The Effective Tom Delay
Everybody keeps saying the left hates Tom Delay because he's so 'Effective'
Statements Regarding Tom Delay Indictment.
By which I imagine they assign a jealousy, and chagrin of the
vanquished to the left's feelings. Their own feelings; an unalloyed
triumphalism, bathed in the honeyed waters of victory, are entirely
another affair. This is pure grace, faultless, describable by Pindar
alone. Any questioning of Representor Tom is churlish and vindictive
The War Against Tom DeLay - New York Times. Except that's not it exactly
village voice - What's the Deal With the Tom DeLay Indictment? by Laura Rozen.
The indictment of Delay
News Flash
(washington Post) goes to the heart of what he does. It contains its
own pause. The indictments are not incidental, are not tangental. They
are not "incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial!" (line of the
character Hamilton Burger ) they go to the center of Delay's way. His
process of governence and finance
Campaign finance in age of DeLay | csmonitor.com.
The web of regulation surrounding modern political fundraising is
to some extent artificial and its boundaries at some points arbeitrary.
It also under the banner McCain-Feingold is relatively recent. It
exists nontheless for real reasons. to guard against the corrosive
corruption of big money in campaign finance. It may be a minor and
misdememor issue for the occasional transgression. The law was intended
to regulate not criminalize campaign behavior
With Indictment, a Fund-Raising Machine Will Slow - New York Times.
However, A comprehensive across the board attempt to bypass or
flagrently circumvent the laws must be read as active advocacy for the
dark walls powerful wealthy special interests seek to place between
government and the people
Center for Public Integrity.
It breeds a politics of personal ambition, and chains of obligation
seeking to replace our more evolved institutions. It fosters a
disciplinless legislature addicted to massive accountless overspending,
it will do this assuredly for either side of the aisle. The republicans
gain a temporary magority from Tom Delay, but also the loss of their
political integrity. To be sure I see this as nothing more than a mere
symptom of the potemkin hollowness of modern American conservatism in
general.
A description of Tom Delays progress through American politics
lends itself to the language of winner take all sporting competition
HoustonChronicle.com - What goes around: Rep. Tom DeLay is on the
receiving end of hardball tactics he has used for partisan gain..
An artifical rule bound metaphor. As though someone came to a game,
dedicated to pleasing an audience and enduring. Then proceded to
re-write its formal and informal rules. Winning merely was no longer
enough - all games must be shutouts. Victory must be total. Everything
is faction. Basemen who attempt to throw the right teams runners out
are to be spiked. Any of then who get on base are to be beaned at their
next plate appearence. Anyone in the stands who dares dares cheer a
play by the opposition is to be ridiculed and thrown out of the
stadium. It wouldn't take long before the audience for such a thing
melted away. Gone to to look for something more human. I don't count
myself among those who would encourage Delay for his
boogeyman-of-the-left qualities. Men like Tom Delay are not good for
American politics, period.
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