Tom Delay is About to Sing Like a Canary and His GOP Friends are Terrified

[David Zephyr]

Let's cut through all the crap about Tom Delay's "resignation".

Tom Delay is about to go Judas on his fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives. The very colleagues that he "whipped" in Congress and who he criminally gave funding to. Delay knows all the guilty parties because he orchestrated his fellow GOP congressmen into his crimes.

And to save his neck, to reduce the ever-growing years of imprisonment he is facing, Tom will have to name names. Yeah, he will have to sing like a canary.

Tom Delay might just bring down the entire Republican House this summer.

Of course, that wouldn't go over well with his colleagues, would it? Naming names, turning evidence to save his ass...while running for Congress as a Republican. Wouldn't be prudent.

Just this past Friday, Tony Rudy, the former deputy chief of staff of Congressman Delay, pleaded guilty to conspiring with two other Delay confidantes.

Think about it. Friday, Rudy pleads guilty and over the weekend Tom Delay decides to "resign". After he'd just run a primary campaign to keep his seat in Congress. Why?

Well, the Dallas Morning News on Friday said that Rudy's plea would "lead to new questions in a corruption investigation." Duh!

Delay's lawyer, Richard Cullen, is already buried in defending Delay against indictments by 1.) Ronnie Earle in Texas, 2.) the heat of prosecutors in the Abramoff investigation, and 3.) the likelihood of an indictment resulting from Duke Cunningham's crimes.

It's not only Cunningham and Abramoff and now Tony Rudy spilling the beans on Delay, but don't forget that Michael Scanlon, a former press secretary to DeLay, also pleaded guilty to felonies in November and also is cooperating in the investigation...ratting on Tom Delay.

No, Rudy's guilty plea on Friday was the final straw that broke the camel's back. It doesn't take a genius to figure that Richard Cullen finally told Delay that the damn had broken and that he would soon have to consider saving his own neck...even if it meant betraying his fellow congressmen in the House.

So when the news of Delay's resignation hit last night, the sphincter muscles of every Republican in the House of Representatives tightened to the point that a coal of carbon would become a diamond because they knew that their former leader would soon ---just like Abramoff, Rudy, Cunningham and Scanlon---begin cooperating with his multiple prosecutors to cut a deal, to shave some years off his inevitable life in prison.

How ironic that Delay who fed the Republican campaigns with dirty cash so that they could ride herd in the House will now be the very one who will bring a great many of them down, possibly destroying the Republican Party for years.

And how appropriate that the former bug exterminator is about to turn the entire Republican House into a Roach Motel.

Thank the heavens for Tom Delay.



Edited because of my lousy grammar.

[liberaliraqvet26]

1. I hope your theory is right but I dont think he will sing

[Midnight Rambler]

5. I don't know... Republicans are selfish bastards

Just look at Abramoff, doing everything he can, including selling out his buddies, just to save his own ass. Now, we know how gargantuan the Bugman's ego is. No telling what he'll do to get himself out of trouble.

[IsItJustMe]

8. I honestly don't either. He's to arrogant.

[KittyWampus]

61. I think he'll sing. Delay is a self-made man. He's NOT a BFEE crony.

He's from the wrong side of the street and Bush and his uber-wealthy friends think of Delay as a worker bee and nothing more.

Handled properly, I think he'll deal.

[formercia]

78. Got that right.

He's still an untermench to the plutocrats.

[AnnInLa]

2. His ego says, nope, he won't sing like a canary

That would be lovely, I'll admit, but DeLay ain't singing.

[mwb970]

70. He won't sing, even if it saves him 10 years in jail?

That would involve putting his party before himself, not his usual pattern.

DeLay's top 100 priorities:

1. Money and Power for Himself
2. His Family
3. His Donors
4. Lobbyists
5. The Republican Party

...

97. America and its Citizens
98. Christian Behavior
99. The Truth
100. Decency

[fooj]

3. Such swine.........

Keep on squealing!

[IsItJustMe]

4. The old wise sang goes: When you are being thrown out of town, get in

front of the crowd and act like it's parade. How fitting.

[NNadir]

6. Well, he is rather self-serving, isn't he?

That would be fun, but somehow I don't think it's all that likely in the one-party state.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. He's not exhausted all his other means yet

If/when he does if things are still looking as bleak as they do now...yes, he will sing.

People like DeLay don't take one for the team. He'll be looking for a deal and he won't care who he has to give up to get one.

[durtee librul]

19. I bet he ends up

in an alley somewhere beat to a pulp or worse.....dead. He is too dangerous to the party to let him squeal like the pig he is. Too many influentials involved and if they think he is gonna roll....someone will roll him first. Just my two cents worth.

[Olney Blue]

25. Welcome to DU, you durtee librul!

Yeah, he could have an "accident" any day now....

[DIKB]

28. They'll "accident" him first.

Private plane, car crash, mysterious fire, or something like that. At least if his information can harm the right people.

[AuntiBush]

46. In Honor of

Corporal Bowling :( RIP

[motocicleta]

58. RIP Corporal Bowling

[David Zephyr]

59. Welcome to the DU.

:hi:

[motocicleta]

69. Thanks

and yes, I mentioned the word impeachment already. I try to bring it up every day. I can't wait for my ITMFA hat and t shirt to arrive (rubs hands with glee).

[David Zephyr]

35. Welcome to the DU, librul.

Now you are an evil duer. :hi:

[eleny]

9. K&R

I agree - but the "a coal of carbon would become a diamond" deserves a Recommendation.

The greed of this bunch made them go so far, too far. And now, it's the season for sphincters to go a-squeezin'.

[David Zephyr]

22. Thanks!

:)

[Joanne98]

10. He's Representative number two on the Abranoff indictment.

My congressman Bob Ney is Number One. If he sings it will have to be on someone bigger than him I don't think he will.

[Ksec]

11. Since his toadys squawked on him (delay)

he will have no other choice, unless he plans on taking the fall alone. Your post sounds about right to me.

Oh what a tangled web we weave.

[hang a left]

37. The prosecutors are obviously working their way up the republican

food chain. The only one higher would be Hastert. And that is way too close to the BFEE. That wouldn't be too healthy. He may be trying to save his wife and daughter.

[David Zephyr]

50. Squawked.

It's gonna be a long hot summer, darlin'.

[pacalo]

12. He wouldn't do anything that would help the Democrats win control.

[Roy]

36. Does this include doing life instead of 10 to 20???

That may be the question.

[pacalo]

65. I think he will get around 5 years; no more than 10.

I hope you're right about his selling out to save his skin. Right now, he's empowered by the thought that he might possibly get Ronnie Earle removed from the case. When he finds out that won't happen & the trial will proceed, & that his former alliances are going to be distancing themselves from him, maybe he'll realize there's more sense in saving his own skin rather than trying to salvage the soon-to-be broken ties with his party.

This scumbag is too arrogant, though. I can't see him cooperating with Ronnie Earle, either.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Proof there really is a god

and it not the ones the religious insane in this country follow.

[David Zephyr]

21. "I have seen the wicked in great power..."

"I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." Psalms, Chapter 37, Verse 35-36.

[DearAbby]

14. The rat would turn evidence on his own mother to save his own ass

There is only loyalty when it is lucrative. I just hope that half of what you say is true.

[David Zephyr]

24. He refuses to speak with his mother. He detests her.

Interesting that you used that analogy. The funny thing is he doesn't even speak with his own mother. So you are quite right. His very own mother. This is why his Republican "brothers and sisters" in the House are terrified.

Judas Delay.

[Ksec]

32. Is that right?

Very interesting. A guy who hates his own Mother. Boy thats telling. Maybe a trait with these people? I heard George doesnt get along with Senior??

[David Zephyr]

39. Link to story on Tom Delay's broken relationship with his mom and brother.

"DeLay has declined to comment on reports in The New Yorker that he is estranged from much of his family, including his mother and one of his brothers. According to The Washington Post, DeLay has not spoken to his younger brother, Randy, a Houston lobbyist, since 1996, when a complaint to the House Ethics Committee prompted Tom DeLay to cut his brother off in order to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest." --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay

[northernsoul]

79. Delay is a Freudian morass

He, like many other hateful conservatives, was severely abused by his alcoholic father. I seriously believe that the root of many RW beliefs lays in some kind of childhood trauma.

[AlinPA]

15. "Friday, Rudy pleads guilty and over the weekend Tom Delay decides

to "resign". After he'd just run a primary campaign to keep his seat in Congress. Why?" Very interesting indeed!

[David Zephyr]

26. Link to Friday's story.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/03/31/ex_delay_aide_reportedly_to_plead_guilty/?page=full

[rpannier]

16. I think the strength of your arguement rests in Abramoff

jackie boys lawyers are saying he's broke (or almost there). De Lay has 1.3 million to use to defend himself. With the lawyers he has, that money could go pretty quickly. Then he'd have to tap into his own resources to pay his costs.
I think, and I have no way of provong it, that he's going to cut a deal that will prevent him from losing any of his personal wealth.

[nini]

17. I hope so but I doubt it

His ego won't allow him to admit on any level he did anything wrong. He'll go down blaming everyone but himself - if he goes down at all.

He may squeal on a few, but destroy the whole gang of repukes..nah - he's too far entrenched in the old boys club for that. He can't destroy the party before the elections. They need to hold onto power too much.



BUT I'll be more than happy to see I'm dead wrong on this :-)

[Justice Is Comin]

66. Let me remind you and everybody

that they had Cunningham wear a wire before they exposed that he had pled guilty, was cooperating in the investigation, and knowing he was going down.

Do you think the prosecutors wouldn't have loved to get the Hammer on tape? Delay wouldn't have suspected that in a million years.

If they have him on audio with Cunningham, he will be dealing more dirt to the prosecutors to lessen his sentence than Haliburton is moving in Iraq.

[NMDemDist2]

76. could Delay's aide (Rudy) had worn a wire with the bugman? that tape

could be very interesting.....

[David Zephyr]

82. The Cunningham wire will hurt Delay.

I agree. The entire Cunningham story is still to unfold as it implicates other GOP memebers of the House. I think that Delay's wife had a finacial connection to the "consulting" firm in San Diego that Cunningham worked with, too.

I think that by summer time, Mr. Delay will begin singing. He will sing.

[Judi Lynn]

18. I think it's possible. We know he has no sense of honor, whatsoever.

He'll figure out a way to pin all the responsibility on every one else. Already he has made some idiotic comment referring to being punished because of the misconduct of people close to him!

[David Zephyr]

41. Hi, JL. Tom saving his own neck? Not our Tom.

:hi:

[file83]

20. Hopefully it goes that way - but something tells me that

Republican damage control won't allow all that to happen. Especially if Bush decides (or Israel decides) to start a war with Iran. Then all these 'problems' will most likely go away.

[populistdriven]

23. would trade all of Delays dirt on HR for him to rat on 1 Senate Repuke

C'mon tom, Just bring down 1 Senate Repuke

:evilgrin:

[David Zephyr]

42. Just one?

Just one?

[populistdriven]

53. One is all we need, the other 5 we can win in November

I know, I am assuming we win the vacated seat

[hobbit709]

27. He won't have to sing

Bush and Perry will pardon him in exchange for keeping his mouth shut.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

29. he won't sing. He is a true neocon believer.

[Stinky The Clown]

30. Omerta ..... and men of honor ... twisted honor, to be sure ... but honor

Members of La Cosa Nostra had the pledge of Omerta .... keep yer mout' shut, ya heah me?

Well, in **this** particular OGE (ongoing criminal enterprise) there are no men of honor. Twisted? yes. Twisted honor? Nope. Not a chance.

Frankie Pentangelo is too much a highbrow for these cretins.

[hunter]

31. Sing Tom, Sing.

Otherwise when this entire house of cards crumbles you will find no shelter.

There's a limited number of openings for exiled Americans in Bahrain, and Michael Jackson has one of them.

Once Bush and Cheney and all their pretty boys move in, there won't be much room for you.

You could end up as Paul Wolfowitz's man servant, which maybe you think wouldn't be so bad until he asks you to "lick his comb."

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Save yourself now, Tom, Sing!

[David Zephyr]

45. "Lick his comb"...

Oh, man. Hunter, you just forced a terrible graphic image into my "beautiful mind".I won't need an appetite suppressant now. :hi:

[glitch]

56. Dammit! Never try to eat dinner in front of the DU screen. Gack! nt

:puke:

[lapislzi]

33. On the contrary, his silence is valuable

What has he been promised in return for keeping his mouth shut?

All he has to do is keep quiet for the next 2 years. First, he'll be pardoned by bush. No doubt in my mind. Then maybe he'll ease into a nice cushy spot on someone's board or boards. Or head up some crackpot think tank. Or maybe he's been promised an advisory position with the next republican administration. He's not going anywhere. If anything, this is a sideways move.

I think Delay, despite his craven corrupution, is a disciplined man. He can keep quiet if he knows there's a fat prize waiting at the end. They want him quiet, and they will make it worth his while.

[sendero]

34. Will he or won't he?

Here's the thing, Delay is a prototypical Republican. They talk honor and integrity but at the core of their being they are merely .... selfish.

I'm betting he will, sing that is. Because he is a Republican, and now it's all about saving his own ass. Sure, he blathers about doing "what is good for the party" but in the end, Tom Delay will do what every Republican does, he will sell out his last friend to save his own ass.

We'll see!

[David Zephyr]

47. Sendero, I agree.

You write: "Tom Delay will do what every Republican does, he will sell out his last friend to save his own ass."

Past is prologue, isn't it.

He's gonna sing and his buddies are sweatin' like Nixon now.

[pdxmom]

38. I don't think he's gonna sing. I don't think the government really

wants him to. I saw a clip from his Tweety interview and Delay brags about how the prosecutors haven't talked to him, he hasn't been subpoenaed, etc. Well, that's really, really, really bad news for him. The fact is that if the federal prosecutors had no intention of investigating/indicting him, then they WOULD have talked to him about all the staffers from his office that they've already gone after. Nope -- no doubt in my mind that Delay is one of the big, big boys that they're after. They have no desire to go much higher than that...unless they can get into the White House through him.

[Vinnie From Indy]

40. LOL! BushCo is run like the Mafia

DeLay will either be protected, whacked or threatened with something worse than prison.

[verse18]

43. Did you hear David?

KO used your phrase "Roach Motel".

[David Zephyr]

48. Welcome to the DU!

:hi:

[AuntiBush]

44. Gosh. I'm So Heartbroken...

NOT! :bounce:

[The Backlash Cometh]

49. Oh, oh, oh. I hope Tom Feeney is one of them.

[Zan_of_Texas]

51. Feeney, DeLay and Ney.

They can bunk together in their cell in Guantanamo.

Yeah, I know, they call me a dreamer.

[The Backlash Cometh]

62. Feeney's got that pudgy face.

I bet he's the one that turns out to be someone's bitch.

[kiteinthewind]

52. It's just so sad, him being such a good Christian man and all.

NOT! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Lostnote06]

54. Thank you David for the post......

.....Congressman(now Ky Gov.) Ernie Fletcher(AF pilot/Doctor/Preacher, and all things good)was one of a handful of "congeasemen" at the time to have held pivotal impact upon the Healthcare Pckg vote.....during the debate phase, one GOP Congressman alledged bribery and intimidation....you know the rest of the story....in any case KY is now pursuing the largest bond project in state history pumping close to 1 billion dollars,half of which is already completed.....all going into the transformation of UK Med Research Ctr into a neck n neck race w/the Mayo clinic for the "medical emperors clothing award"....aside from the fact that my sweeties 14yr old business was eminent domained w/ZERO compensation from the University, I believe that DeLays hand in the passage of the HealthCare Bill bodes ill for a few KY Senators as well as Congressmen.....btw a 400 million Bio-Weapons Research facility is planned for just down the road(50 mi.)

[David Zephyr]

55. Welcome to the DU!

Delay is the stink bomb that will turn the House over to the Democrats. How poetic is that?

And a big welcome to the DU, Lostnote06! :hi:

[LiberalAndProud]

57. G Gordon Liddy

comes to mind whilst scanning your post.

[lostnfound]

60. A kick for your hopeful thoughts! nt

[David Zephyr]

81. Thanks.

:)

[IowaGuy]

63. Tom should avoid flying in small planes in the immediate future /nt

[ChiciB1]

64. Now This Conspiracy Theory Would Be LOVERLY! But Do

DOGS FLY??? My first reaction, this is sooooooo far out in LEFT field!

AAHHH, wake me when the DREAM is over!

[lovuian]

67. This is the man who orchestrated the Texas boundaries

this is the man who sent his thugs down to Florida to stop the 2000 election recount...

Ya Republicans have much to fear

The machine is bankrupt and tumbling down
Enron the campaign money funder is gone
(Halliburton has taken its place)

Cunningham scandal
Abrahamhoff scandal
Delay scandal
It goes on and on...

the whole Bush machine is being taken down piece by piece slowly working to the main mafia boss!!!

[havocmom]

86. I've been expecting this prolonged 'perfect storm' since Tenet left

Cheney got too pushy with the spooks. Some of them are honorable people who actually love the nation and serve with honor. Dick should never have forced himself into a chess match with shadows.

Shadows get into too many places and see enough to orchestrate a lovely check mate

Dick Cheney will come tumbling down. His bully boy shit just doesn't play with real American patriots, and there are enough of them in the shadows to keep the game coming down on Dick.

[tblue37]

68. Bush will pardon him to prevent that. (eom)

[Ganja Ninja]

72. That is the one thing that keeps them all from ...

turning on each other. Remove that hope and they will be pushing and shoving to get to the head of the line at the prosecutors office.

[Chimichurri]

71. That's why they all came to his aid yesterday. He's a man of integrity

blah blah blah.

I was trying to figure out why they all rushed to his defense and your theory makes perfect sense.
I think though if the price is right, he'll take one for the team. Money is his God.

[BootinUp]

73. not likely IMHO

Delay still wants to make money off his connections in the future. He probably still thinks he can get off easy as long as he has the best attorney money can buy. The resignation at this time probably allowed him to collect a significant amount of money for his defense. Had it been earlier or later he would have had less. Now of course if his legal picture continues to worsen in his view then all bets are off.

[salin]

74. More likely he does the damage by arrogantly fighting off

each charge (not pleading on anything) and in the course of the investigations and trials a lot of it comes spilling out despite ole Tom.

[Jose Diablo]

75. It's a 'prisoners dilema'

I'd say you are correct, they'll take each other down, the dam has burst.

Edit: As said above, he better stay out of small aircraft. He is close to 'sugarland', right outside of Houston. Hmmm, who else hangs out in Houston?

"Will nobody rid me of this meddlesome priest?", it's happened before, many times.

[kentuck]

77. I wonder how many of his friends in Congress donated to his "defense fund"

As Josh Marshall pointed out this morning, and mentioned elsewhere, Delay had no plan to run for re-election. His primary race was simply to raise defense money for his lawyers to try and keep him out of jail. And I wonder how many other Congressmen donated to his "primary fund" knowing what they were giving the money for?? And how legal is that?

[Ignis]

80. Diamond Republicans...I love it!

So when the news of Delay's resignation hit last night, the sphincter muscles of every Republican in the House of Representatives tightened to the point that a coal of carbon would become a diamond because they knew that their former leader would soon ---just like Abramoff, Rudy, Cunningham and Scanlon---begin cooperating with his multiple prosecutors to cut a deal, to shave some years off his inevitable life in prison.

Thanks very much for this image, David. It made my day. :)

[saltpoint]

83. I wonder what the odds are for a pardon by Dubya at the end of

Dubya's last year in office. I wonder if Dubya would even do it, and wonder if Delay needs to know now before he starts the indictment proceedings.

[DemInDistress]

85. I wonder if King George the Imbecile will even be in office

for his "last year".. H'm !! If the Dems sweep both houses in Nov. and impeachment hearings begin what might happen? A "New New Pearl Harbor?"

[saltpoint]

87. Could happen -- the impeachment part is REAL appealing.

You get no argument from me on that, DemInDistress.

The less of Dubya we have the better.

[DemInDistress]

88. Impeachment would= no pardons for the corrupt GOP thieves

and maybe put dubya in jeapordy. I just hope and pray there will be an election in November. Keep in mind that idiot king would relish another "bullhorn moment"...

thanks for the feedback Old Crusoe

its late and I am tired adios my friend !!

[KoKo]

84. It's amazing how the "MSM" keeps pumping his "Criminality Up, " though....

They make it sound like he was a HERO! A guy who just took the Gingrich Mantle and ran with it when Gingrich went down.

"They" make it sound like Delay will find a new life after "Retirement" (:rofl:) and come back as a NEW FORCE ...speaking to "GOD AND CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANISM."

I wonder how much his wife and Tom will rake in from their Christian Buddies...but after all...they have their "Home for Foster Children" that's called "Rio" something and they can just divert that money into "Delay Defense Fund" just like all of us out here on DU could do if we "got in trouble with DC and the "LAW."

The Hypocracy causes me to shrink in awe of their "AUDACITY." Their "IMMORALITY" causes me to CRINGE ...given we are up onto "Easter Season" but it doesn't matter.......because "THEY" are the only ones who know how to interpret Jesus's WORD...and "THEY" are the "ONLY TRUE CHRISTIANS!!"

Cynthia McKinney is a BLACK ATHEIST DEFILER OF THE WORD OF GOD....STONE HER!!! STONE HER!!!! ...she has "weird hair!" Place and "S" on her BREAST/T-SHIRT" ....let her BURN AT THE STAKE! She "ASSAULTED AN OFFICER!"

SAD.......