DeLay To Oversee Justice Dept., the U.S. is 100% CORRUPT

[specimenfred1984]

--- WASHINGTON - Indicted Rep. Tom DeLay, forced to step down as the No. 2 Republican in the House, scored a soft landing Wednesday as GOP leaders rewarded him with a coveted seat on the Appropriations Committee.

DeLay, R-Texas, also claimed a seat on the subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department, which is currently investigating an influence-peddling scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his dealings with lawmakers. The subcommittee also has responsibility over
NASA — a top priority for DeLay, since the Johnson Space Center is located in his Houston-area district. ---

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060208/ap_on_go_co/delay_appropriations_1



I mean seriously, is there any doubt left in anyone's minds?

[Roland99]

1. What the mother fvck?!?!?!?!?!

Can there be a more striking similarity to the fox watching the hen house??


I'm rarely shocked at GOP moves anymore but good freakin' grief!!!!

[skooooo]

2. Surely this won't stand.....

[Caution]

3. He'll be unemployed in a few short months anyways

[shaniqua6392]

4. Unbelievable!

I think we should just start our own country. Divide it in half and let me be a part of the country who really cares. The Democratic side will do for me.

[Kber]

5. Delay will be overseeing the dept

which will be investigating him?

AYFKM?

(Are you fucking kidding me?)

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Well, he DID threaten to kill funding for courts

as a way to 'eliminate activist judges'. It's criminal what these people are doing to this country.

[FreedomAngel82]

26. It's only

because they don't bow down to them. It's only "activist judges" when they're against them. Of course they're the one's doing "activist judging." :mad: I can't stand this crap!

[Norquist Nemesis]

29. Can't stand it either

I was going to turn on the TV today and watch a little CSPAN, but the crap that's going on is too much. It's a non-stop assault and I'm just downright war weary lately...mad as hell, but weary nonetheless. :grr:

[MissWaverly]

36. don't be weary, they have finally gone too far

like the Attorney General's snap response to Arlen Specter, Bush trying to put the brakes
on investigating Abramoff twice (the prior was the Guam investigation), now we
have the Justice Department under the Hammer. If Bush has nothing to hide as many
Goopers claim, why all this trouble?

[converted_democrat]

7. Unfucking real.. I don't know what else to even say...n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

18. Yes, words fail. I don't recall such in-your-face

abuse of power in my lifetime. Have the likes of such overt & shameless corruption ever been seen in US history? This was usually the stuff of smoke-filled backrooms, with at least a façade of probity being maintained in public. Tricky Dick & Co. did it behind closed doors. SG

:wow:

[FreedomAngel82]

27. They only reason

why they're so out there now days as compared to Nixon is because unlike with Nixon they know nobody can do anything to stop them. We don't have the power anymore.

[Surya Gayatri]

30. Really scary thought--

they truly believe they are omnipotent & possessed of divine right!

:scared: SG

[htuttle]

50. They do

I've been watching this particular mob for two decades. They really do think they are royalty.

Read some of the crap to come out of Barbara Bush's (Mrs.) mouth sometime. She's as arrogant and elitist as anyone in the court of King Louis XVI ever was.

[helderheid]

8. holy mother of GOD.

[Az_lefty]

9. Oh Good Lord!

these people aren't even trying to hide their corruption any longer. WTF are we suppose to do now?

:grr:

[pdxmom]

10. So much for their "ethics reform" n/t

[truebrit71]

11. Good grief!!! Fox guarding the Henhouse anyone?

What a fucking joke.... :eyes:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. I'm wondering if this implies they expect him to walk on all charges or...

If they just don't give a damn if they put a guilty criminal in charge of the Justice Dept.

I'm betting the latter

[Binka]

14. They Know He Is Going Down They Are Placating Him Cuz They R Afraid

Tommy is a mighty nasty little polecat and he is going tell some sizzling tales once Ronnie Earle gets him in a legal head lock. They are just hushing the bully up for the time being. But the lava ain't going back in the volcano once little Tommy blows. The GOP are such dumb fucks.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

24. Binka, I think you're on to something

It hadn't occurred to me that they might be placating the vermin to keep him quiet, but now that you mention it it makes perfect sense.

[Fovea]

49. The puggies have to whack him, Libby and Abramoff

or they are going down hard. Even Ney and the Dukester may take the long walk off the short pier.

That will be the real wake up for a lot of non-neocon pugs. I see an homage to Ernst Rhom in their future.

[mattclearing]

13. This is it...they are really overreaching this time.

I don't think anyone will be able to spin this well.

[PATRICK]

15. This isn't "it"

This is "typical". Standard fare, SOP. The rule of scofflaw. Anyone who has followed mob histories can see what it is like only this time the mob IS the law and is even more full of themselves than ever for believing the contradiction.

The henhouse is nervous. Blood and feathers and missing chickens. The new farmer will protect us. Enter the new farmer, a fox dressed in hat and blue jeans. What's a chicken going to do now?

[mattclearing]

25. Barnyard metaphors aside, this is a gift to Dems.

Nothing perpetuates the cronyism and corruption line, which has traction, better than this move. We'll see if they scream bloody murder over it.

[glitch]

16. How can any self-respecting professional in the Justice Department stand

this? When are they going to revolt? And I don't mean quit.

[Initech]

17. Wow. Putting a convicted felon in charge of the Justice Dept. is like...

Putting a computer geek in charge of Girls Gone Wild.

It's like putting Monk in charge of the garbage dump.

It's like selling non-alcoholic beer at Nascar events.

You get the idea.

[specimenfred1984]

19. It's Like a Joke on The Onion, Except it's Real

I had to read it 3 times before I could even believe it.

[JanMichael]

42. That was my impression too.

It's like a joke, a really bad joke, but a joke nonetheless.

[hootinholler]

21. Delay is a convicted felon?

First I heard of that. Indicted, yes, when was he convicted?

-Hoot

[Initech]

23. Doh! I forgot he hasnt been convicted yet.

[Toots]

40. A convicted felon?????

When was his conviction and what was his sentence? And you do know convicted felons are not allowed to be Congressmen.

[Skidmore]

20. Anyone for a stop Alito type uproar over these committee

appointments of his?

[gunsaximbo]

22. Let me get this srt8, he's now one of those responsible 4 overseeing...

The investigation of - himself?

Will the corruption never end? Will there be outrage?

[onenote]

34. no

He's one of 8 repubs and 5 Democrats "overseeing" the money appropriated to the Department of Justice (among other departments) and the various programs run through those departments.

Its tasteless, but pretty meaningless actually.

onenote

[tlsmith1963]

28. Just Goes to Show...

...that if you do wrong, Bush will reward you. Stupid gang of crooks...:mad:

Tammy

[yy4me]

31. Its the old fox and hen house deal but I'm sure

this one will catch the fox red handed. How can anything be so baltant...except for the Frist-Hassert drug deal. Good grief, bad to worse.

[Generator]

32. I really can't take it too seriously

anymore. Kafka novel or something? I need to distance myself to keep my sanity. This doesn't affect me la la la. Actually, I'd rather be shopping. The politics game is too rigged for me.

IT IS MIND BLOWING isn't it? And they get away with it all. Jeez. I need some new bubble bath. must focus must focus

[onenote]

33. Its kinda tasteless, but his power is quite limited

Delay is one of 8 repubs on the State-commerce-Justice Appropriations subcommittee (there are 5 Democrats); he's also on the Homeland Security subcommittee (one of 10 repubs, 17 members overall). On the full committee, there are 36 other repubs and 29 Democrats. He's not chairman of either subcommittee. And while the approps subcommittees are important in terms of the "pursestrings" (and earmarks) they are not primary committees with substantive oversight over the various departments. For example, Sensenbrenner's Judiciary Committee has oversight with respect to DOJ and he's not about to give up any power to an approps subcommittee.

Finally, after the Democrats reclaim control of the House, Delay will just be a jerk with his dick in his hand.


Here's the complete list of agencies over which the State-Commerce-Justice approps subcommittee has pursestring jurisdiction:


Department of Commerce; Department of Justice; Department of State (Except International Narcotics Control, International Organizations and Programs (voluntary contributions), Migration and Refugee Assistance, Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs, Peacekeeping Operations (voluntary contributions), U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, Economic Support Fund); National Aeronautics and Space Administration; National Science Foundation; Related Agencies: Antitrust Modernization Commission, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, Commission on Civil Rights, Commission on International Religious Freedom, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, HELP Commission, International Trade Commission, Legal Services Corporation, Marine Mammal Commission, National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council, National Veterans Business Development Corporation, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Office of the United States Trade Representative, Securities and Exchange Commission, Small Business Administration, State Justice Institute, United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, United States Institute of Peace

[Xenotime]

35. They are all crimnals. What do you expect?

[MadisonProgressive]

37. Why isn't he in prison?!!!

[MellowOne]

38. If we knew all the "truth" behind the scenes

It would shatter our minds.

[Historic NY]

39. Republican ethics 101........

..there are none.

[Nothing Without Hope]

41. Some more links on this story plus his grabbing Appropriations spot:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x364339
thread title (2-8-06 GD): Tom DeLay to Oversee Justice Department
Comment/excerpt: “DeLay, R-Texas, also claimed a seat on the subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department, which is currently investigating an influence-peddling scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his dealings with lawmakers.”
My post in this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=364339&mesg_id=366179
Reply #17: Another blatant conflict of interest- ALICE FISHER, who has a history with {Chertoff and apparently with DeLay's defense team as well, was another of Bush's controversial recess appointments}

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2094975
thread title (2-8-06 LBN): DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot
Comment/excerpt: "Allowing Tom DeLay to sit on a committee in charge of giving out money is like putting Michael Brown back in charge of FEMA _ Republicans in Congress just can't seem to resist standing by their man," said Bill Burton, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Another thread on this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2447237
thread title (2-8-06 GD-P): DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot and oversees the justice dept

On NPR this afternoon I heard some GOP guy saying that really, the House GOP leadership couldn't "turn their back" on DeLay, since he had "gotten into trouble" getting them so much money. And he was serious. He went on to note that DeLay's own seat needs to be made more secure, and that now he'll be in position to "bring home the bacon" since NASA is in his home district and he's gotten the Appropriations committe slot. Sorry - I didn't find a link for this at the NPR web site.

[pinto]

43. Irony. DeLay gets an Appropriations Committee seat due to Cunningham's

resignation...Oy. There's something grotesque in all this.

[peacebird]

44. CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN & CONGRESSWOMEN

here's a link to my what I said in my calls today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2449335&mesg_id=2449335

Please call and tell them enough is enough. If these arrogant SOBs start feeling the heat maybe, just maybe they will start to do their jobs.

[yorkiemommie1]

45. we have a rogue government

arrogant and blase' about their crude machinations. every damned day there is a new insult from these bastards.

[rucky]

46. And Dracula has been chosen to drive the Bloodmobile n/t

[American liberal]

47. do these MFers think we're not paying attention? that we are totally

stupid?! What WILL they think of next?

NPR explained it thus: that DeLay's a money maker. They need him to keep hobnobbing with lobbyists (a big function of Appropriations Cmte chair) to keep the big bucks rolling in for the GOP. They presented it much more articulately, however.

[Marr]

48. It's called a one-party state.

This is what happens. Yes, it's corrupt, but their attitude is, "what are you gonna do about it?"