I cannot wait to see this idiot go down! He has nothing but total arrogance and disdain for the public at large. I suspect he is going to find out what justice is all about...

In another interesting note, a number of members of our Texas House of Representatives stood up to its speaker yesterday and said that they are tired of "loyalty at all costs" instead of working by the rules. Tom Craddick has ruled the House with an iron fist, and was somewhat shaken by the turnabout of events.

Maybe there is some hope...

So , who are they (Delay, Doolittle) appealing to? Bush?, Gonzales?,
the "people"? It sounds like they are in one of the main stages of denial.

Alberto better watch his back!

Wonder where all this outrage was when it was Ken Starr and Dan Burton subpoenaing everything and everyone under the sun in an effort to get the Clintons.

When you've completely and thoroughly owned the Executive branch for this long, and being that the FBI is a subsection of it, I'll guess this is righteous indignation caused by "friends" busting on friends.

Shorter Delay--what's going on? I thought we stacked these agencies!! What gives?

Wow! This is really fresh coming from the likes of DeLay after all he and his Reep cohorts inflicted on Bill Clinton and every person Bill Clinton seemingly ever met in his entire life.

Let's just hope the FBI actually finds the goods on Tommy "hot tub" DeLay, one of the biggest hypocrites in the history of American politics.

Oops! I got so steamed about DeLay's phony charity, Celebrations For Children,Inc., I forgot to post the link to the Foundation Center's 990 Finder:

http://tfcny.fdncenter.org/990s/990search/esearch.php

Search EIN# 562392232.

You're welcome, mayan! Gotta laugh or we'll cry. These "people" are living jokes, and it's my fervent wish that they never again in this world be taken seriously. Their prison stories should make for some good yuks.

(OleHippieChick, that was hilarious! Doolittle and Delay - setting up next door to Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe, I'm sure.)

Posted by: Elisabet

Haaaah! Neighboring offices in the Law Maul.

Have you been indicted by Congress of conspiracy? Contact the law firm of:

DooLittle, Delay & Gonzales.

"Obstruction is Our specialty!"(TM)

Delay and Do little. What the GOP kleptocrats want from the FBI.

I have this theory about Tom DeLay in that voters associate DeLay as being the face of GOP corruption so I labeled my most recent TPM Cafe thread about him, "Give Tom Delay More Air Time, Please!" (link below).

In my Delay thread, I posted Philip Shenon's 11/4/05 NYT story, "DeLay Asked Lobbyist to Raise Money Through Charity":

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - Representative Tom DeLay asked the lobbyist Jack Abramoff to raise money for him through a private charity controlled by Mr. Abramoff, an unusual request that led the lobbyist to try to gather at least $150,000 from his Indian tribe clients and their gambling operations, according to newly disclosed e-mail from the lobbyist's files.

The electronic messages from 2002, which refer to "Tom" and "Tom's requests," appear to be the clearest evidence to date of an effort by Mr. DeLay, a Texas Republican, to pressure Mr. Abramoff and his lobbying partners to raise money for him. The e-mail messages do not specify why Mr. DeLay wanted the money, how it was to be used or why he would want money raised through the auspices of a private charity..."

In the email, Abramoff told Tony Rudy that DeLay wanted him to raise money for him through Abramoff's phony charitable foundation, the Capital Athletic Foundation.

We recently learned that Abramoff used his foundation to wire two $5k bribes to Mark Zachares so I don't think it is a stretch to consider that Abramoff may have wired bribes to Tom DeLay through the foundation.

In 2003, Abramoff's foundation actually contributed $25k to the Delay Foundation For Kids.

The 990s for Abramoff's Capital Athletic Foundation - EIN #522181892 are online at the Foundation Center's 990 Finder:

http://tfcny.fdncenter.org/990s/990search/esearch.php

Remember--this is the same Tom Delay who asked the FAA to track down the Democratic legislators who had crossed the border into Oklahoma to prevent the formation of a quorum when Delay was gerrymandering the Texas Congressional delegation. The same Tom Delay who told a maitre'd in D.C. "I am the federal government." Ozymandias in Sugar Land.

The only thing that would make this sweeter would have been to read Molly Ivins' commentary when his fall is complete.

Sorry he is in such pain. I thought bugs didn't have central nervous systems and couldn't feel pain.

Better stock up on the popcorn. And there's another good feature soon...Gonzales Returns to the Hill.

Code word: Petard, as in hoisted by one's own.

Don'cha just love it when these pompus assholes go to the mike and shout "bring it on." I just hope it really inspires the FBI and Justice. I wonder if some at the DOJ are now playing catch'up for giving these jerks passes for years, I surely hope so.

If you don't remember Delay did an off year redisrticting of Texas. In what were minority districts the boundries were changed to include enough Republicans to remove minority representation. It decimated fair representation in TX. Then he tooks funds and laundered them through the RNC.

I always wondered what type of men become "jailhouse gay".

Security Code: green Green is the color of grass, trees and corruption.

Green is money too, RandyR.

Sounds like the federales are growing some (balls) and realize they have a job to do. Guess he'll blame this on the DoJ like Doolittle did in his op/ed piece on Saturday?

Now we know what Tenets "slam dunk" comments meant! It was a fragment of this sentence 'It's a slam dunk I'll make millions of dollars if we exaggerate terrorism, cause I'm fully invested in security companies
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17664.htm

Or click my name. Go 'right' now and read it.

I can't believe I am going to say this...

I agree with Delay! Holy shit I said it!

the DOJ has run amok! god damn, I agree with the guy!

Schoddenfrodder. Is the overwhelming joy filling my heart wrong? Should my eyes flow with tears for the plight little Tommy Time-waster and Jonnie Do-nothing? Should my heart bleed white and whiter for the drunk bugman and his golf buddy?

“The agents systematically searched our home, removing every book, turning over every couch cushion and every pot and pan, and rummaging through every drawer, file cabinet, cupboard and closet...”

And if Bushco had its way, such a search wouldn't even require a warrant.

It's the Constitution, stupid.

Is it too much to hope for, that the Doolittle investigation drag out long enough for him to be on the ballot in Nov of '08? Charlie Brown (CA-04) couldn't have a better opponent.

Here's something that Ronnie Earle might want to look into - why the Oaks at Rio Bend Inc. changed its EIN# when it filed its 2003 990.

Oaks at Rio Bend is one of two charities associated with Tom and Christine DeLay, the other being the DeLay Foundaton for Kids, Inc.

Oaks at Rio Bend is the vehicle by which the DeLays set up homes for foster children on donated property in Fort Bend County TX. Until 2005, most of the Oaks at Ro Bend's funding came from the DeLay Foundation.

In 2003, the George Foundation, a very wealthy Texas private foundation, donated 30 acres of prime real estate to the Delay Foundation for Kids, according to its 990. But according to Fort Bend property records, the land was donated directly to the Oaks at Rio Bend.

For some unspecified reason, the Oaks at Rio Bend changed its EIN# number in 2003, the same year the George Foundation donated the 30 acres. Oddly enough, the Oaks at Rio Bend changed back to its old EIN# the following year.

Oaks at Rio Bend EIN# per 990s:
2001 - 752974534
2002 - 752974534
2003 - 752574959
2004 - 752974534
2005 - 752974534

The George Foundation recorded the value of the 30 acres donated at fair market value which it valued at $403k. The Oaks at Rio Bend valued the land at $180k.

The George Foundation made the commitment to donate the land to the DeLay Foundation in 2001 which was the same year that it "sold" valuable real estate at cost to the mysterious "Leahman".

Charles Herder, a Houston real estate developer, is a director of the George Foundation. He made his one and only contribution to Tom DeLay, $1k, in December 2001.

Things that make you go "Hmm..."

That EIN # issue sounds like something for a forensic accountant.
Hell, they got Capone on tax evasion, so why not the Bugman, too?

Delay is a pig and like all pigs he is useless until he is processed.

This must be driving Bush out of his mind.

Getting Doolittle and Delay is a good start. But the investigations into this past congress and the Bush administration will go on for years.

Nancy may say impeachment is off the table, but if the facts warrant it she wouldn't have a choice.

Anon@May 9, 2007 11:17 AM

I would think it would be fairly easy for someone to check why the Oaks at Rio Bend EIN#s changed and who changed them.

According to the 2005 Oaks at Rio Bend 990, the books are in care of Christine Delay at 1500 Pultar Road in Richmond TX 77469. Her phone number is 281-341-6257.

I'd call myself but I've been bugging some high-level GOP officials lately and I don't want to push my luck.

"Heh. Delay & Doolittle - sounds like a readymade law firm!" OldHippyChick

That pretty much sums up the Repug's mantra for a good many years now, doesn't it?

code word judge...as in "Here come da..."

Could it be that DOJ is trying to give the impression that they are an equal opportunity prosecutor?

Mike Valentine @ May 9, 2007 11:30 AM,

Your post is wildly unfair to pigs everywhere. I am sure that even the human-porcine hybrid, Karl Rove(r), would object to the suggestion that they might be related to the bugman.

steve5117 tinyurl.com is your friend.

The nation has stood while the Republicans held the majority for a *scandal*U free 5 years.
It must be killing Rove and his right wing machine to think all those years of hard work to keep their majority has gone out the window. Who would have thunk it: Tom "I am the federal government" Delay having been tossed from the leadership to the DOJ investigating and convicting their own.Not in their wildest dreams.These fools thought the American people would forever look the other way.

I would love to be a fly on that wall when Karl the albino pig, hurls blame around the whole incompetent inept immoral Republicans for losing their majority and for being investigated for their illegal activities.
If I wasn't so angry because the Iraq war, I'd be hopping with glee.

What's this country coming to when the FBI tosses the homes of politicos and questions the powerful and the friends of the powerful? They're treating these people like so many Blacks and Hispanics! There oughta be a law!

This case will get finished before the end of the '08 elections, and we know what that means, pardon time. Bush will pardon this snake and all will be forgoten, I hope Iam wrong!

Doolittle should thank his lucky stars that he wasn't shot and killed in the raid like 92 year old Kathryn Johnston was when her house was raided during a bogus "no-knock" drug bust. The sharpshooting marksmen in that incident fired 39 rounds at Ms. Johnston, hitting her a total of 5 or 6 times.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/26/atlanta.indictments.ap/index.html

'RICO' Delay has much to concern himself with. MyGawd! They gonna lock up Paris Hilton, and she has real money. What's gonna stop them from locking up a low-rent turd like 'RICO'? He and Lieing Leezy are in the same boat. No one believes them and no one wants to see t