TX-22: DeLay Out

Time has the scoop:

Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress within months. Taking defiant swipes at "the left" and the press, he said he feels "liberated" and vowed to pursue an aggressive speaking and organizing campaign aimed at promoting foster care, Republican candidates and a closer connection between religion and government.

"I'm going to announce tomorrow that I'm not running for reelection and that I'm going to leave Congress," DeLay, who turns 59 on Saturday, said during a 90-minute interview on Monday. "I'm very much at peace with it." He notified President Bush in the afternoon. DeLay and his wife, Christine, said they had been prepared to fight, but that he decided last Wednesday, after months of prayer and contemplation, to spare his suburban Houston district the mudfest to come. "This had become a referendum on me," he said. "So it's better for me to step aside and let it be a referendum on ideas, Republican values and what's important for this district."

Yeah, it's all the liberal media's fault that Tom DeLay has more investigators digging through his career than a week's worth of CSI episodes. His "retirement" announcement only serves to illuminate a man of weak character and moral conviction -- probably one of the reasons so many of his shady lobbyist friends saw him as such an easy mark in congress. Of course his re-election campaign is a referendum on him, it'a always a referendum on the incumbent. Fortunately for the good people in the 22nd distrct of Texas, the upcoming election will be a debate on two very different sets of values -- and unfortunately for the GOP, DeLay's "service" will provide a lasting impression of just what the values of many Republicans in Congress are ... a culture of corruption and to serve at the whims of President Bush, acting as little more than a rubber stamp for failed policies and ideas that have this county in dire need to change the course.

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FreedomOfSpeechForComprehensiveImmigrationReform on April 4, 2006 at 12:57 AM

Yeah, it's all the liberal media's fault that Tom DeLay has more investigators digging through his career than a week's worth of CSI episodes.

Truth has a liberal bias.

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dorsano on April 4, 2006 at 01:00 AM

Please help filter the best of best Tom Delay indictments. ...just got this need to hear the best sound bite of his criminal activities and his crying response.

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HybridFuel on April 4, 2006 at 01:05 AM

Posted by dorsano on April 4, 2006 at 01:00 AM

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I like that one.

Hey,We all know why he's really dropping out right? His top aid took a plea deal and you know he's about to "sing" like a backslidden choir member.

"Awww Lawd" ;D

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FreedomOfSpeechForComprehensiveImmigrationReform on April 4, 2006 at 01:10 AM

Why is De Lay lying on the Democrats? Check this out

snip of bull sh*t:

"I guarantee you if other offices were under the scrutiny I've been under in the last 10 years, with the Democrat Party announcing that they're going to destroy me, destroy my reputation, and that's how they're going to get rid of me, I guarantee you you're going to find, out of hundreds of people, somebody that's probably done something wrong."

Tom De Lie, I mean De Lay

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FreedomOfSpeechForComprehensiveImmigrationReform on April 4, 2006 at 01:29 AM

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