THIS is why Tom Delay is exploiting the Schiavo issue

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Tom DeLay's Self-Ruination

The overweening partisanship that drives Tom DeLay's dominance as the
House majority leader is threatening to unravel his career. For the
second time in a week, the normally timid ethics committee has
admonished Mr. DeLay, finding that he exceeded acceptable conduct in
the heated pursuit of corporate donations and in engineering an unfair
edge over rival Democrats. For all his clout, the panel warned Mr.
DeLay, a Texas Republican, to "temper your future actions" or face
graver chastisement.

The bipartisan rebuke is extraordinary, but it hardly puts to rest Mr.
DeLay's use of power as a partisan cudgel. The panel only bolstered
the case for an outside counsel to investigate his ethical lapses. The
most serious charge by the Democrats - that Mr. DeLay illegally
laundered campaign money to help Texas Republicans - was put aside by
the ethics panel because of a state investigation in which three DeLay
aides have been indicted.

Mr. DeLay was faulted for fund-raising at a golf tournament run by an
energy company whose lobbyists curried special favors in a pending
energy bill. He was also rebuked for siccing federal investigators
onto Democratic state legislators who had fled Texas in an attempt to
stall a gerrymandering plan he had orchestrated to bolster his edge in
Washington. Last week, the ethics panel admonished Mr. DeLay for
excessive arm-twisting as the Medicare prescription bill foundered
last year: he privately offered to help the political career of a
wavering Republican's son. Five years earlier, Mr. DeLay, ever the
tooth-and-claw partisan, drew a rebuke for warning a trade group not
to hire a Democrat as its top Washington lobbyist.

Mr. DeLay has dismissed all the complaints as rooted in the "venom" of
partisan Democrats opposed to his legitimate pursuit of the G.O.P.'s
agenda. The ethics panel, however, warned that "overaggressive
pursuit" of that agenda "does not constitute a mitigating factor" for
his abusive behavior. This amounts to a warning for a tainted and much
feared leader to either straighten up or step aside.

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It's all misdirection, the same way Bush used Iraq to divert the weaker
minded attention spans - Republicans and Rednecks -from Bin Laden and the
Economy.


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<scharf.steven@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In two weeks, everyone will forget about Schaivo. The only fallout will
> be that Bill Frist and Jeb Bush probably blew their chances to be
> president with their asinine statements, that will come back to haunt
> them. It wasn't just the Repulicans in congress that were pandering on
> this issue, the Democrats share the blame.

I will do my best to make sure people remember it for the next election, and
perhaps subsequent elections.


>
> Funny how the pandering stopped once the polls showed that most voters,
> iincluding evangelical Christians, were siding with Schaivo's husband
> on this issue. A large number of adults, of all religions, and of of
> both parties (including Tom Delay), have had to deal with end-of-life
> issues, and don't appreciate any intervention from the federal
> government. And of course Bush's record on this issue is horrible,
> given what he did in Texas.
>
> My relative is a hospice visiting nurse, and the one good thing about
> this whole case is that there is now a tremendous awareness of the
> importance of having clear, written, notarized, advanced directives.
>
> If you live in California, you can order the Nolo Press "Medical
> Directives and Power of Attorney for California" and easily do your
> own. See:
> "www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0873379934/sanfrancisc0b-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1"
>