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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Just giving you a link bro, this is a host thread after all, every coin has its other side.
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...179853,00.html
<h3>Exclusive: Tom DeLay Says He Will Give Up His Seat
The embattled former Republican leader tells TIME that he will leave Congress and not seek reelection
</h3>By MIKE ALLEN/SUGAR LAND, TEXAS
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* Exclusive Interview: DeLay Tells TIME Why He's Quitting Congress
Posted Monday, Apr. 03, 2006
Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress within months. Taking defiant swipes at "the left" and the press, he said he feels "liberated" and vowed to pursue an aggressive speaking and organizing campaign aimed at promoting foster care, Republican candidates and a closer connection between religion and government.
"I'm going to announce tomorrow that I'm not running for reelection and that I'm going to leave Congress," DeLay, who turns 59 on Saturday, said during a 90-minute interview on Monday. "I'm very much at peace with it."......
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Ustwo, why not back up your comment, quoted above, by posting the "other side" of the Tom Delay "coin".
Time after time, on these threads, you chose to let me have "the last word", in our exchanges. I come here to discuss "politics". My "tactic" consists of displaying, in my posts, the ingredients that shape my opinions and conclusions.
I think that Delay is a corrupt politician, an embarassment to his party, and, if we are a "nation at war", if what has been revealed about Delay in various indictments and guitly pleas is true, a case can be made that he has committed treasonous acts, as well.
Consider your "coin" quote, above, consider that you quote a comment that I made, as your "sig"...it appears under every post you make on every TFP thread, consider not making "host" the issue here. Instead, defend Tom Delay, if you can.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040302145.html
.....DeLay faces a trial later this year on money-laundering charges in Texas that stems from an October 2005 indictment related to corporate contributions to state elections in 2001 and 2002. Since then, two former aides and one of his most prominent contributors have pleaded guilty in a separate federal probe to crimes including conspiracy; wire, tax and mail fraud; and corruption of public officials.
The picture appeared to darken further last week with the guilty plea of Tony C. Rudy, DeLay's former deputy chief of staff. Edwin A. Buckham, the lawmaker's former chief of staff and his closest political and spiritual adviser, was described in court documents filed in the case as someone who collaborated with Rudy, Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former DeLay aide Michael Scanlon. They arranged payments, trips and favors that the department's investigators charged were part of an illegal conspiracy, according to the documents.
DeLay himself was formally designated as "Representative #2" in the documents, a title that cannot be considered a good omen...
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<a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/rudy-factual-basis/?resultpage=3&">The "Factual Basis" for Tony Rudy's Guilty Plea
03-31-2006 - things of value were offered to or accepted by Rudy while he was while he was a staff member in the office of representative #2</a>