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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (67930)	10/5/2005 12:44:05 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bill Clinton Just Won't Go Away ----

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (67930)	10/5/2005 1:18:30 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 81568

Desperate Ronnie The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ \| 10-05-05 \| Editorial Prosecutory abuse is nothing new. And Ronnie Earle is advancing the art form. Mr. Earle is the Travis County, Texas, district attorney who got a grand jury, on its last day, to last week hand up a conspiracy indictment against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for alleged state campaign law violations. And just for posterity, don't you know, Earle invited a film crew to document his attempted conservative scragging. The conspiracy charge is the last refuge of prosecuting scoundrels who, having repeatedly pulled up a dry bucket from the well, need something -- anything, pu-LEEZ -- to prevent their own political embarrassment. But a funny thing happened on the way to Mr. DeLay's grand jury lynching -- Ronnie Earle screwed up. In his ex post hasto, Earle was trying to charge DeLay ex post facto: Under Texas law, the conspiracy charge wasn't applicable... Snip Have no fear, Ronnie Earle went to a new well with a new bucket. On its very first day a brand-new grand jury, that likely didn't know where the bathrooms were, handed up a new indictment. It's basically the same charge but under the bumbershoot of "money laundering." One has to wonder how such frosh grand jurors could so quickly offer this indictment. Of course, all things are possible with a prosecutor with stars in his eyes and revenge in his heart. © 2004 by The Tribune-Review Publishing Co.