Tom DeLay to Oversee Justice Department

[Rose Siding]

via Jane at firedoglake, who says she's not drunk. It's from the AP article:

snip>
DeLay, R-Texas, also claimed a seat on the subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department, which is currently investigating an influence-peddling scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his dealings with lawmakers.

[LiberalEsto]

1. Fox to oversee hen house

Wolf to oversee sheep pasture

etc.

[PDJane]

2. Every time........

I think I've heard the absolute worst about this corrupt bunch of useless (insert own expletive here), they do something that proves me wrong.

Lord and Lady.

How do you get rid of these folks in a political system like yours???

[Angry Girl]

3. And the Dems say what? And the media say what?

*crickets chirping*

[TheModernTerrorist]

21. I'm sure Dems have said something

but you wouldn't know about it, nor hear about it from OUR media... :shrug:

[SillyGoose]

4. This is bullshit. Why is this allowed???

I'm fed up with these corrupt jerks. Geez...this is outrageous!

[rumpel]

5. I thought House Ethics Rule was when indicted he has to resign

it looks like he wants to stay on also from jail when convicted, as the ethics rule will change accordingly...

[WCGreen]

23. He just had to resign from his leadership position....

[alarimer]

6. That's outrageous!

Isn't Tom Delay involved in the Abramoff scandal somehow? What a scumbag! Hopefully he will lose his seat in November (or better yet, go to jail!).

[LoveMyCali]

7. I thought

that there were reported connections with Abramoff. Why are these things repeatedly allowed to go on?

[alarimer]

18. You got me there

Every time I turn on the news, it just gets worse.

[Betsy Ross]

8. THIS is unbleeping believable

Unbleeping believable.

[FormerRepublican]

9. Sounds like another move to halt Republican corruption investigations.

[laylah]

10. All I can do is

:rofl: :puke: :rofl: :puke:

Jenn

[canichelouis]

11. A disgrace

[chiffon]

12. The House of cards is shuffling a new deck. n/t

[Olney Blue]

13. Who made this decision?

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

[UTUSN]

14. i don't THINK so n/t

[fooj]

15. They are smoking some good shit in DC, aren't they?

Bullshit!

Peace

[flyarm]

16. Am i living in America?? my America...i no longer recognise her...

if this doesn't tell you about how the repubs feel
about corruption and our national laws..nothing will..an indicted congressman is now in charge of oversight of his own involvment in the abramoff corruption over seeing the justice dept...shaking head here..this country is doomed i fear...we have no honesty or integrity left as a nation ... do we??
what are laws anyway...they certainly are not for republicans or those who would take this country into a fascist state!

to think these are the same righteous people who told us over and over no man is above the law ..over a fucking blow job...

ohh how they digress!!

and take us all down a scummy slippery slop with them...

these bastards make me feel dirtier by the day...to say i am American...

fly

[Nothing Without Hope]

17. Another blatant conflict of interest- ALICE FISHER, who has a history with

Chertoff and apparently with DeLay's defense team as well, was another of Bush's controversial recess appointments:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x41598
thread title (1/3 GD): Alice Fisher DOJ Prosecutor/ Ties to Gitmo Interrogations/Chertoff/DeLay
Comment/excerpt: “Alice S. Fisher was appointed (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050831-5.html) by President George W. Bush in a recess appointment August 31, 2005, as Assistant Attorney General to head the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice. Fisher was nominated March 29, 2005, and her nomination was sent to the Senate April 4, 2005. Her nomination was stalled over interrogation tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility. … She also been a long-time protégé of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff," Vermont Senator Patrick J. Leahy said …. Leahy also expressed concerns about Fisher's "views on checks of controversial provisions of the Patriot Act and her opposition to the Act’s sunset provision; her participation in meetings in which the FBI expressed its disagreement with harsh interrogation methods practiced by the military toward detainees held at Guantanamo, and her ideas about appropriate safeguards for the treatment of enemy combatants." Leahy was also concerned about "reports that she has had ties to Congressman Tom DeLay’s defense team" and "also to know what steps she to take to avoid a conflict of interest in the Department’s investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and possibly Mr. DeLay."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x46329
thread title (1/4 GD): I find this very interesting and disturbing
Comment/excerpt: Another thread on Alice Fisher and the massive conflict of interest

This person now heads the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice. All one big happy crime family.

This outrageous appointment of Alice Fisher also has very serious implications for conflict of interest in the Fitzgerald investigation.

[PhilipShore]

19. Ironically that is good news...

because if the Dems did not have a good reason to argue -- conflict of interest –- between the Justice Department and the Repukes as being the reason they need a special prosecutor, they do now, with Delay being indicted -- and with his possible connections to Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

I am not a lawyer; any lawyers know if this is possible counter argument to Bush?

[maddezmom]

20. oh boy, what a perfect job for Tom

:sarcasm:

[barbtries]

22. absolutely

sickening

[foreverdem]

24. Unbelievable

Nothing stops them. They'd get appointments like this in while serving jail time, as if they would ever serve a day. How can nothing ever touch them? How is this allowed to happen? Will this country ever be able to get rid of the stench of these people?

This admin has been in office for 6 years now, but it feels as if they've been in power for about 25 years.

[0007]

25. Gee, I think that's a bad move when ya got good folks

sitting around doing nothing. People like, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano

[Vinca]

26. I'm picking my jaw up off the keyboard. Unfreakingbelieveable. nt

[BushOut06]

27. Isn't that kind of like Michael Jackson overseeing DCF?

Divsion of Children and Families here in Florida.

[yellowdogmi]

28. Once again I am left speechless.

Will it really take a armed revoloution to stop this madness? If I didn't have relatives and friends that belonged to the repukes I would probably start stopping them on the street and shake them to their senses. :banghead: