{"id":1360,"date":"2004-10-02T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/hammer-delay\/"},"modified":"2004-10-02T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T17:02:18","slug":"hammer-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/hammer-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammer DeLay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Analysts Consider DeLay’s Rebukes (washingtonpost.com)<\/a> By Charles Babington<\/p>\n

With House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) now involved directly or tangentially in a handful of ethics cases and investigations, some analysts say that another setback could substantially weaken the lawmaker’s ability to champion Republican causes and candidates.<\/p>\n

DeLay’s bare-knuckle tactics have sparked controversy and Democratic ire for years, but Thursday’s 62-page report by the House ethics committee highlighted DeLay’s questionable arm-twisting of GOP members when crucial votes are at stake. …<\/p>\n

The report’s conclusion marked the second time in five years that the ethics committee has chastised DeLay. A third setback, which conceivably could come from a pending complaint, would fuel critics’ claims that DeLay has crossed an ethical threshold, several analysts said yesterday. …<\/p>\n

DeLay [is] an energetic partisan admired by many colleagues and loathed by Democrats….<\/p>\n

Delay is known as “the Hammer,” not what you’d call a compassionate conservative. He has a sign in his office to the effect of ‘Today may be the Day’ (of the Rapture). mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Impeach Tom DeLay!<\/a>
\nLord of the Right Wing<\/a>
\nTom Delay is corrupt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Analysts Consider DeLay’s Rebukes (washingtonpost.com) By Charles Babington With House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) now involved directly or tangentially in a handful of ethics cases and investigations, some analysts say that another setback could substantially weaken the lawmaker’s ability to champion Republican causes and candidates. DeLay’s bare-knuckle tactics have sparked controversy and Democratic ire … Continue reading Hammer DeLay<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}