By Douglas V. Gibbs
Tom DeLay, I believe, is a good man. I also believe he is an innocent man. However, what I believe did not matter when he faced a jury of his peers. They believed, after viewing the evidence, that Tom DeLay is not an innocent man. Last Wednesday Tom DeLay was convicted of money-laundering charges in a Texas state trial.
Did Tom DeLay commit the crimes he has been accused of? I don't know. I wasn't there when the alleged crimes were committed. And if he did commit any of those crimes, then he should pay the penalty afforded to him by this court which could be up to life in prison, but most experts say will simply be probation.
Recently, all of Tom DeLay's wrong doing had been cleared, and in essence he was an innocent man. . . all except for this one remaining charge, which claims DeLay conspired with two associates to use his Texas-based political action committee to send $190,000 in corporate money to an arm of the Washington-based Republican National Committee. The RNC then sent the same amount to seven Texas statehouse candidates, thus laundering the money. Under Texas law, corporate money can't go directly to political campaigns, and by following the money trail, it all led right back to DeLay.
The allegedly ill-transfered money helped Republicans gain control of the Texas House in 2002, and from that point the GOP was able to push through a congressional redistricting plan engineered by DeLay that sent more Texas Republicans to Congress in 2004. So, if anything, Tom DeLay is guilty of gerrymandering.
Fact is, from the very beginning, the deck was purposely stacked against DeLay by a Democrat Party determined to bring down a powerful member of the Republican Party. They succeeded, finding what they determined to be the weakest link, making as many accusations as possible, and as luck would have it, one of them stuck to the wall. As a result, a man's political career has been destroyed, a family has been wrecked, and a good man faces possible prison time.
Where were these vultures when Washington DC's Mayor Marion Barry's punishment for Cocaine was reelection? What about Jefferson's freezer full of cash, Pelosi's misuse of government aircraft (and the plane full of alcoholic beverages), Barney Frank's gay prostitution ring, Reid's team's voter fraud in Nevada, Maxine Water's ethics problems that have barely reached the evening news, or Rangel's slap on the wrist with censure when if he was a Republican his career would be destroyed? A bumbling idiot named Obama can't even remember what city he was in, or how many states there are, while campaigning, but somehow became President of the United States. It seems that Democrats can reach the far reaches of corruption, criminality, and idiocy without so much as a warning, yet a Republican can't even misspell "potato" without running the risk of political ruin.
I believe DeLay when he says he is innocent. The truth may never be truly known. One thing is for sure, there will be an appeal, and we haven't seen the rest of this yet. There is absolute moral truth, and humanity is flawed by nature, so perhaps DeLay is not as innocent as I believe he is, but one must ask: Would the years of investigations and trials have gotten this far if Tom DeLay was a Democrat?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Ex-House Leader DeLay Found Guilty in Texas Case - New York Times
Marion Barry takes another Crack - Townhall
William “Freezer” Jefferson Is Re-Elected - Sweetness and Light
Taxpayers' $101,000 includes Pelosi's in-flight 'food, booze' - World Net Daily
Frank tells of his despair during ’89 sex scandal - Boston Globe
Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid's name; voting machine technicians are SEIU members - Washington Examiner
Ethics charges against Maxine Waters add to Democrats' woes - Christian Science Monitor
Rangel's Wrist-Slap - New York Post
How often did Quayle misspell potato? - Hot Air
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