What Do Tom Delay & Jack Ruby Have in Common? They Both Knew Too Much.

[David Zephyr]

Anyone familiar with the brilliant journalistic work in the books by Wayne Slater that deal with Bush's Brain and Architect, Karl Rove, will know that Mr. Rove and Tom Delay go way back together...especially when it came to moving money around for Bush Family interests. Wayne Slater has documented how Karl Rove would meet Tom Delay outside of the White House and how clandestine their meetings were set up and conducted. Slater's investigative work is fascinating.

Like many Americans, I would hope that when Tom faces the prospect of a smelly cell with a stainless steel toilet that he might decide to sing like a canary about Karl Rove. But I don't think it will happen. Here's why.

Rove whistled right through that Iraq/WMD/NY Times graveyard while Scooter Libby took the fall for Dick Cheney. And yet Karl "Fair Game" Rove was as deep in the same criminal shit as Scooter was, if not deeper. George W. Bush refused to pardon Libby. But make no mistake, if it had been Mr. Karl Christian Rove in that hot seat, well a full Presidential pardon would have come and come quickly. Why?

Libby was never a party to the inner workings of the Bush Cabal like Karl Rove has been all these many years. And that's why today's criminal conviction against Tom Delay is so very intriguing to me: As Slater layed it out, Tom Delay actually has goods on Karl Rove, who has the goods on the Bush Family. Tom "The Hammer" Delay can connect more than just dots, he can connect dollars to time and place. And Tom can provide the quid pro quo.

So it's only natural that Mr.Delay would ponder snitching for a lighter sentence by fingering others. And there will be negotiations during any appeal process, but I don't expect Tom to cut a deal by fingering Rove. He just won't do it. Why?

Ask another real Bush Family insider, Mr. Ken Lay...Oh, that's right, you can't ask him because he died just four little months before his formal sentencing for his felony convictions were to take place.

Tom Delay will ponder Ken Lay and then remember that Jack Ruby lived, albeit very quietly.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Well DeLay had better start talking before December hadn't he?

why doesn't he spill the beans, after all he has nothing to lose?

he would do this country a favor.

[gratuitous]

2. You mean Tom DeLay (D-Tx)?

Come on, you know Fox is going to identify him that way.

[David Zephyr]

3. That was funny...and true.

gratuitous, I have to give it to you: we should have a clock countdown until Fox has the (D-Tx) ribbon on the screen. You have me still laughing because it's so true! :)

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. LOL You need to make that an OP

[hootinholler]

7. They already have...

Well not on the air that I could find: (From NewsHounds)


-Hoot

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. So do you think Delay will be joining Lay on that desert island?

Interesting indeed.

[David Zephyr]

6. I think he'll keep his mouth shut.

I really do.