Delay tactics
I have noted for quite some time that there is one person who would certainly be worse than the brainiac that we have now as President. That person is Tom DeLay. The worst, bar none. A man willing to put on a righteous, patriotic front while blatantly being the most corrupt, me first politician in modern times. Many are calling for his resignation. Even Repb. Chris Shays has said it is his opinion. My opinion...keep him around. He is the ideal poster boy for the radical republicans and is quickly becoming a true laughing stock. I was so happy to hear him bring out the old "liberal media" canard today. Nothing will blow that out of the water faster than Mester DeLay claiming he is a "victim" of it. If Delay goes someone only slightly less repugnant will take his place. That's the problem I have with all this ...this guy resign, that guy resign. In MOST administrations that would make sense but in these days it really does little good. We now have a nominee for UN ambassador who has often been quoted as saying the UN is the problem and needs to be destroyed. To go from the stench of rotting garbage to the stench of rotten eggs is really a minor factor overall.
posted by Ron at 9:11 PM
5 Comments:
Very well said. Food for thought. I really need to write Steve Pearce again and see what his latest spin on Delay is. Last letter I got from Pearce said something about "you wouldn't want to be punished for a crime you didn't commit, would you?"
Pure B.S.
Rougy
Steve Pearce has been very much a party loyalist. That's fine for a freshman congressman...but he's got to know when to step away from the ticking bomb (or sinking ship?) so as not to go with it. That's the art of political survival. Even Bush has distanced himself from DeLay after DeLay's fiasco regarding Shiavo and the courts.
Ron, I didn't know here to comment with this so I put it here...this guy should not be the UN Ambassador, but he should be fired. I am an equal opprotunty despiser of arrogant gov't officials.
John R. Bolton (search) appeared a step closer to confirmation as ambassador to the United Nations despite scathing testimony Tuesday by a former State Department intelligence chief that he was a "serial abuser" of analysts who disagreed with his hard-line views.
Carl Ford Jr. (search), a former chief at the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research (search), denounced Bolton as a "kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy" who directed an abusive tirade at analyst Christian P. Westermann (search) for questioning whether Cuba was developing biological and chemical weapons.
Democrats said Bolton's mistreatment of lower-level officials who would not bend to his hard-line views was underscored by Ford, who appeared voluntarily as a witness to support the accusations of harassment
Contradicting Bolton's assertion Monday that he never tried to have officials who disagreed with him discharged, Ford said Bolton tried to have Westermann fired. "I had my own confrontations with Bolton," Ford said, but added that abusing an official on a much lower level was a different matter.
You know, I knew people like him in the gov. And despised each and everyone of them. I have no idea what the Administration is thinking, but this will wind up as a shot in the foot. If they want a yes man, find one with manners...there are plenty of them out there.
April 17, 2005: Senior Republican Says DeLay Won't Quit as Leader
Lugar: Bolton Nomination Likely to Pass Committee
(Both Reuters)
http://www.alternet.org/story/21770/
Lucky if he only fires you
Posted by: bookwoman on Apr 18, 2005 5:38 AM
"The record of Bolton is getting as long and as incredible as Tom DeLay's. He is accused of trying to get people fired or relocated, he threatens to fire a woman who is only partly recovered from a difficult delivery if she doesn't drag herself back to work, and on and on and on. But then these were only words.
Melody Townsel of U. S. Aid, in a letter she is asking to have included in evidence of the Senate Committee on Bolton, testifies that Bolton was so angry with her reports of lack of progress on Middle Eastern projects that he followed her to Moscow, lied about supposed indictments against her by government investigating bodies and even went so far as to stand outside her hotel room door screaming and banging on the door because she was afraid to come out. The hotel management finally forced him to leave.
I would imagine Bolton is keeping another woman in fear right now also. Condoleeza Rice is probably scared out of her mind that Bolton won't get the assignment to the U.N., and she will have to deal with him in Washington until she figures out another way to get rid of him."
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