Liberty's Blog

In the Wake of the Tom Delay's Resignation

Tom Delay's resignation caught many of us by surprise, and almost everyone has something to say about it.
Greg of Rhymes with Right has a lot to say and wonders about who will run in his place.

... but a big part of the equation is going to be who the candidate who replaces him turns out to be. The DeLay loyalsists -- the many folks who have had signs out in the since before the primary race -- will back whoever the choice is. But will we be able to draw back the 1/3 of GOP primary voters who were disenchanted enough with Tom DeLay to vote for one of his opponents -- either the pair of non-entities or Tom Campbell (the relative unknown).

Greg also notes that voters are going to be disapointed when they don't have any input into the selection of the replacement candidate.
John Hindraker of Power Line believes that Tom may be a victim,

It's too bad, I think. DeLay was an effective leader, albeit too liberal in recent years. It's possible, of course, that he did something wrong along the way. But there is no evidence of that in the public domain; as I've often said, the politically-inspired prosection of DeLay by Travis County's discredited DA, Ronnie Earle, is a bad joke. As far as we can tell at the moment, DeLay appears to be yet another victim of the Democrats' politics of personal destruction--the only politics they know.

Peculiar to see Delay being acused of being too liberal, but maybe John was disapointed in Delay's participation in pork projects, his unwillingless to take control of a huge budget, as Glenn Reynolds the Instapundit puts it:

I'm not sorry. His "no fat in the budget" remark lost me, and I was never much of a fan.

Charles Kuffner at Off the Kuff is surprised but gives ole Tom a parting shot,

Wow. I never expected him to do anything but go down fighting. I'm in shock.
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Geeze, what a wussy.

I don't believe ole Chuck is all that dissapointed though.

It's morning and Tom DeLay is still quitting. How sweet is that?

Jack Kluth is celebrating.

I’m usually not one to dance on the grave of someone’s career, but you’ll have to excuse me if I make an exception for Tom DeLay. I’m going to wear out my dancing shoes on the fresh turned earth celebrating the demise of perhaps the most corrupt politician of our time. It’s just too bad that the denizens of District 22 couldn’t be roused from their moral slumber to do this sooner.

Life is good, isn’t it? Yes, it certainly is….

Ding Dong, the witch is dead….

Rob is gloriously cynical

In my dark moments, I think that maybe the Birchers and the left-wing moonbats are on to something. Maybe there really is a criminal group that actually runs the country and all these politicians we see are just actors playing roles. Watch the Sopranos enough and you start to wonder what the difference is between La Cosa Nostra and the Congress.

Laurence Simon says good bye.

Sayonara, you crooked bug-killing fuck.

Kevin Whited notes a good Job by the Galveston Daily News.

And so the Chron is scooped by Time and the Galveston Daily News in its own back yard. Impressive!

and in a Libertarian mail list a candidate comments:

Oh dang...



I have truly mixed emotions.



Sure DeLay is an ignornant, hateful, power-crazed, bible-thumping,

right wing lunatic; but he was also a sponsor of the Fair Tax.



It's sort of like watching my mother-in-law drove off a cliff in my

brand-spankin'-new Jaguar.

Every one is entitled to opinion, Mine is: The charges against him are politically motivated. Its lousy that he got drummed out the way he did. I won't miss him at all though and am glad the arrogent SOB is gone. His own words have shown how he holds the taxpayer / voter in disregard. "I am the government" and "No fat in the Budget" are too of Tom's classic. Good riddance! now maybe the Republican Congress can do what we elected Republicans to do.

posted by Liberty @ 7:16 PM