DeLay's been indicted

[whometense]

According to TPM, on one count of criminal conspiracy.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_09_25.php#006647

I'm looking for more info now.

[TayTay]

1. AP Story

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050928/ap_on_go_co/delay_investigation
Yeah! One down, many to go!

[whometense]

2. I never thought I'd live to see the day.

Many, MANY happy returns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's this do for Bush's legislative agenda?

Earlier, DeLay attorney Bill White told reporters, "It's a skunky indictment if they have one."

wah wah wah. :cry:

[ginnyinWI]

3. Happy Day

The chickens are coming home to roost. Now who will be next?? ;)

[Mass]

4. Hastert is already calling for a new majority leader.

[TayTay]

5. Davdi Dreier, REthug from CA

And an all-around lying Rethug bastard. But, hey it' s not Delay.

Drinks are on me, people!

:toast: :party: :dem: :applause:

[whometense]

6. Dreier???

isn't he - um - gay? (not that there's anything wrong with that...) What will the rabid right say?

[sandnsea]

8. It's hysterical, yes?

Frist, Delay and we've still got Rove in the wings. Now the fundies have to figure out what to do about Drier.

:popcorn:

[whometense]

9. I'm laughing.

I think it's hiLARious!! :D

Edited to add: Raw Story is on it: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Gay_Republican_eyed_to_become_House_0928.html

[Mass]

11. Description of Dreier by the Washington Post

Not married, do not support the FMA - That is not going to help with the fundies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/28/AR2005092801548.html

[rox63]

7. Front page at CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/

And here's the article:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/28/delay.investigation.ap/index.html

I'm doing a happy little dance. :D :bounce: :toast:

[whometense]

10. Steve Clemons

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000975.html

Burying the Hammer! A Good Day for American Democracy

Yes. . .Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush have had their starring roles in the subversion of our system of checks and balances that makes American democracy work -- but they are all in the Executive Branch. Chief executives try to be monarchs; they can't help it.

However, Tom DeLay knuckled under his colleagues in the Republican establishment, the Democrats, the corporate community, and much of the media in a near total humiliation and emasculation of the Congress in its role as a check on the President and Executive Branch authority.

DeLay's role is the starring one that has undermined this nation because he kept Congress from behaving as Congress should vis-a-vis the White House: as a check on power. This has been the reality throughout American history, even when one party controlled the legislature and the executive -- until Tom DeLay.

I once told a group of gay rights activists, followed the next day by a group of climate change-focused environmentalists, followed by a large group of young American globally-engaged internationalists that the very best thing that they could all work on rather than their pet projects was to work to unseat Tom DeLay. Sue him. Unearth the scandals. Keep the pressure up.

Tom DeLay has done more than nearly any other person to harm the machinery of democratic process in America -- and his indictment for campaign finance conspiracy and fall today gives me some hope that some of what this nation has lost is recoverable. DeLay will fight his accusers -- but he won't be back in party leadership. The long knives are out to get him -- and it has been overdue.

(more...)

[WildEyedLiberal]

12. It's not gonna be Dreier, folks: Blunt to replace Delay

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050928/ts_nm/usa_politics_delay_leader_dc_1

Can't be letting one a' them HOMOS represent the GRAND OLE PARTY!! :eyes: