Tom DeLay Charges Falling Appart
AUSTIN — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today refused to reinstate criminal conspiracy charges against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and two co-defendants.It looks like the Democrat’s trumped up charges against Tom DeLay are falling apart.
Of course the Democrats really don’t care about whether the charges were true or not. What they really wanted was a political issue.
I wonder if there were other times in history where political opponents got their way by implying illegality toward those not in their movement?
Meanwhile Oregon still has Democrat Sen. Betsy Johnson who has made money and political contributions based on her legislative acts. Now if the Republicans were to play “hide the indictment” like Democrats do then they would start trumping up all kinds of other things. But Republicans don’t.
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In your pants-pissing joy over the dismissal of one indictment against your hero the crook DeLay, you forgot to mention that other criminal indictments still stand, including ones for money-laundering and conspiracy to commit money-laundering.
Yeah, actually, it's an old tactic that has been used many times in the past.
Claimes of impropiety and outright illegal behavior were de rigueur all thru the 18 and early 19 hundreds. Especially in the South.
In some cases indictiments were also utilized.
The biggest difference between then and now is the 24 hour news cycle.
The attack on Delay had two purposes. The first was to drive him out of office. The second was to make him the poster child of "Republican Corruption".
100 years ago the second tactic wouldn't have worked. The average person could not sit at home for hours at a time and absorb the amount of information that we can today. Aside from the fact that the amounts of information weren't available, the time needed wasn't available.
The two great lies of politics is that it's "a polite discourse of the issues." and "politics is dirtier today than ever before."
The amount of mud that gets slung around hasn't changed. What has changed is how far and wide you can sling the mud.
It's only in the last 60 to 70 years that politics was even looked at as a "noble pursuit".
Becky at Preemptive Karma is having a fit about this, being unable to understand the basic point that if Act A wasn't a crime under the laws of the land when Act A occurred, then Act A is not a crime.
The fact that a partisan legislative body decided that acts similar to Act A should from now on be thought of as crimes doesn't mean that such acts were crimes--or wrong, either--when entered into prior to passage of the new law.
Becky is also furious about Bill Sizemore, having apparently decided that her private judgment about him is more important and meaningful than the judgments made by actual judges in the lawsuits filed against him by the Oregon Education Union in their decade-long effort to shut him down by any means necessary.
So I am wonder then. If after several states changed the speed limit to 55 MPH in the 1970's did hundreds of thousands of drivers get speeding tickets for all those years of driving above the speed limit?
Or, what if Oregon were to turn to Republican control in the next cycle and it became illegal to vote on something that will directly make you money? Will Democrat Sen. Betsy Johnson be retroactively punished?
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