The teevee says that Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) will be indicted this afternoon. Why the delay? Who knows, maybe the paperwork got forgotten behind some kielbasa in the freezer.
Buh-Bye
by Tim F| 46 Comments
This post is in: Democratic Stupidity
Tom
Guess the Swamp Drainer had bigger swamps to drain.
Rome Again
Democrat or not, if he was dirty, he had to go. I wish Republicans would figure that out.
demimondian
I’m not sure how much delay there’s bin. I’d kind of like one of our ex-prosecutors (e.g LITBMueller) to say whether there was an usual delay or not.
Scruffy McSnufflepuss
I wish this piece of shit were a Republican. Claiming him isn’t fun.
Rome Again
As far as I’m aware, the only unusual Delay is in Texas!
::nyuh nyuh!::
Paul L.
Do you mean like the Republicans abandoning Duke Cunningham and Mark Foley?
Andrew J. Lazarus
Kielbasa?? WHat gatrogeographic ignorance.
Hot links.
Andrew J. Lazarus
Kielbasa?? What gastrogeographic ignorance.
Hot links.
SPIIDERWEB™
Finally! It was never “circumstantial evidence”. The guy was caught and deserves to be put down.
Yeah, even Dems fuck up sometimes. And this guy fucked up big time.
Bubblegum Tate
So long, jaggov! And don’t come back!
Rome Again
No, actually, I’m thinking more about how you guys didn’t abandon Delay and anyone who you thought you could get away with holding on to. I said, if Jefferson was dirty, he had to go. I would say that about any member of Congress. That’s the difference between you and me. Don’t pretend that gap isn’t there, because you know it is. Case in point: ethics standards being overlooked and changed to keep Delay in his seat. Say no more.
ThymeZone
Caution the gentleman not to let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.
Jimmmmm
TZ: I was gonna say, “close the window on your way out.”
Jake
Great. I’m even looking forward to all of the pundicks screaming “LOOK, A BAD DEMOCRAT!”
We can roll those tapes of the bi-partisan squealing that broke out when his offices were raided.
The only way one dirty Dem is equal to the long list of rouges, con-artists, crooks and perverts brought to you by the GOP is if you’re using Karl Rove’s The Math.
Otto Man
He may switch parties in hopes that the Republicans will instinctively rally around any criminal with an R after his name.
Pb
No–because that only happened after they confessed their crimes, and even then it was pretty weak. (Which you might have known if you weren’t a total hack.)
Rome Again
Isn’t it true that Hastert defended Foley until it started to look indefensible, and then Fox News ended up putting a (D) next to his name so as to try to confuse the base away from realizing he was a Republican? I seem to recall a graphic with evidence that Fox News tried to sell him to their viewrs as a Democrat after the story got really nasty.
maf54
Hey, everyone likes a little Democrat now and then, especially at my pizza parties.
Rome Again
Oh, it was just a party game? Gosh, now I feel so foolish!
Jake
Yes and yes. Hastert even tried to claim it was all a prank and people were being so unfair dear old Foley Catheter. After all, Maffy was a strong supporter of the Missing & Exploited Children Act.
You’ve never heard of “Spin the Text Message?”
The Other Steve
You gotta be a spoof.
This is what one of your prominent Republicans had to say about Cunningham:
That’s right. Cunningham may have taken $2.4 million in bribes, but he was still better than the Democrats!
Rome Again
No, no I haven’t. That sounds fun. Hmmmm, I gotta try that sometime, if I could just find someone to try it on.
Dave
Haven’t you figured this out yet Steve? Everything is black and white. If you are a Republican you’re good, a Democrat you’re bad. I mean that nasty stretch of peace and prosperity we had in the 90s was bad. A corrupt Democrat: Bad. Corrupt Republicans: Good. Delay? Good, a victim of vicious Democrats.
The last few years I’ve come to realize that the 28%ers view of the world is childish. There is only their world view, nothing else. Only people who validate their world view are good, everyone else is bad.
Joshua
Karl Rove’s The Math? Is that something like The Secret?
Oh, and wouldn’t it be andouille?
Jimmmmm
GOP: Games system to protect indicted Majority Leader, Tom Delay
DEMS: Dem House leadership strips Jefferson of his committee memberships and isolates him while he’s under investigation of wrongdoing.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/7322.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/15/jefferson.caucus/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101136.html
So why is this piece appearing under the heading, “Democratic Stupidity”? He was busted. The Dem leadership took action. His constituents elected him anyhow. Shouldn’t this be labeled “Creole/Cajun Stupidity”?
Vlad
Good riddance.
Andrew
Speaking of ex-congress critters, Dick Armey is “blogging” over at Swampland, which has engendered some strong agreement in the comments:
Alright, which one of you is writing this?
Zifnab
Wait, is that Mark Foley or Mark Foley(D) or GERRY STUDS WAS WORSE!!! Mark Foley? And was this the Duke Cunningham that FOX defended for the media abuse he suffered just because he took $2 million in bribes?
Yeah, those conservatives were so very, very, very hard on them.
ThymeZone
Democrats keep $100k in the freezer for prostitutes and fun money.
Republicans keep $100k in a drawer in the White House to pay off burglars to steal opponents’ documents.
Democrats get blow jobs from interns.
Republicans get blow jobs from K-Street lobbyists.
Yeah, it’s all the same.
Pb
So… what if Jefferson doesn’t want to go (and apparently he doesn’t) — should the House vote to expel him? And after that, can we pretty please have a few long-overdue impeachment hearings as well…
Rome Again
Yes, and Yes!
Rome Again
It surely sucks, doesn’t it?
Off Colfax
I can see the chickens coming home to roost.
And I hope they run him over.
ConservativelyLiberal
I believe in the ‘innocent until proven guilty’, but in this case if Jefferson does not have a good excuse for the large sum of cash in the icebox, he needs to go. Yesterday.
Innocent until proven guilty is fine, and there is nothing wrong with that. But if a murderer is busted with a knife dripping blood in hand, it still applies to him but we all know that the person is guilty. Same if you are busted with a house full of pot plants, you are innocent until proven guilty but it sure looks like the conclusion is preordained by your possession of the goods you were busted with.
There is no room for fudging here, he was caught red handed (or is that blue handed?) and if he can’t give a plausible reason for the cash in the icebox, toss him out on his ass and let the wolves loose on him.
Rome Again
Well, perhaps he can give an excuse, I mean, after all, they WERE frozen assets! ;)
(don’t hit me)
Eural
Hey, speaking of The Hammer – does anybody have an update on what’s going on with his case? I can’t find anything anywhere and I just gotta know…. Thanks! :)
The Other Steve
Senator Craig Thomas(R-WY) has died.
Leukemia they say.
Sri Ramkrishna
May he rest in peace. Death to Leukemia.
sri
Bombadil
Faux News doesn’t just get party affiliation wrong. Apparently to the folks at Faux, they really all do look alike.
Bombadil
Jefferson is from Louisiana. More likely it was andouille.
Zombie Santa Claus
That’s Ali G-level spoof, there. Thank you.
yet another jeff
Engendered comments on the trandsgendered? Tranny tyranny?
Zombie Santa Claus
LOL.
I liked Jack Fremont’s comment over there:
That guy shows up at Blogs4Brownback a lot. He’s a semi-regular. Kind of a wannabe BIRDZILLA. Usually pretty funny, though.
Rome Again
Damn, I can’t see the graphic at work, but judging from the write up, I can only imagine they pasted Conyers’ face on the indictment notice? It figures! Do they get ANYTHING right?
Bombadil
They rolled a clip of Conyers walking through a crowd in a Congressional hearing room while the chyron showed the headline about Jefferson. At least they got the color and party affiliation right, so it’s a start. Two out of three ain’t bad.
Rome Again
Obviously, the subliminal message being sent was “all black democrats are crooks”?
They really are a hateful bunch, aren’t they?