Couldn’t happen to a more deserving turd…

I’m an atheist but this may restore my faith in god.

YEA!!!!!!!! That inbred Gov. Perry will most likely pardon him, though

“guilty on all counts”…like music to my ears…have fun in club fed you fucking douchebag…

Finally! Thank you Texas jury!

He was found guilty of violaing state law, not federal law.

Bet Fox Noise isn’t covering this.

See Obama this is what happens when you aren’t afraid to look back!

One Republican on his way to jail with only about another 150 Republicans left to prosecute.

Come on, Obama show us what a “strong leader” you are by looking back and prosecuting some of these thugs for torture at least! Please!

He’ll appeal and be free within a couple of years.

tom “the Hammer” doh! lay

Wouldn’t a pardon of DeLay hurt Perry’s tough on crime creds when he makes his Presidential run, though?

The hammer goes to the slammer…

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy! Too bad Texas doesn’t have pink undies.

so what…

I told the Texas bashers there are pockets of sanity in Texas.

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And what an ideal time to be able to give thanks…

Guillotine.

according to the AP he can get up to LIFE in the fun house.

Next up for DeLay (and what a perfect prison name for him)… “Dancing with the Soap”!

(They don’t call it the “slammer” for nothing)…

It’s about time.I had forgotten all about that, No wonder the Texas DeLay GOP Zionist have been so silent. I wonder if he’s going to make a deal on the sentence & give up other GOP hierarchy involve in money laundering?
Glad the people finally won one. So lets keep going & put more behind bars.
By the look of his mug shot he never expected to be found guilty, I guess his supporter couldn’t pay off the right people. Of course he’s not behind bars yet!

Where are the “trollers” for the koch brothers? Hopefully eating their vomit.

Will this be “reported”, errr, lied about on FAUX NEWS?

Say good night Tom?

Don’t get soft, now, Texas. Treat this guy like he stole a television. Put him away for life!

Nope FAUX will have a “technical difficulty” and scroll “Dem: Tom DeLay Found Guilty”…..

Yea he’ll keep appealing it until there is a reptilian, I mean republican president, then he’ll get a presidential pardon.

HA!

Hell, Obama will probably do it.

You know President Obama sent word to Texas that the jury must find DeLay guilty. And he ordered the judge to sentence to a long term in prison. Big government reaching out to stick it hands in the judicial system.

This lie was brought to you by Tea Party Republicans talking points.

It’s about time that SOB gets his deserved uppance. I hope he likes the prison sex clubs.

“Prosecutors alleged the Texas congressman helped funnel $190,000 in campaign cash to various Texas races in contravention of campaign finance laws.”

The Texas Constitution has an amendment stating that corporate money can’t be used in political campaigns in Texas. The Republicans in Texas knew this, so Tom Delay collected corporate donations inside Texas ($190,000), sent this to the national Republican party, which within days turned around and cut checks for Republican candidates in Texas for the EXACT SAME AMOUNT ($190,000). Gee, what a coincidence. The jurors got it right. A crime was committed. Republicans violated the Texas Constitution and campaign finance laws, with Tom Delay being in the middle of these corrupt Republicans, but not the only one.

Sound familiar? The entire Bush/Cheney administration. The fascist-activist Republican justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Citizens United. The Republican-controlled U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The U.S. House of Representatives starting (again) in January.

Any patriotic American citizen has to realize that the Republicans are an organized criminal gang, with many of them being criminally-insane, a criminal gang out to strip-mine all that they can get their greedy, blood-soaked hands on in America. And the criminal Republican motto: to hell with America, to hell with American workers, to hell with the U.S. Constitution, to hell with science, to hell with the future of America’s children and grand-children. Literally, the Republicans are out to drag America down into the Republican version of hell. God bless them, for “they don’t know what they do,” with their goal of crucifying Uncle Sam on their rugged old right-wing cross.

No no, no, too logical. Are you forgetting this is in Texas?

It’s Thanksgiving, everyone! And a huzzah for Texas justice (for once).

Agreed!

Boy, are you easy! Even if there were a god, she would have washed her hands of this place eons ago, about the time we evolved opposable thumbs.

Please- in another few years, especially under TSA surveillance you won’ t be able to say those things anymore. Free speech will be a thing of the past.
My country I cry for you.

Congrats Hammer … how’s that cock sucking smile working for you now?

I think it was just an anomaly in the time-warp continuum.

DeLay’s To-Do List:

(1) Order some soap-on-a-rope.

(2) Call Martha Stewart for her homemade shank recipe.

I wonder if they’ll still let him dye his hair in prison?

Ya, guess it doesn’t take much. But, in this day and age I’ll take what I can get.

Spaghetti Monster, time-warp, whatever…we’ll take the “win” for justice.

Please some Texas lawyer tell me that there are sentencing guide lines for money laundering and he’s going to jail for 25-100 years…..please….please….please.

Wow, my faith in the judicial system just got a much needed lift.

I am going to have to reconsider my general opinion of the texas justice system. They just convicted one of the good ol boys. Hats off to them. “Hey, Tom, better brush up on your Bitch Vocabulary.. I just love it,,

I had to read this twice to make sure I wasn’t daydreaming. I fully expected them to acquit on all charges. In my opinion, good job jurors.

Yeah, and too bad our RW Supreme Court made this kind of thing perfectly legal and anonymous in most other states.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
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ahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha
ahahaaHAHAHAHahahaHAHAHahahahaha
ahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA

now get Bush and Cheney to the Hague.

yeah, he’ll use coffee grounds, and grape koolaid for eyeshadow

minimum sentence is 7 years on the two counts
maximum sentence is 119 years.

Hell, yeah! Burn, baby, burn!

Tom Delay better buy himself some big jar of Vaseline to take with him just in case he ends up bunking up with with big bad Leroy Brown, the baddest man in the whole lockdown.

I’m concerned with his being able to take his dance shoes with him so he can practice the Cha Cha Cha.

hahaha, you got me Dorothy.
I was reading your first couple of sentences scratching my head and mumbling WTF? to myself.
then I read the punchline.
nicely done!

I am Sarah Palin and I approve this message.

more details here

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2010/11/24/delay_judge_think_about_thanks.html?srcTrk=RTR_95649

“He (Delay) faces a possible sentence of 5-99 years in prison and a maximum $10,000 fine on the money laundering charge, and 2-20 years in prison and a possible $10,000 fine on the conspiracy charge.”

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2010/11/24/delay_judge_think_about_thanks.html?srcTrk=RTR_95649

That ought to knock that shit eating grin off of this evil cocksuckers face. Rot in hell Bugman.

They don’t use that in the Asstate of Texas anymore. They’ve got the chair now.

this guy will have it cushy in prison I promise. At least compared to other criminals.

There’s rich guy prison too you know. It won’t be without it’s punishments, but with it being federal, probably the only sex Tom Delay will be having will be with his willing consent. They separate the violent inmates from the non-violent ones fairly well anyway but in the case of high profile guys like Delay, they end up in a camp where they can buy black sweat pants and shirt and there’s a camp ground within walking distance to which inmates can go and have conjugal visits with people and pick up a fat sack and a twelve pack for back at the baracks.

This guy is the scapegoat so Obama can “think forward”>>>>>>>>>>>

You do know that club fed is fun, right? That’s where they have the tennis court and swimming pool. In his case, they’ll probably put in a dance floor so he can practice the Cha Cha Cha

By the way, I forgot to mention that his skills as a bug exterminator should enable him to gain meaningful employment in any prison that he is sent to. A fitting end to his political career. Scooping up cockroaches.

Not me. I’m saving my faith-restoring (not that ever had any) for the day Bushco goes down.

“but with it being federal”

*cough* these are not federal crimes *cough*

Can you Mexican gang rape? I knew you could.

He does bring a great many skills to the prison system.
1. He “Was the Government”
2. Experienced “Roach” exterminator
3. The “Dancing With The Stars” experience should come in handy for those “lonely” prison parties.
4. A nickname like “The Hammer” sure sounds like a prison nickname.

his dance card will be full in no time…

He has one hell of a make-up artist. His face looks like a Pineapple without all that pancake #6 his wears.

Don’t bend down to pick up the soap, Tom…

Some have mentioned that he is (was) liked by an ally of ours in the Middle East. Seems he used to enjoy on leading junkets to that part of the world.

Guess the truism of what goes around comes around and around still works smiles and all.

Say hi to your new husband, Bubba.

I”ll toast to that. Justice “Delayed” but was not denied hehe

and then…he will get the “medal of freedom”!…(pun intended)…

This is the best Thanksgiving ever!

Probably another ‘Too big to fail’

Nope..betcha he goes to Huntsville. This is not a Federal conviction it’s state and Texas state prisons are not like “Club Fed”…

They will spin it an an injustice to this ‘Great Leader’

When they get done with him being the bitch, he will probably want to sit down in a chair.

no…thats too quick…

…dancing with the soap..ha ha ha ha ha. Think he will meet up with the “mop” stick, after the janitor bought the new “Swifter”?

“You like whitewatre raftin’ boy? Take out yer dentures- it’ll make yer mout’ a whole lot purtier.”

As a Texan, we thank you for your reconsideration..
Times change, slowly, but times change…

I was talking about the musical chair, of course. But I rather enjoy the thought of him becoming everybody’s bitch. That’s a bettrer punishment for his crime.

I thought that was some coke left over from his hot tub days.

I bet he’ll get lots of practice swinging his hips from side to side also.

Only in the shower with the other boys…

I think my heart skipped a beat.

If the judge doesn’t hand down a record light sentencing or overrule the jury, I may have to actually experience optimism…or at least the notion that our justice system isn’t 100% corrupt.

And for the record…no one was fooled by the money swap…it was grossly illegal…a complete fiction spelled out as illegal in existing laws.

I’ll party with ya on that one, but for now, I’m enjoying the crumbs on the floor. Till then there’s the fetus in a jar controversy, if you’re into theater of the absurd.

Perfect. Or make it a loaf of bread and that fucking sheriff from arizona can harass him until he drowns in The Rio Grande.

Just watched him on the news. he’s sure lost that shit-eating grin.

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHA!

just made my day. can’t wait to ask my republican in-laws if they will write him in prison.

i am confident that with his charm, good manners, and grace that he will be crowned the Prom Queen of cell block D.

The fellas in the slammer will enjoy watching The Hammer on Dancing With The Stars…er, Dancing Behind Bars. He better take a case of condoms with him.

this comment thread will go down in history!…nice work peeps!…

I hope Martha Stewart has her “connections” to make his life miserable behind bars. Like no “tory ass-gaskets.”

He’ll probably just get probation and another book deal, but here’s an idea: make him work six months in those Saipan textile sweatshops he was so thrilled about protecting from US labor laws back when he was House majority leader. That’ll be a junket he won’t forget.

DeLay is the one who criminialized politics. He still doesn’t get it.

“The criminalization of politics undermines our very system and I’m very disappointed in the outcome”

Wow. Just, wow.

No, Tom, it’s the injection of crime into politics by crimiticians such as yourself that led you to this sorry fate. The only real crime is that so few of you criminals actually get convicted for what you do.

Tis you Tom that abused your elected representative position and the only person you can blame is yourself for your legal troubles.

Tom Delay starring on Dancing With The Bars

Hee! Hee! Do you think that he knows the words to “Prisoners of Love” or “Doing the French Mistake”?

Always bend at the waist.

hahahaha…they might let him wear those little outfits that he was wearing on the show as well…aaaaaaaahahahahaha…

I’m still looking for the sarcasm.
Or are you Forest Gump’s stunt double?

Thank Christ the trial was in Travis County. And even here, I was worried some “Take Back Texas” retard would hang the jury. Still, we’ll be lucky if he does a day of time — so fingers crossed on appeal and sentencing.

Holder this is how it works.

It is good to know that there is some justice remaining in the world. Perhaps life in prison will help Mr. DeLay understand that he is NOT that special and privileged.

For now you can stay in the Union.
But you still have Perry.
Also the teabaggars love to quote Jefferson, but didn’t your education board write him out the future text books?
His best statement ‘ GOD created beer so we would be happy!’. Something to that effect.

Dont forget the lube too. But hey, Delay is so slick he probably doesnt need any.

I vote max.

I be the Koch brother’s an I paid for this message.

ROFL! That’s exactly what I was thinking! Maybe he can take one of those with all the rhinestones and a matching thong. I’m sure his new cellmate, Big Bubba Brown will rather enjoy that. Ha ha!

May he rot in the cell. But we are still short 535 convictions. The rest of the Congress needs to join old Tom behind bars. And then we turn to corporations…..

And blame it on Obama.

See below. He rethought that one. Now, he has him dying by anal sex.

Holy freaking crap-o-rama, we have REASON to celebrate Thanksgiving this year. Huzzah and there is justice. Even in Texas.
Hey Mr. Tommy? Y’all say hello to Bubba-in-the-bighouse, okie-dokie? Can you say ‘house mouse’?

Obama, you lame bitch this is what people expect!
JUSTICE!

Give ‘em an extra 50 on top of max just for good measure.

He’ll still have it cushy I’ll bet. Texas has a large enough prison system to have camps. That’s what makes a place like Iowa suck if you’re in prison, the population is so low that there is only one prison and all prisoners go there, violent and non-violent. In a state like Texas there are prisons with satellite camps. He’ll be at one of the camps I’m sure.

Once there he’ll be a leg humping rat bastard and he’ll weasel his way around as a petty power broker because he still has rich friends and will have money to lord over the rest of the poor inmates there. He’ll talk about how powerful he is and that he’ll have this or that guy killed, blah blah blah, I’ve heard it all before.

I spent 6 years there for pot and LSD. I know what he’s looking at. I’ll be really surprised if he makes it into general population.

lets wait and see if gov perry pardons this POS (if he runs for pres, he may have a reason not to)

he can join the prison football team…he can start out as a tight end, after a while he can be wide receiver…

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I’ll bet his co-defendants will sing like Canaries now that DeLay got his..
They thought they’d get a slap on the wrist since it was tried in Houston, DeLay’s former district.
This could prove to be very interesting.

Ha ha! That’s funny. You picked up on the fact that they like to quote Jefferson. I was having it out with one of ‘em Teabaggers this weekend and I tried to quote Ben Franklin. The guy tells me that BF doesn’t mean anything to him because he never met the guy and he can’t trust what books say about him because he doesn’t know those guys either. ROFL! The guy is a preacher! Lord, never heard anything so funny in my life. You understand, he doesn’t get the irony or the hypocrisy in it all.

I wanna serve on that jury! And if I can’t, I wanna enter the lottery to pull the rope on the bastards.

The criminals in politics undermine our very system, and Tom Delay is very representative of this outcome.

Here’s a great headline;

Former Bug killer Tom Delay Crushed Like A Cockroach By Texas Jury

See it on my blog in a few minutes

http://www.qcmississippimud.com

High profile? You think people in jail watch Dancing With The Stars?

You mean, he can kill them with his dance shoes and then scoop ‘em up.

This is an abuse of power. It’s a miscarriage of justice! It went on far to long and today, at least until vast sums of money are moved to overturn the verdict of twelve angry monkeys, it ends.

I take no joy in the idea of sending a man to jail. Taking a father and husband away from his family. But sometimes we must do evil in order to prevent a greater evil. Right?

I am in no way disappointed, that will come when he gets 2 months in a country club.

You think they’ll let him bring DVDs of DWTS for show and tell at the “lonely” prison parties?

Dear Justice System,

Hammer DeLay’s vile ass right into the longest prison sentence possible.

That is correct sir.

I betcha he can dance to ‘em both.

Thanks good people of Houston for showing America how dish out some Justice. Harry and Nancy, take note.

I was thinking the same thing. Awesome thread! I’ve been laughing my ass off all night.

[...] Tom Delay, guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. [...]

Terry Schiavo can finally rest in peace.

throw the book at him

First reaction: Gloat. Just desserts for the ex-terminator. Bend over and smile, boy.
Second reaction: The appeals will last forever. He’ll die or disappear long before then.
Third reaction: Wanna bet some Texan judges he greased into office may spring him?
Fourth reaction: One down. 300 to go. Catch’em before they all head off for Brazil.

Yeah, I was just trying to see what it was like in the Texas system, I know it can’t be like “club fed” which I’ve been close to but not in, I did most of my time in medium security.

Is Huntsville the reputedly “easy” prison to be in? I put the quotation marks around that because no prison is easy and even house arrest and being barred from politics would be better than I ever expected out of this case to be honest. It does somewhat restore your faith a little in the justice system when you see a guy like this go down.

The thing is, I wonder who he’s still protecting and who he could hurt still and whether or not his friends can protect him from the people that would rather just see him slip in the shower shortly after being remanded to the custody of the Texas Prison System. That can very easily be arranged and a guy like Tom Delay would have to purchase protection. Some one will foot that bill for him I’ll bet. He’s still got friends in the good old bastards club I’m guessing. Maybe not though.

bad thing is they all think they are untouchable. “the criminalazation of politics”??? no one is above the law or atleast its suppose to work that way.

I sadly admit that we have more than our share of ass-hats. But we’re doing the best we can as we can. The “Hammer” getting nailed should help slow the dirty money down a little and at least tilt the playing field to a 45 degree angle instead of the current 90 degree..

Help us if you can.

oops my bad, he was tried in Travis County. Austin not Houston.

Chris Mathews will give Delay conjugal visits. He doesn’t want to break up over this.

Oh, shit, yeah. The fetus in a jar. I’m still crying over spilled milk, thinking that it could have been him instead of his evil brother.

I’m certain Ken Lay had a sex change and is now a hooker in New Orleans.

Football team? Naw…too manly. I see him more in a pink tutu and matching slippers.

Shit, I just finished reading your comment. Damn! ROFL!

You mean, the Cock brothers, don’t ya?

Help? Don’t you think we all got the same kinds of problems?

Excellent point. The Obama administration wants to “look forward,” not back. But the Texas court decided, “A crime is a crime, whether it was committed under a Republican or Democratic administration.”

DeLay knew exactly what he was doing. He probably wasn’t the only one, but that isn’t a defense.

New reality show: “Dancing with Jailbirds.”

The Hammer gets hammered.

They should offer Tom a deal to rat out Trent Lott, Karl Rove, Jack Abramoff. Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. I love the idea he’d be sent to a Saipan textile sweatshops. Terrible ending to a cheerleader’s career.
Go Tom Go Tom Go Tom

You mean a rope?

So cruel.

mr delay’s penchant to hold forth in the hot tub garnered him the nickname hot tub tom. how many dudes will hot tub tom be able to fit in to his hot tub in huntsville? they’ll love hearing hot tub tom talk about the nuances of politics. hot tubbing is a way for friends to make new friends!

you’re welcome.

sounds like there is a ‘pants off dance off’ coming for the Hammer.

LOL

I smell a future FOX news contributor!!

Hey Tom, you’re going to be someone’s little puppy in prison. Don’t forget the Astro-Soap®, you’ll be needing it in the shower. So don’t Delay, act today.

I have to wonder how much dancing former “Dancing With The Stars” participant Tom DeLay will be doing in prison. Could be he will learn a new version of the Hokey Pokey! We can only hope.

They’ll just gerrymander the district and make his prison part of Costa Rica.

oh, the ‘friends’ he will make on the inside.

what song is traditionally played during the ‘pants off dance off’? i need to call the radio station and request it once the Hammer gets his 7 year sentence handed down.

Waa haa…You guys are brutal. But I like it. I like it. Maybe, we should send some of these down to the jailhouse’s comments and suggestions box

In Texas there are very few medium/minimal security state prisons. Those few that are, are for substance abuse crimes. Pretty much everything else is maximum security.
Even county jails are rough here…

Whhhhoooo Hooooooo! Happy Holidays!!! ^_^

well, well, “a mis-carriage of justice”, he says. republicans always say so when they get caught and they scream and holler at dems for far lesser infractions. this is bigger by 100x than rangel’s pitch for a school named after him or his use of subsidized housing for his political work, or for forgetting rental income on a beach villa in puerto rico. after all iran-contra reagan got an airport named after him and marble a mausoleum on the west coast. that guy with the bills stuffed in his freezer is brought up in every republican rant about corruption. yet watch, the delay “jury verdict of guilty on all counts” story will die in two days on mainstream media, gov perry will commute his sentence and he will go to work on fox as a “political analyst.”

“The criminalization of politics undermines our very system” how right you are Mr. Delay. and a jury of your peers has found thath your total disregard for the rule of law makes YOU a criminal!

Let it be written in the history books that, in of all places, American justice started its come back in Texas.

Dear Tom,

I suggest you get a food taster and only fly commercial. The “family” now considers you a liability!

JohnnyW, I get that. Down here we are working against the Gulf Coast petro-chemical lobby, the defense lobby, until recently we were the home of Halliburtan, and the Connecticut Fratboy poser Bush the lesser calls Dallas home (sigh). So the deck is stacked against us more than other states…

You poor souls. You’ve got your work cut out for you. Actually, we all have – they’re all our cause. I have a buddy who worked for Chevron down in TX, hated every minute of it. Hated the ‘suits’ he used to work with. You should hear the stories.

It sounds to me like Tom Delay is getting ready to go from “Dancing with the Stars” to Dancing Behind Bars?

“‘This is an abuse of power. It’s a miscarriage of justice, and I still maintain that I am innocent. The criminalization of politics undermines our very system and I’m very disappointed in the outcome,’ DeLay told reporters outside the courtroom.”

***THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POLITICS UNDERMINES OUR VERY SYSTEM…***

Clearly the gentleman from Texas doesn’t realize the depth of irony in his statement.

That would be Ton Delay (D Texas)

Now back to our regularly scheduled revolution at the airport.

Anyone taking bets that Mr. Bipartisan Kumbaya – bama will pardon or commute his sentence?

I mean, it happened in the past and we should just look forward. Right?

DeLay will be sentenced to time served, if the prosecutors didn’t already commit “misconduct” like in the Ted Stevens case.

Those jurors better move the hell out of Texas.

MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm…………..!!!! “DeLay has chosen to have Senior Judge Pat Priest sentence him.”…..?????? I don’t like it……..worry the big “fix” is in…

Yeah, I’m so glad the HAMMER finally got HAMMERED!!!!

He is now a certified convict and a felon and I’m luvin’ it!!!!

Sexual assault isn’t funny, but the anal prison rape of a corrupt Republican pig (sorry again for the redundancies) who has committed what amounts to treason, will be hilarious.

Please do not insult pigs. They are harmless creatures, unlike the dirty corrupt Republican party.

I agree…Ken Lay’s heart attack was too convenient. He likely had some plastic surgery and is living high on his STOLEN millions. All with the help of the dirty corrupt Republican party.

Meaning?

Tom Delay was just a roach killer from Sugar Land when he entered politics. How fitting that his exit is as a roach. Maybe a hard bed in Huntsville.

Folks – the hammer’s never going anywhere near jail…. what were we thinkin? Cleansing his good name is in the works now…. and the laxative WILL WORK . Thanks to FNN.

He remains free on bond, and his sentencing was tentatively set to begin on Dec. 20.
He faces five years to life in prison on the money laundering charge and two to 20 years on the conspiracy charge.

When “prison time” fully sinks into Hot Tub Tom’s “you can’t touch this” weasel mind, he will panic. Like a cockroach with a flashlight beam on him, Tubby Tom will run for it, and when the cops catch him, it will get ugly. The sludge hammer will have bigger problems than “money laundering” before this is all over.

I’m gonna send Dale a nice fruit basket.
http://www.bolgernow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/tom-delay-mug-shot.jpg

NO WAY! Maybe he’ll bring down some of the other nefarious characters as well. (Still don’t think he’s going to jail for long).

My understanding is that there were quite a few charges that were dropped by the court. The same judges who he appointed made sure of that.

He’ll never be seen in a jail but he will be a felon which is going to cause him some harm. He wouldn’t be able to get into politics directly himself and that’s for sure.

Ahh so sad.

Always possible Abramoff may ‘remember’ something that will sink DeLay completely. Some of those other congressional dinks now serving time may also ‘remember’ DeLay.

He’s gone.

And since that’s failed, he’s trying to politicize crime.
The notion that the two just might be separate pursuits escapes him.

That there are 12 others besides myself who can see the distinction…kind of gives a special glow to Thanksgiving.

These are State charges and not Federal… I’m certain that Gov. Rick Perry already has the Pardon Pen out…

“Hang down you head, Tom Deee Lay,
hang down your head and cry,
Hang down your head, Tom Deee Lay,
Poor boy, you’re bound to … “.

Thanks to the Kingston Trio.

I’m so looking forward to that day, coming soon, that Tom’s colon will be Gerrymandered.

What was the DeLAY?

Delay: “This is an abuse of power.”

What does that mean? The judge didn’t make the ruling, a jury did. Regular people. They weren’t abusing any power, they were exercising their obligations as US citizens to apply the law fairly based on the arguments from both sides. I guess Delay’s side just wasn’t convincing enough.

Do you think he’s gonna have that smile on his face when the inmates tell him to bend over and submit to their version of a body cavity search?

Damn Democrats!

LOL, OK so what makes this politician any less corrupt than the next? I cant help but wonder whose toes he stepped on to bring that about!

Probably didn’t help he was involved in numerous scandals from Abramoff to the Mariana Islands, and helped shape a generation of Congressmen as the “Hammer”. Are there other “Delays” out there? Definitely! This is a start.

[...] to the Chippewas, the Agua Caliente, the Mississippi Choctaws and the Louisiana Choctaws from…Tom Delay!  Because Tom is as guilty as a Tim Eyman funded, dental clinic for the working [...]

This is the best reason to give thanks on this Thanksgiving Day……..I can’t believe there is still some justice left somewhere in this country. I hope he rots in prison though I know he won’t.

It is long overdue to take this type of money out of the political process. We all know the money corrupts the politicians. We must make it a level playing field such as public finance. Enough with the “he who has the most wins”. That is not representing the people that is representing the rich and corporations. Period. No more electronic voting either, good ole paper ballots is the best way and only way to recount votes in a close race. I truly believe elections are being altered and the glaring example is Bush vs Gore although there likely wouldn’t have been much of a difference with the Trojan horse named appropriately Lie-bermen.

Delay is a career criminal and he has been caught red handed ,if you or me got “done” as obviously as this sack of shit was ,we would be doing “life”.
Dennis Hastert should be sharing the cell with the “Hammer” …both are career criminals and guilty of treason. Life is lenient.

google … Sibel Edmonds

I automatically assumed there was a country club minimum security facility that had a suite reserved in his name.

Doubtful. Obama has pardoned fewer people to date that Bush II had done at the same time in his term, who had done less than Clinton, who had done less than Bush I.

Federal Pardons are drying up.

And the President can only pardon some convicted under Federal law. Delay was convicted under State law.

or a grenade.

Your implication is Reid and Pelosi have committed a crime. Maybe you could enlighten us as to what their crimes are?

Or just keep trolling.

Delay caused his own delay. He appealed everything and had the charges thrown out only to be refiled etc. Although politics are important in Texas, Judges will usually only go so far when they want to ignore the law. Especially when the case is very high profile. The prosecutor took a lot of abuse from the Texas Republicans but held tough and saw it through.

And yes, there have been tons of money spent on this case. I certainly hope you are wrong about that two months, in my opinion, I’m looking at two years. But in one of those hard ass country clubs where the inmates have to do with Texas Springs water instead of Evian.

A legal defense, no. Stupid? Damn right. Anyone who thinks they are that good they can get away with anything isn’t playing with a full deck.

So just.

The Sibel Edmonds story is not going to discussed in the corporate media.

My favorite part of the story?

“The criminalization of politics undermines our very system … .”

Nooooo shit!

Although the headline “all counts?” I was a bit disappointed to read it was ONLY 2!

Hey, it’s a start! Hopefully more will get what they have coming.

TOM DELAY GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS

RawStory, please keep this headline up. In fact, I urge you to keep this headline running on your site, til the end of time….keep it running, baby!!!!!!

Good News, ain’t that good?

Happy Thanksgiving, asshole

He’ll wriggle off the hook and then? The presidency in 2012 with Barbara Bush’s fetus as veep.

In the meantime, however–at least for this Thanksgiving–the turkey is well and truly stuffed.

It would be too much to hope for … that justice be served and this criminal creep be left to rot behind bars for a very very very long time. One can only dream…..

Woo Hoo ….. fetus in a jar !!

campaign finance reform is the answer.

Ding Dong the witch is dead! Who said Texas was totally backwards? At least us Austinites know which way is up.

lets hope they give him plenty of time in jail so he can practice his dance moves.
Tom DeLay Convicted in Money Laundering Trial
Former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress, was convicted Wednesday on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
http://www.newslook.com/videos/269102-tom-delay-convicted-in-money-laundering-trial?autoplay=true

Sorry, I was being sarcastic – tongue in cheek – a major dig at Obama for being spineless.and for believing his utopia, bipartisan delusion.

True. But he’ll probably be on Dancing With the Stars again with Bristol Palin.

Shameless.

She has some really amazing and frightening revelations about the nexus of corruption in Chicago and the US congress. It’s systemic and I believe it involves Obama via the convicted felon Tony Rezko and others. It may be one reason Obama is so powerless and there have been no prosecutions of Bush/Cheney Regime crimes.

Check out her web site @ http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/.

Too quick and relatively painless. I want that treasonous SOB in jail, having to fight for the rest of his miserable life just to survive. He is responsible for a lifetimes worth of suffering by his fellow CITIZENS, he deserves a lifetime of pain and suffering for his part in that. Destroying the integrity of one’s government should cost you a lifetimes worth of pain.

That being said, I smell a pardon coming from somewhere. I am not sure WHERE, exactly, but it’s on the way. This prick won’t serve as much as a single day, mark my words. Justice is for JUST US. Those at the top don’t EVER have to pay for their crimes, only WE get to do that. I hope like crazy that I’m wrong, but I doubt it.

Actually, the quote is from Ben Franklin, and I believe it goes like this: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”. Love that guy, he’s my one choice from history of who I would like to have dinner with.

But you’re right about Jefferson. Just amazing how the Texas “educators” would leave out ENTIRELY any mention of the man who did more to shape our country than any other. Leave it to Texas, the home of W and Rick Perry to dumb their own people down to the point of total ignorance and think they have to do more.

For anyone to claim that a verdict against Tom DeLay, of all people, is an abuse of power is the height of irony and cynicism. Tom DeLay wrote the book about abuse of power while he was in Congress, and apparently figured he was immune from prosecution for any crime whatsoever. He was not called “the Hammer” for displaying courtesy, humility, or faithfulness to standing law.

While he might have been taken by surprise by his original indictment, knowing better than anyone what he did, the verdict should have surprised him least of all. By his reaction, it looks like that was indeed the case.

Can’t hardly wait for the synchronized prison yard choreography videos to start showing up on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_o-uACayEA

I’m sure Tom had fantasies about becoming President of the United States from time to time – but at least now he’ll have a chance to be some lucky prisoner’s “First Lady”.

…unless perry decides to run for president in 2012—in which case it would be smart to let justice be and not risk any blowback. (thats the only reason I want perry to run—otherwise, he’s a pretty dangerous contender when compared to other GOP horses)

And to the people of su

I almost dressed up like Mr. Neutron for halloween but got lazy – - good taste, yo. Teddy Salad would be proud.

Yawn………………as this hack gets the proverbial congressional sentence, which to all us peasants means nil, nothing, nada.

the important thing to undestand about this is that large corporations put most of our politcians into office this way so they have a puppet in washington dc that will help them become monopolies or write the laws so they can lower the wages and benefits of thier workers year after year. tom just caught, the rest of them are doing this still.

Funny how he’s smiling wide in his mug shot in the pic above. He must have been thinking he would get away with this shit.
Bet you’re not smiling now hah, Bug Man?

This rat will still be making money. He owns a lot of KY Jelly stock. Also, he gets his free.

Ok so Hot Tub Tom needs his just rewards… Just think of a Hot Tub filled with boiling oil and lil Tom bobbing around merrily inside said tub for an eternity…..

We can hope can’t we???

Let him rot in jail for all eternity. Scumbag fuck.

Republicans Are A Disease.

Tom DeLay is one of the worst cases of “leaders” selling out to corporate scum.

http://www.RepublicansAreADisease.com

Remember Medicare Part D where the tax payer gets to pay up to five times as much for drugs as other countries pay. DeLay at work… Screwing us.

They give us one. Ha…

We’ll not stop till we’ve had them all.

One by one, may they swing breathless before the flag they failed to serve.

About time. Maybe he will get lucky and they have roaches in the prison he will be going to.

Yeah. I really hope I am wrong to. Frankly I have been so negative I hope I am never right again. I really need to see a little American justice happening. You know FBI Hoorah!

I think we all do.

We’re decades behind on that front though. I am less and less an optimist as time marches on.

I see only more lies and more war. Endless war.

Betcha he does no time – he’ll get probation.

Words like “powerful and “feared” kind of belie the notion of a public “servant”.

Now Mr. Tom Delay can be in charge money-free laundry in a prison laundry. Better still, if that doesn’t workout for him, DeLay can teach inmates how to dance, and the best dancers can audition for the prison’s version of DWTS–Dancing With The Inmates. They can pool their money to make costumes, rather than dance in prison uniforms.

I would love to see that video.

Can someone explain why Tom Delay was singled out, not given cover and hung out to dry?

“This is an abuse of power,” says Delay’s lawyer about the conviction. Boy, did I laugh at that one. It made my morning.

….from your lips to the judge’s hand.

At the very least…..
Convicted felon.
Loss of voting privileges.
Loss of 2nd amendment privileges.
New friends in prison.

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