tom delay more like tom delol

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/24/delay-colbert/

esperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert

A good sign that Tom DeLay doesn’t have the facts on his side: the top source for his latest defense against his critics is Stephen Colbert.

This morning, DeLay’s legal defense fund sent out a mass email criticizing the movie “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress,” by “Outfoxed” creator Robert Greenwald.

The email features a “one-pager on the truth behind Liberal Hollywood’s the Big Buy,” and the lead item is Colbert’s interview with Greenwald on Comedy Central (where Colbert plays a faux-conservative, O’Reilly-esque character). The headline of the “fact sheet”:

HOLLYWOOD PULLS MICHAEL MOORE ANTICS ON TOM DELAY
COLBERT CRACKS THE STORY ON REAL MOTIVATIONS BEHIND MOVIE

DeLay thinks Colbert is so persuasive, he’s now featuring the full video of the interview at the top of the legal fund’s website. And why not? According to the email, Greenwald “crashed and burned” under the pressure of Colbert’s hard-hitting questions, like “Who hates America more, you or Michael Moore?”

Apparently the people at DeLay’s legal fund think that Colbert is actually a conservative. Or maybe they’re just that desperate for supporters.

video still at http://www.defenddelay.com/site/c.fuIWL ... 8/Home.htm

[Arborealus]

Sometimes irony can be so ironic...

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So far, the scandal surrounding disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has produced some vivid and memorable examples of modern Washington graft--skybox tickets, pricey restaurant meals, golf junkets to Scotland. Yet at the center of the scandal is something more prosaic, and potentially far more explosive: good old-fashioned campaign donations. Deep in the plea agreements won by Justice Department lawyers are admissions by the defendants--Abramoff and his cronies, ex-DeLay aides Tony C. Rudy and Michael Scanlon--that they conspired to use campaign contributions to bribe lawmakers. Even though these gifts were fully disclosed and within prescribed limits, the government said they were criminal, and the defendants agreed. This aspect of the case has received little attention. But it is sending shudders down K Street. If such prosecutions were to become commonplace, the paid persuaders of Washington and their big-money clients would be dealt a body blow. If prosecutors begin to assert as a matter of routine that lobbyist gifts and campaign contributions are a form of bribery, it could open up a whole new front on the decades-old (and largely ineffective) effort to break the nexus of money and politics in the capital.

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It is quite possible that we'll see a lot more politicians indicted and convicted for bribery. Very few are as egregious as Cunningham, who demanded, on Congressional stationery $50k kicked back for every $1,000,000 in appropriations. But then the Cunningham "probe" has already expanded into taking out the #1 and #3 men at the CIA and gay male prostitutes, like the fake reporter in the whitehouse - Jeff Gannon/Gukert. And at the Watergate Hotel. FFS, couldn't the crooks have at least picked someplace less notorious?

And the K Street Project? Delay kept a list of contributors on his desk, and only allowed "access" to the ones that stopped giving $$ to Democrats. And continued "access" required them to hire Republican staffers.

That was incredibly objectionable and, I thought, illegal; legislation was so clearly tied to finances. And DeLay made no bones about it. He even kept a list of Republican contributors in his desk," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). "Now, it seems the Justice Department is coming around to thinking that it is illegal, and that is an excellent thing."

And that Jefferson guy, I'm glad as heck the feds busted his ass for taking bribes.

Justice Department officials, meanwhile, said Tuesday the decision to search Rep. William Jefferson's office was based in part on Jefferson's refusal to comply with a subpoena for documents that was issued last summer. Jefferson reported the subpoena to the House of Representatives on Sept. 15.

Source October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May. 8 Months after he was served with a subpoena.

But the head Republicans are running scared. Hastert and Boehner are squealing. But then Hastert is also under investigation for bribery. And the House Judiciary Committee will be holding a recess meeting next week to "investigate" the search of Jefferson's office. From what I understand, that sort of meeting is rare, rare, rare. You know, if you or I decided to refuse to let the FBI serve our house or office with a search warrant, there would be SWAT teams at the door within an hour. Not 8 months later.

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i guess i don't make good current events threads, oh well

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