Who says karma isn't a bitch? Newt getting his payback against Delay

[CatWoman]

In 1989, a young Republican congressman named Tom DeLay dreamed of climbing to a position of power in the House of Representatives. He hithced his wagon to ed Madigan, who was running to be party whip. But another ambitious young Republican, Newt Gingrich, stood in the way. DeLay ran Madigan's campaign and Gingrich ran his own, and the contest was so burtal that after Gingrich won, DeLay and Gingrich reportedly didnt' speak for two years.

DeLay didn't give up. He raised tons of money and built an independent power base. But Gingrich was rising faster. In 1994 he wrote the Contract With America as part of his efforts to help the G.O.P. win back the majority. DeLay nearly refused to sign the contract, but in the end he raised $1 million for the party during the 1994 election cycle.

Gingrich triumphed and became House speaker, but DeLay still did not give up his ambitions. HE ran for party whip against Gingrich's best friend, Bob Walker. It was another tough race, and this time DeLay won. Gingrich hired much of Walker's staff.

Gingrich and DeLay formed a cold friendship, but their differences were never far below the surface. In 1995, Delay sent Gingrich's deputy, Dick Armey, a letter demanding that he stop criticizing DeLay in public. Then in 1997, DeLay helped to lead a coup to depose Gingrich as speaker.

http://fbihop.blogspot.com/2005/09/designated-hitter.html

[Burried News]

1. Eat up guys - hope it ends the same as this tussel in the swamp.

[sweetm2475]

2. this picture tells the story perfectly

[NEOBuckeye]

5. No kidding!

[DS1]

3. I heard some Fox News while in Dunkin Donuts today, This is what Gingrich

said.

The Republicans were going to be hurt harder then the Dems over Abramoff, because, well, 'the other party base' is more lenient towards corruption than the GOP base is.

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4. If Newt is Warning DeLay About Ethics, Times Are Bad

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0223-31.htm


Published on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 by the Houston Chronicle

If Newt is Warning DeLay About Ethics, Times Are Bad
by Cragg Hines

No matter. Gingrich is currently as cautionary, if not as vocally indignant, about the House Republican leadership's slide into the muck as he is about debating "patriotic immigration" or "the myth of judicial supremacy."

As usual, Gingrich is taking the long view, not something that current House leaders such as Tom DeLay are regularly accused of doing.

"Republicans in the House have to look at the reality that if we make sense as a party right now it's because we are the reform party, and anything that risks being the reform party is more dangerous for us than it is for the Democrats," Gingrich told a journalists' breakfast Tuesday sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. "They should be very careful."

Well, of course, House Republicans are not being careful. They are profligately displaying their power, including the power to abuse the House's tenuous-at-best policing of itself.

Gingrich's advice, minus some more general outcry, may be of limited effect. But Gingrich may have had a hand in stemming some of the abuses lately intended by DeLay & Co. Gingrich spoke out quickly late last year against the House Republicans' rule change to allow indicted leaders to retain their positions at least temporarily.

The rule was reversed. But the rollback turned out to be a temporary expedient.

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We needed more proof DeLay is slime?