DeLays troubles are the Democrats' politics
By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Democrats
RedState.org
Just as it is not about John Bolton and it is not about the ideology of ten filibustered judicial nominees, Tom DeLay's problems have little to do with DeLay himself. (Though he often makes of himself a huge target.)
From House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, at a news conference Thursday rejecting the GOP offer to allow a subcommittee investigation of Tom DeLay provided the Dems stop whining about the rules of the Ethics Committee:
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The fact is that no matter whatever Mr. DeLay's problems are, they are almost minor compared to the abuse of power of the Republicans in terms of the ethics process that is a bigger issue than Mr. DeLay."
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The attacks on DeLay are political, an attempt to damage the House Republican Caucus by offing their leader.
On FOX News Sunday, Pelosi's whip, Steny Hoyer of Maryland, complained:
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What the issue here is the abuse of power. And it's not just Tom DeLay. Very frankly, with all due respect to my very good friend, Roy Blunt, it's Republican abuse of power.
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Host Chris Wallace tried to steer Hoyer back to DeLay, and the Marylander admitted that it is "going to have to be determined" if Tom DeLay had actually done anything wrong. Steering away from DeLay again at the drop of a hat, he immediately returned his attack to the House GOP.
On Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC, host Tim Russert quoted Barney Frank from USA Today:
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MR. RUSSERT: Democrats seem to be rejoicing on this. In fact, here's a quote in USA Today. Quoting one Barney Frank: "Democrats think they can make DeLay an issue that costs Republican seats in next year's elections. `Democrats have gone from being frustrated that people weren't paying enough attention to DeLay to being afraid he's going be thrown out too soon.'"
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DeLay an issue for Dems in the 2006 elections? This isn't about DeLay; it's about the 2006 elections.
To be fair, Congressman Frank had a response for Russert:
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Yeah, this is a very, very different issue. As I said, this is not a case of just peccadillos. We're not talking about travel only, about, you know, the bed was too soft or the golf was too frequent. We're talking about a whole approach to public policy, and we think that this illustrates, this very distorted approach to public policy that we've seen.
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I'm somewhat nonplussed.
John Bolton's problems are about Democratic politics. The Democrat filibusters of carefully chosen judicial nominees is about Democratic politics. The treatment of Tom DeLay's problems is about Democratic politics.
The United States is not about Democratic politics. For the sake of the politiy and the good of our country, I hope these people can get over themselves.
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