PAYBACK'S A BITCH, EH, BUGMAN?
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia refused yesterday to block an appeals court ruling to keep former congressman Tom DeLay as the Republican candidate on the ballot, all but ensuring that the former House majority leader will stand for election in November for his suburban Houston district.
DeLay was under indictment in Texas and facing a possible House ethics investigation when he resigned his seat in June and announced he would move to Alexandria in hopes of removing his name from the ballot.
--"GOP Loses Bid to Drop DeLay from the Texas Ballot," Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post, August 8, 2006.
What cracks me up the most about DeLay's failed bid to manipulate the Constitution, the Courts, and God Himself to get his ruthless way yet again was that the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court--the very one who made the swing vote that put George W. Bush in the White House in the first place back in 2000--took less than two hours to kick DeLay back to the curb.
For years now, while stealing money from well-meaning Christian doners to his various "family" organizations, which were merely fronts for money-making enterprises for Tom DeLay and Family, while terrorizing any Congressman who got in his way while, at the same time, giving convicted felon Jack Abramhoff whatever his little heart desired in return for yet more graft and corruption, while restructuring the entire state of Texas to keep it red and send more red Congressmen to the Hill...
...All that time, Tom DeLay (the former exterminator who keeps his bug-killing license current) was ranting and raving--among other things--about "activist judges," only the things he was saying went beyond the pale for what most conservative activists had in mind while lobbying for, say, John Roberts's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
No, DeLay was not content to merely work to put the judges he liked on the bench. He went so far as to propose legislation that would severely limit the power of the United States court system and make it subservient to Congress--in direct violation of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and any other accepted legal standard known to God or man. He wanted to prosecute federal judges who disagreed with his extremist agenda. He even intimated that it was all right to target judges we disagree with by harrassment, and failed to condemn horrendous acts of violence against judges, basically stating that some of them deserved it.
When DeLay was indicted in a Texas court of law, he raised high holy hell that the Democratic judge was in on some nasty liberal conspiracy to ruin him, and the judge was replaced. Then he started in on THAT judge, intimating that he wasn't doing his job if he sent DeLay to trial. His attorneys had spread all kinds of lies about the original judge in the case, claiming that he'd even ordered a T-shirt from liberal group MoveOn.org that depicted DeLay's mug shot on the front.
Problem with that is that MoveOn.org has never--not EVER, not ONCE--offered T-shirts of ANY KIND, much less T-shirts with DeLay's smug self-righteous arrogant smirk on the front.
Even when he was going before judges, he was still mouthing about how our legal system ought to be in the hands of good congresspeople--like himself--rather than something so mundane and open to interpretation as the Constitution. No other congressman has ever gone so far in their diatribes against the American judiciary as Tom DeLay.
A Republican federal judge in Texas ruled in favor of the Democratic argument last month, and that ruling was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans last week. With the election less than 100 days away, Texas Republicans appealed to the Supreme Court yesterday to stay the appeals court ruling and allow them to pick a new candidate to stand against Democrat Nick Lampson in November. That appeal was routed to Scalia, who denied it just two hours after it was received.
--ibid
You know, the Republican Powers That Be begged DeLay not to run in the primary. His decision to do so was yet another exercise in narcissistic hubris the likes of which have not been seen since...well...never. He thought he could manipulate the system yet again, by running and winning just to prove I Still Got It, then "move" to Virginia--even though his wife still maintains a home and lives in Houston--and step aside. The reason for that whole plan was that so DELAY could then choose his annointed successor, not the foolish little peon voters.
When the Democrats challenged that preposterosity, DeLay must have felt so surely smug--yet again--because, after all, most of the judges that have been rammed through Congressional approval in the past six years are conservatives. He relished yet another anticipated win over those hapless moronic Democrats.
..."At this point, it's now up to Tom DeLay to decide whether he's going to cut or run," said Chris Feldman, a lawyer representing the Texas Democratic Party...
...DeLay said he would probably stand for reelection if he lost the court fight to remove his name from the ballot.
That would be an ideal fight for the Democratic Party, which had wanted to challenge the scandal-tarnished DeLay even before his resignation. Now Democrat Nick Lampson, (a well-funded former House member) appears destined to face a former congressman mounting a comeback against his will to represent a district he tried to leave.
--ibid
DeLay was under indictment in Texas and facing a possible House ethics investigation when he resigned his seat in June and announced he would move to Alexandria in hopes of removing his name from the ballot.
--"GOP Loses Bid to Drop DeLay from the Texas Ballot," Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post, August 8, 2006.
What cracks me up the most about DeLay's failed bid to manipulate the Constitution, the Courts, and God Himself to get his ruthless way yet again was that the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court--the very one who made the swing vote that put George W. Bush in the White House in the first place back in 2000--took less than two hours to kick DeLay back to the curb.
For years now, while stealing money from well-meaning Christian doners to his various "family" organizations, which were merely fronts for money-making enterprises for Tom DeLay and Family, while terrorizing any Congressman who got in his way while, at the same time, giving convicted felon Jack Abramhoff whatever his little heart desired in return for yet more graft and corruption, while restructuring the entire state of Texas to keep it red and send more red Congressmen to the Hill...
...All that time, Tom DeLay (the former exterminator who keeps his bug-killing license current) was ranting and raving--among other things--about "activist judges," only the things he was saying went beyond the pale for what most conservative activists had in mind while lobbying for, say, John Roberts's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
No, DeLay was not content to merely work to put the judges he liked on the bench. He went so far as to propose legislation that would severely limit the power of the United States court system and make it subservient to Congress--in direct violation of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and any other accepted legal standard known to God or man. He wanted to prosecute federal judges who disagreed with his extremist agenda. He even intimated that it was all right to target judges we disagree with by harrassment, and failed to condemn horrendous acts of violence against judges, basically stating that some of them deserved it.
When DeLay was indicted in a Texas court of law, he raised high holy hell that the Democratic judge was in on some nasty liberal conspiracy to ruin him, and the judge was replaced. Then he started in on THAT judge, intimating that he wasn't doing his job if he sent DeLay to trial. His attorneys had spread all kinds of lies about the original judge in the case, claiming that he'd even ordered a T-shirt from liberal group MoveOn.org that depicted DeLay's mug shot on the front.
Problem with that is that MoveOn.org has never--not EVER, not ONCE--offered T-shirts of ANY KIND, much less T-shirts with DeLay's smug self-righteous arrogant smirk on the front.
Even when he was going before judges, he was still mouthing about how our legal system ought to be in the hands of good congresspeople--like himself--rather than something so mundane and open to interpretation as the Constitution. No other congressman has ever gone so far in their diatribes against the American judiciary as Tom DeLay.
A Republican federal judge in Texas ruled in favor of the Democratic argument last month, and that ruling was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans last week. With the election less than 100 days away, Texas Republicans appealed to the Supreme Court yesterday to stay the appeals court ruling and allow them to pick a new candidate to stand against Democrat Nick Lampson in November. That appeal was routed to Scalia, who denied it just two hours after it was received.
--ibid
You know, the Republican Powers That Be begged DeLay not to run in the primary. His decision to do so was yet another exercise in narcissistic hubris the likes of which have not been seen since...well...never. He thought he could manipulate the system yet again, by running and winning just to prove I Still Got It, then "move" to Virginia--even though his wife still maintains a home and lives in Houston--and step aside. The reason for that whole plan was that so DELAY could then choose his annointed successor, not the foolish little peon voters.
When the Democrats challenged that preposterosity, DeLay must have felt so surely smug--yet again--because, after all, most of the judges that have been rammed through Congressional approval in the past six years are conservatives. He relished yet another anticipated win over those hapless moronic Democrats.
..."At this point, it's now up to Tom DeLay to decide whether he's going to cut or run," said Chris Feldman, a lawyer representing the Texas Democratic Party...
...DeLay said he would probably stand for reelection if he lost the court fight to remove his name from the ballot.
That would be an ideal fight for the Democratic Party, which had wanted to challenge the scandal-tarnished DeLay even before his resignation. Now Democrat Nick Lampson, (a well-funded former House member) appears destined to face a former congressman mounting a comeback against his will to represent a district he tried to leave.
--ibid
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