Pelosi, Emanuel Blast DeLay, GOP
Showing that they don't want to give up on their "Culture of Corruption" storyline,
Rahm Emanuel and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued separate statements
on Tom DeLay's impending resignation.
Needless to say, Ms. Pelosi's accusations aren't backed up with proof of corruption. Ms. Pelosi's accusations are an indicator of what she is: a noisy windbag without a hint of intelligence.
On the other hand, Rep. William Jefferson, (D-LA), is up to his eyeballs in corruption coverup and sinking. What about that, Mr. Emanuel?
Or how about the convictions of Democratic campaign workers in Wisconsin and East St. Louis, IL? One of the campaign workers convicted in Wisconsin on vandalism charges was the son of the former mayor, if I remember correctly.
But those don't count, I guess, in Pelosi's and Emanuel's minds, because those didn't happen inside the Beltway.
Cross-posted at California Conservative
Posted Wednesday, April 5, 2006 11:27 AM
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"Mr. DeLay's departure from Congress is one piece of the changes needed to end the Republican culture of corruption. This Republican corruption continues to cost the American people at the pharmacy, at the gas pump, and in their home energy bills. For more than a decade, every Republican in the House enabled and benefited from their culture of corruption and they must be held accountable. We need a new direction that returns the people's house to the American people. Democrats again insist the Ethics Committee do its job and investigate corruption in the House."This statement is what might be called a collection of sentences searching for a coherent thought.
Needless to say, Ms. Pelosi's accusations aren't backed up with proof of corruption. Ms. Pelosi's accusations are an indicator of what she is: a noisy windbag without a hint of intelligence.
Rahm Emanuel, (D-IL), echoed Pelosi's statements, adding that the departure of DeLay does little to sway public opinion of the GOP. "Tom DeLay may be gone, but the delay in real reform continues," Emanuel wrote in a prepared statement. "The refusal of the brand new majority leader of the House Republicans to pass comprehensive ethics and lobbying reform, the power of the special interests, the control the powerful lobbyists continue to hold, tells the American people everything they need to know about Tom DeLay's departure, that DeLay may be gone, but nothing has changed."Rahm shouldn't be throwing stones when they've got ethical challenges of their own. I remember reading the Justice Department report that Tom DeLay wasn't even part of the "first tier" of people that they're investigating.
On the other hand, Rep. William Jefferson, (D-LA), is up to his eyeballs in corruption coverup and sinking. What about that, Mr. Emanuel?
Or how about the convictions of Democratic campaign workers in Wisconsin and East St. Louis, IL? One of the campaign workers convicted in Wisconsin on vandalism charges was the son of the former mayor, if I remember correctly.
But those don't count, I guess, in Pelosi's and Emanuel's minds, because those didn't happen inside the Beltway.
Cross-posted at California Conservative
Posted Wednesday, April 5, 2006 11:27 AM
No comments.
