To Keep Post, DeLay May Need Quick Justice

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/politics/05delay.html
By CARL HULSE Published: October 5, 2005

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - Representative Tom DeLay's furious effort to quickly quash criminal charges against him and discredit the Texas prosecutor who brought them is aimed in large part at a select audience: fellow House Republicans who control his future in the leadership.

With some of Mr. DeLay's Republican colleagues already agitating for new leadership contests in the months ahead, he and his allies know that a speedy and favorable resolution to the campaign money case is his best chance to move back into control easily.

"It is one thing if it is three weeks," said Amy Walter, a nonpartisan analyst of House politics for The Cook Political Report. "Three months, that is another story."

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1. I've already heard 3 Pub talking heads say he'd done!

It started with Sheas remark that he believed DeLay has been pushing the ethical envelope for a longs time and it's time for him to go. It now has spread to other Pub guests on political shows saying with all the bad publicity that has been circiling around good old Tom, he won't ever be leader again.

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2. By all means let justice be swift, the sooner this thug is behind bars

the better.

[loudsue]

3. I disagree. I hope he has time between charges to really THINK

about what he's done to the people of this country. I want him to see what it feels like to watch people hang him out to dry, one by one, just like he has done to so many others. He has ruined so many lives through his policies and leadership -- strong-arming his minions into fucking the American people, day after day, year after year, and then humiliating them publicly to rub salt in the wounds.

The man is evil. I hope everything he's ever done has time to fly in his face during this whole thing.

[antonialee839]

4. Can't he do that thinking behind bars?

[loudsue]

5. He certainly could!! And I think he should!!

:applause:

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