April 07, 2005

DELAYED

  
Seems to me that this morning's front-page attack on Tom DeLay by the Washington Post isn't a story about Tom DeLay at all. The story makes clear that DeLay did nothing wrong. In 1997, he took a trip to Russia paid for (as far as he had any reason to be aware) by the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington D.C. The Center's president, Amy Ridenour, even came along for the trip.

Note that the NYSlimes also ran a front-page "exposé" today on DeLay's supposed "shady" dealings involving sweet deals for his family.
Of that story, David Frum had this to say:

But while we're on the topic of doubtful practices, can we notice this, please? The Times story is sourced to - and is packed full of quotations from - a series of groups whistled up by George Soros for almost the exclusive purpose of attacking DeLay. (You can read some of the details here.) Maybe the Times should be alerting its readers to the true identity of those sources of these shocked-and-appalled quotations? Or even balancing this bought-and-paid-for expertise with comments from some genuinely disinterested and impartial observers?

These "reports" are nothing but rumor, innuendo and gratuitous sliming.
Rep. Delay summed up the situation best himself recently:

DeLay on March 18 portrayed criticism of his trips and close ties to lobbyists as the product of a conspiracy to "destroy the conservative movement" by attacking its leaders, such as himself. "This is a huge, nationwide, concerted effort to destroy everything we believe in," DeLay told supporters at the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group.

This was probably on Howard Dean's schedule anyway, but especially after DeLay made his strong comments in regards to the Terri Schiavo forced dehydration/starvation, the proactive effort of the Congress to save her and America's increasing outrage with our runaway judiciary, "getting" DeLay out has become the Libs' job one.
They're hoping to tar him with enough ethics violations to get him to resign as they successfully did Newt Gingrich in 1995.
Tom DeLay isn't Newt; he's much better, stronger and more widely supported by the GOP.
And it's not 1994 with a Clinton in the White House, a Dimocrat majority in the Senate and an America that had yet to be awakened to its RedState, Jacksonian identity by the 9/11 attacks .
Unless and until the MSM can come up with more convincing, verifiable proof of DeLay's corruption, it's gonna be "Hammer Time" in the Beltway!