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    DeLay not to seek reelection to House!

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    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Tom DeLay will drop out of his re-election race, two Republican congressional sources told CNN Monday.

    DeLay was forced to step down as House majority leader last year after being indicted in his home state of Texas.

    DeLay told Time magazine Monday that he and his wife, Christine, had been prepared for an election battle, but that he decided Wednesday to spare his suburban Houston district the mudfest to come.

    "This had become a referendum on me," he told the magazine. "So it's better for me to step aside and let it be a referendum on ideas, Republican values and what's important for this district." (Full storyexternal link)

    DeLay was calling supporters and colleagues Monday night to tell them of his decision, the sources told CNN. He was expected to announce his departure at a news conference Tuesday morning.

    Last month, DeLay easily won a contested Republican primary for his seat.




    Rumor is that DeLay is going to try to make a deal with prosecutors and plead guilty on the money laundering charges in return for immunity on other stuff.
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    If these bastard doesn't go to jail then there is no justice.

    Does anyone actually believe that the Republican House leader was just one bad apple and that the corruption doesn't go much, much deeper? Hell, the Congress has already white washed the corruption and has attempted to sweep it under the rug. They wouldn't even allow the creation of an ethics committee which can legally enforce it's own rules. Instead individual members are supposed to police themselves and if they break the rules they're supposed to punish themselves.

    What a joke.
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    • #3
      Damn. I was looking forward to personally campaigning against him, heckling him, etc. (by cooincidence I'll be moving just outside his district). And watching him lose.

      Unfortunately, DeLay was Nick Lampson's best shot at a victory. Just about any other Republican in CD 22 is a favorite in the election.
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      • #4
        He'll run for POTUS.
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        • #5
          I'm glad to see him go, and think it would be a good thing overall to see some new blood in the House, despite the GOP losing a cycle.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Ramo
            Unfortunately, DeLay was Nick Lampson's best shot at a victory. Just about any other Republican in CD 22 is a favorite in the election.
            That's why Delay is out of the race, no doubt. I suspect a Rovian intervention.
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            • #7
              I will say, however, that he was one the most effective house majority leaders in history.
              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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              • #8
                Only because he was laundering money and promised to cut off the money supply to any Republican who didn't tow the line. Pure, unadulterated, corruption.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by AnnC


                  That's why Delay is out of the race, no doubt. I suspect a Rovian intervention.

                  Karl Rove is not some sort of omniscient overlord a la the Wizard of Oz. DeLay, for all his faults, is an excellent politician and probably saw the writing on the wall. I'm betting pretty soon after the primary someone at the RNC/NRCC probably started writing contingancy plans as to when the best time for DeLay to drop out. It probably wasn't an easy decision. He's giving up the bully pulpit and all the power and trappings of being one of the most poweful men in Washington, D.C. That's not easy.

                  Besides, right now is the perfect time. It's part of the way through the week during the last week of the legislative session before a two week district work period. Now the best time do it; he can do a two week district tour drumming up some support and good media. Then, if Texas laws aren't too complicated, he can annoint a fairly clean successor that he didn't go up against in the primary who can clean Nick Lampson's clock.

                  P.S. I guess I need to retire my "Golden Hammer" lapel pin.
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                  • #10
                    Karl Rove is a tool of Skynet -- FACT!
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                    • #11
                      DeLay, for all his faults, is an excellent politician and probably saw the writing on the wall.
                      Right, but I think you have the wrong writing in mind.

                      On Friday, his former chief of staff pleaded guilty to conspiracy and promised to help with a federal investigation of bribery and lobbying fraud relating to Abramoff. Tony Rudy admitted conspiring with Abramoff _ both while Rudy worked for the Texas congressman and after he left the lawmaker’s staff to become a lobbyist himself.

                      Rudy is the second former DeLay staffer to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with the lobbying probe. Michael Scanlon, a former DeLay press secretary who later became a lobbying partner with Abramoff, pleaded guilty last fall to conspiring to bribe public officials.
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                      • #12
                        Any bets on who will be convicted first, McKinney or Delay?
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                        • #13
                          I guess we shouldn't be surprised that a true fvckup like McKinney is in the congress. After all, Trafficant was able to get reelected so many times...
                          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Timexwatch
                            Karl Rove is not some sort of omniscient overlord a la the Wizard of Oz.
                            corrected.

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                            • #15
                              The idea that McKinney is anywhere near the same league as DeLay, either in terms of relevance within their parties or magnitude of corruption...
                              "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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