Does anyone remember Newt Gingrich?
He was eventually found innocent... two years, and a fine and a resignation later. The bastards never even apologized, nor did he get the fine money back.

You don't need facts to destroy soemone, and to upset the balance of political power. You just need to run plays like this.

The Democrats are doing it yet again... and the sad part is a lot of Republcians are willing to help them.

Actually, Gingrich's resignation was largely unrelated to the ethics issue. The House GOP barely retained its majority in the 1998 off-year elections despite all of Clinton's problems. Gingrich was viewed as the primary catalyst.

See this BBC account.

Maybe the problems associated with the off-year elections had to do with the bogus attacks on Newt.

you forgot skippy the bush kangaroo: it's our partisan we'll cry if we want to!

Gingrich essentially took the fall for the GOP's poor showing in the 1998 midterm elections. He'd allowed the elections to become a referendum on Clinton's impeachment and it backfired.

Actually, Gingrich’s resignation was largely unrelated to the ethics issue. The House GOP barely retained its majority in the 1998 off-year elections despite all of Clinton’s problems. Gingrich was viewed as the primary catalyst.

And that missed opportunity, I would argue, was due largely to the attacks on Newt over supposed ethics violations, which cost enough votes to make the difference.

Like I said, they've done this before.

if Tom Delay broke any laws regarding illegal corporate donations, and that is a big if, the Democrats do it all the time. Except that they are given a free pass by the MSM. We have a lot of serious issues to deal with such as Hurricane Damage, high energy prices, and the ongoing war against Terror, and the democrats are willing to cause political chaos and uncertainty by bringing unsubstantiated but damaging charges against perhaps the most powerful and effective Republican leader in Washington. It is time for the Republican leadership to hit back hard , no holds barred. If the Dems are willing to play hardball, demonic, partisan politics, then Republicans should parry and give back blow for blow.

The character of the the conservative party, by nature is to be the Bully-bait for the Dems.

They won't hit back, they'll just whine about it.
Sorry, but my party of choice doesn't have what it takes to survive this war without morals or ethics.

If you actually read the indictment papers, you don't really even know what delay is being charged with. Look at this prosecutors past and he's done this before. It's just another partisan hack job by the left. same as the forged memos, same as the sheehan circus, same as the charges of racism after katrina. It's just another event for the left to screech about, and in a few months no one will even remember it since the dems will have something else entirely new to latch onto in an effort to destroy Bush.

and by the way, there are already mentions of something to do with senator reid and some priests or something?? i didn't read the whole story, but it's just the same as when they tried to nail him with the travel issue, and it was revealed the dems do it all the time, and many many many specific cases were cited, they backed right off. Wait for the cases to be cited here and they will back right off.

I'm just glad DeLay has been giving a barrage of media interviews to set the record straight. He'd have to be pretty stupid to come out this adamantly and say he has done nothing wrong if he actually has something to hide, and i don't even think a democrat is that stupid. well, wait.... er.... clinton did it.... oops. i take that back, a democrat WAS stupid enough. but you get the point.