay was taken out of the ballgame and that was probably all that mattered.
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That was all it was ever about... It was just to discredit him and the republicans in DC. There was never any validity behind the charges.
 
Grim17 said:
That was all it was ever about... It was just to discredit him and the republicans in DC. There was never any validity behind the charges.
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It is good to show everyone that when a Republican is accused of a crime, they get run out of DC, but Dem's?

Anyone see Rangel Birthday party?
 
Delay was investigated by a justice department under a firmly Republican federal government. Whatever the motivation, partisan politics obviously wasn't the answer. Delay took many personal gifts from Jack, including travel expenses and skyboxes. It was quite reasonable to investigate him given the circumstances. Furthermore, the pressure to resign came from the Grand Jury indictment in Texas, a case which not concluded.
 
MrVicchio said:
It is good to show everyone that when a Republican is accused of a crime, they get run out of DC, but Dem's?

Anyone see Rangel Birthday party?
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Democrats in general will fight to the end to stay in office regardless. Look at Congressman Jefferson from Louisiana. Caught absolutely read handed and just refused to go. People like him and Rangel become so corrupt and so entrenched in the power of office they put themselves way above the law. I think Democrats especially have the attitude that they do so much for American and their constituents that the deserve special treatment under the law. The law is for the unimportant people. We need term limits people.
 
Give it time.. the cases against him are not over.. he was corrupt.
 

Yes, he was in the Dallas Morning News today. He should have prayed for a federal punishment that he could have served in Segoville (Fed pen that looks like a college campus), instead he's going to wind up in the State pen in Huntsville if they find him guilty of the money laundering charges that he's currently facing.
 
This guy is such a creep.

He said in an interview that the reason he took lobbyist paid trips was to save the taxpayer money.

No, dummy, you're supposed to pay for your own Golf trips and 5-star resorts.

What an asshole.
 
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