Thursday, September 19, 2013

“I can get my concealed weapon license back,”

That's what Tom Delay is reported to have said, upon learning that the Texas appeals court overturned his conviction, acquitting him of charges he violated campaign finance laws.
He said he doesn’t have plans to run for office again, and is working on a book about constitutional revival at the federal level.
Couldn't Delay sue to get his reputation back? or whatever.

Tom Delay was sidelined 8 years.


The Washington Times

14 comments:

Amartel said...

Ronnie Earle, the politicized DA in this case, also tried unsuccessfully to indict Kay Bailey Hutchison for misusing state phones and assaulting a staffer. Thrown out on 1st day of trial.
POS has since run for Lieutenant Gov of TX and lost in the primary.

virgil xenophon said...

Amartel has nailed it--POS he is--but typical of the Donkey party--slime the members of the opposite party with false charges rather than debate policy--character assassination all the way is their standard mo.

Chip Ahoy said...

It does not weigh upon me for I am walking with the lord.

That is just sosososososo funneh to someone who does not share that faith. It sounds childish, archaic, tiny.

But it goes ))) ding ((( with me because apart from its specific cosmology it says something universal having to do with being guided by one's higher light, it affirms something outside oneself greater than oneself that could provide guidance through moral ethical dilemma big and small something greater than mere self interest or rather a way to unite self interest with divine interest, to allow oneself to be so directed.

And I was just reading Horus leading Ani, just the moment before, so that's two in a row, and you know what two in a row makes, don't you? A coincidence, that's what.

Carlos Castanada just went, WHAP! "That was an OMEN!"

And it's a beautiful vignette too. You should see it. My copy right here is excellent. A god leading a man by the hand. Or was that beautiful vinaigrette? His head looks like a cruet.

Horus leads Ani

Rubric (the words are red)
Thus says
(these words are black)
Horus son of Isis: I have come to you, O Wennefer, and I bring Ani to you. His heart is true, having gone forth from the balance, and he has not sinned against any god or any goddess. Thoth has judged him in writing which has been told to the Ennead, and Maat the great has witnessed. Let there be given to him bread and beer which have been issued in the presence of Osiris, and he will be forever like the Followers of Horus.

Touch'n innit. The way he's leading him along so confidently like that. The way they just splay their cosmology, their theology, their religion like that, their longing to be good and not being so sure about that. So long ago, and this modern politician expresses the same thing.

Hagar said...

It is not so much about Tom DeLay's reputation - that he has established himself - as about his career.

And it is not so much about Tom DeLay's career as it is about that the Texas justice system was used to sideline a national politician. You may not like Tom DeLay and his brand of politics, but his removal from office should have been up to the voters; not just a Texas Democrat political operative. And above all, the justice system - national or state - should not have been used for such a purpose.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...
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Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

The left-o-nazis sure do like to destroy people.

ndspinelli said...

Can he get his exterminator license back?

ndspinelli said...

Will he get another shot @ Dancing w/ The Stars?

Amartel said...

Lefty ponders the Important Nuanced questions of the day.

Methadras said...

Should Boehner be afraid of losing his job?

edutcher said...

I'm thinking of somebody at TOP who loved to bring up guys like DeLay and David Vitter, who's trying to get the Congressional out from ChoomCare repealed.

Payback, it may be what's for dinner, after all.

ricpic said...

Hey Methadras, why change a good thing? You better bring back that parakeet on your head and FAST!

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Should Boehner be afraid of losing his job?

Had it been the Hammer as speaker, instead of cry baby, maybe we, the country would have been better off.

rhhardin said...

Belmont Club

In reality things have not worked out too well for Barack Obama. His administration is now rotten to its core, unable to face enemies abroad, incapable of tapering the money machine, yet unwilling to yield the slightest ground on the Obamacare racket because that’s what he needs to buy off his critics and pay off his supporters.