DeLay Indicted

[Scrooge McSam]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

However, I think it is perfectly clear, based on Earle's own words ...<snip>

I'm not so clear on that. I've been trying to find the exact quote I remember reading, but I'm coming up blank. I see other people quoting it but I can't find the original. Anyway, it's something along the lines of...

''The only people I antagonize more than Republicans are Democrats,'' Mr. Earle said later. He said the record showed he had prosecuted 12 Democratic officials and 4 Republican officials, although for much of his time in office, he acknowledged, Republicans were on the outs. ''We prosecute abuses of power,'' he said, ''and you have to have power to abuse it.''

The most complete reference I'm finding is Josh Marshall's blog, but I'll keep looking tonight and see if I can find which Times that comes from.

But what I find truly hilarious about all this is Delay's posturing. He never quits, calling Earle partisan and vindictive.

LOL

Being called partison and vindictive by Tom Delay is somewhat akin to being called ugly by a mud fence.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Scrooge McSam

I'm not so clear on that. I've been trying to find the exact quote I remember reading

So you doubt the quote from the Houston Chronicle?

While true that DeLay is most certainly partisan, that does not make Earle any less so. I believe it is the level of partisanship shown by DeLay that contributed him to be a political target. I do believe he is a political target.

If he is convicted, and I am wrong, than I will certainly admit to it. But as I stated earlier in my comparison the Hutchison indictment, I think his motives are clear.

[wendybeth]

Just a friendly reminder to please try and post either snippets, or quotes, from articles- not the article in it's entirety. (Copyright laws). Direct links are, as always, very cool.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Just a friendly reminder to please try and post either snippets, or quotes, from articles- not the article in it's entirety. (Copyright laws). Direct links are, as always, very cool.

You've been moderated!

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

You've been moderated!

Whew! Almost broke a sweat on that one.

[Scrooge McSam]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

So you doubt the quote from the Houston Chronicle?

Nope, not at all. Where did you get that?

It was a stupid thing to say. The fact that he used Delay's name made it political, and he was wrong to use Delay's name. I understand why he did it, I believe. Delay's name at a Democratic meeting is red meat. I'm sure he'd have gotten much less traction out of bragging about taking down D Rep Betty Denton, or D Rep Lane Denton, or D House Speaker Gib Lewis, or D Attorney General Jim Maddox, or D State Treasurer Warren Harding, or D Supreme Court Justice Don Yarbrough.

Originally Posted by scaeagles

While true that DeLay is most certainly partisan, that does not make Earle any less so.

The fact that he's prosecuted 3 times as many people from his own party as he has from the opposition says otherwise.

Of course it could just be that the democrats are 3 times as corrupt as the republicans

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I believe it is the level of partisanship shown by DeLay that contributed him to be a political target. I do believe he is a political target.

OK, run with that if it works for you. I see a man whose level of partisanship has led him to possibly criminal acts, so much so as to have been indicted by a 25 member grand jury of ordinary citizens.

You say Potato, etc.

Originally Posted by scaeagles

If he is convicted, and I am wrong, than I will certainly admit to it. But as I stated earlier in my comparison the Hutchison indictment, I think his motives are clear.

OMG We disagree! Has this every happened before?