DeLay: GOP Sticking by Their Man
One has to give it to Republicans, they sure do stick by their man — even when everyone else around’em knows that he’s a no good two timing looser. The Hill reports:
Reps. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), Dave Weldon (R-Fla.) and Bob Ney (R-Ohio) spoke in support of DeLay at yesterday’s morning conference meeting and called on their colleagues to back him.
At a press briefing after the conference meeting, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) dismissed suggestions that leadership or the conference had lost confidence in DeLay.
“I don’t see any wavering of support for the leader,” Blunt said. Speaking at a briefing to tout the Republicans’ legislative victories in the 109th Congress, Blunt said, “The support for the leader is strong.” [Article - April 7, 2005]
In the second to last paragraph of the article The Hill gives an extremely brief summery of DeLay’s alleged corruption:
[T]wo stories are the most recent in a long string of negative reports about the majority leader, many of which link him indirectly to former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is under investigation by the Justice Department and the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs for his lobbying activities on behalf of two Indian tribes.
Jerome Armstrong of MyDD has more to say on DeLay, and how Bush’s White House may have turned on DeLay, given how the congressman has become a liability.
