And we are not referring to the boots DeLay wore on ‘Dancing With the Stars’
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This Newsmax article highlights an interview with the former Republican leader in the House. It was conducted by Steve Malzberg on his Newsmax TV show. The subject is the Republican performance during the fight over Obamacare, the budget agreement and the government “shutdown.” We were unaware of the information highlighted in bold, which we believe merits the emphasis we supplied.
“I don’t know where the Republicans lost their will to fight … You’ve got to just stand your ground to fight. No retreat, no surrender,” . . .
He said he was reminded of the way Republicans caved during the 1995 government shutdown which lasted 21 days.
“[Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole] just couldn’t stand it anymore so he goes out on a Sunday afternoon and opens the government. In Bill Clinton’s book, he says that if we’d have held out one more day, he would have caved,” DeLay said.
DeLay urged GOP lawmakers to begin preparing for the next budget and debt ceiling deadlines early.
“They need to do what they should’ve done back in December of last year knowing that this day was coming, and that is to build your army … let people know where we’re headed, and, thereby, gaining support so that the members of the House and the Senate would come together as a full-fledged army,” he said.
Some readers may not be aware that about a month ago Tom DeLay was exonerated by a Texas Appellate Court of a conviction of political money laundering. According to this article at RedState:
That’s right. Exonerated. The Texas Court of Appeals ruled that not only was the evidence presented not sufficient to sustain a conviction but that no law had even been broken. So after nearly a decade since the original indictment, Tom DeLay is a free man though he is deeply in debt from the protracted litigation and his political career lies in ruins.
Read the full article and be aware that much more can be read about the decision exonerating DeLay. But if you try searching the QC Times web site using the search words Tom DeLay, as we did, you will find no reference to the Appellate Court decision. You will see references to his indictment and conviction by a lower court in an AP story or two. The QC Times carried those stories. You will see links to articles they printed by editorial columnist Molly Ivins (RIP) , who we think was the QCT Editorial Page Editor’s favorite columnist. Texan Ivins never missed an opportunity to take a cheap shot at DeLay or George Bush, W or HW.
And so where does a Tom Delay go to get his reputation back after getting the full treatment from liberal media outlets as biased as they come? Not the QC Times. R Mall
