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Thursday, October 06, 2005
When Tom DeLay was indicted, the story was on the front page everywhere. But today when we get some more information about the indictment against Tom DeLay, information that shows how far gone this prosecutor is in his pursuit of his big white whale, DeLay, the story doesn't show up in the Washington Post.
You won't find there the story that the prosecutor presented evidence for the second indictment to a second Grand Jury that returned a no-bill, a refusal to indict. So much for any prosecutor being able to indict a ham sandwich. Then Earle rushed to get a third Grand Jury to indict and was able to persuade them, after asking members of the other Grand Jury what he was doing wrong. Meanwhile, the foreman of the Grand Jury that did indict DeLay last week admits that he voted to indict because he was ticked off about unrelated GOP mailings to his house. And, of course, the first indictment was for a crime that the Texas Legislature had made criminal only a year after after the actions of Tom DeLay that he was indicted for. Do you smell ex post facto? Meanwhile, in order to prove that the practice was legal when DeLay's PAC was supposedly breaking the law, Politicalities has found evidence that the Democrats in Texas were doing the exact same thing. All the while, Earle has had a film crew following him around examining his Ahab-like hunt of DeLay, but he apparently didn't follow Prosecution 101 principles and check the date of the law involved.
As Generation Why notes, the blunders by this prosecutor would be funny if he hadn't already achieved his purpose of getting DeLay ousted from his position at Majority Leader in the House. It doesn't matter that the prosecutor is a joke or that DeLay may eventually defeat these charges or get them thrown out. The Democrats have their talking points about a "whiff of corruption" and they'll be able to say that all next election year. And most people will have no clue what was behind these charges.
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When Tom DeLay was indicted, the story was on the front page everywhere. But today when we get some more information about the indictment against Tom DeLay, information that shows how far gone this prosecutor is in his pursuit of his big white whale, DeLay, the story doesn't show up in the Washington Post.
You won't find there the story that the prosecutor presented evidence for the second indictment to a second Grand Jury that returned a no-bill, a refusal to indict. So much for any prosecutor being able to indict a ham sandwich. Then Earle rushed to get a third Grand Jury to indict and was able to persuade them, after asking members of the other Grand Jury what he was doing wrong. Meanwhile, the foreman of the Grand Jury that did indict DeLay last week admits that he voted to indict because he was ticked off about unrelated GOP mailings to his house. And, of course, the first indictment was for a crime that the Texas Legislature had made criminal only a year after after the actions of Tom DeLay that he was indicted for. Do you smell ex post facto? Meanwhile, in order to prove that the practice was legal when DeLay's PAC was supposedly breaking the law, Politicalities has found evidence that the Democrats in Texas were doing the exact same thing. All the while, Earle has had a film crew following him around examining his Ahab-like hunt of DeLay, but he apparently didn't follow Prosecution 101 principles and check the date of the law involved.
As Generation Why notes, the blunders by this prosecutor would be funny if he hadn't already achieved his purpose of getting DeLay ousted from his position at Majority Leader in the House. It doesn't matter that the prosecutor is a joke or that DeLay may eventually defeat these charges or get them thrown out. The Democrats have their talking points about a "whiff of corruption" and they'll be able to say that all next election year. And most people will have no clue what was behind these charges.
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When Tom DeLay was indicted, the story was on the front page everywhere. But today when we get some more information about the indictment against Tom DeLay, information that shows how far gone this prosecutor is in his pursuit of his big white whale, DeLay, the story doesn't show up in the Washington Post.
You won't find there the story that the prosecutor presented evidence for the second indictment to a second Grand Jury that returned a no-bill, a refusal to indict. So much for any prosecutor being able to indict a ham sandwich. Then Earle rushed to get a third Grand Jury to indict and was able to persuade them, after asking members of the other Grand Jury what he was doing wrong. Meanwhile, the foreman of the Grand Jury that did indict DeLay last week admits that he voted to indict because he was ticked off about unrelated GOP mailings to his house. And, of course, the first indictment was for a crime that the Texas Legislature had made criminal only a year after after the actions of Tom DeLay that he was indicted for. Do you smell ex post facto? Meanwhile, in order to prove that the practice was legal when DeLay's PAC was supposedly breaking the law, Politicalities has found evidence that the Democrats in Texas were doing the exact same thing. All the while, Earle has had a film crew following him around examining his Ahab-like hunt of DeLay, but he apparently didn't follow Prosecution 101 principles and check the date of the law involved.
As Generation Why notes, the blunders by this prosecutor would be funny if he hadn't already achieved his purpose of getting DeLay ousted from his position at Majority Leader in the House. It doesn't matter that the prosecutor is a joke or that DeLay may eventually defeat these charges or get them thrown out. The Democrats have their talking points about a "whiff of corruption" and they'll be able to say that all next election year. And most people will have no clue what was behind these charges.
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