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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 11/02/2010 : 03:11:42
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Tom DeLay, disgraced ex-Representative, political thug and and human cockroach is, at last, seeing the inside of a courtroom. He claims innocence. It's probably a safe bet that he's lying again.
Tom DeLay, GOP’s ex-House majority leader, goes on trial in Texas
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, November 1st, 2010 -- 7:01 pm
Tom DeLay, the Republican leader known as "The Hammer" for his brass knuckles style, stood before a jury Monday and declared he never crossed the line into criminally dirty politics.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am not guilty," the former US House majority leader said after an indictment was read accusing DeLay of money laundering and conspiracy.
The trial began a day before US voters head to the polls for mid-term elections in which Republicans are expected to retake the House of Representatives and cut deeply into the Democrats' Senate majority.
At the heart of the case is one transaction: DeLay's political committee in Texas sent 190,000 dollars of corporate donations to the Republican National Committee, which in turn donated the same amount to seven Texas candidates supported by DeLay.
Texas law prohibits corporate giving to candidates.
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The pigfucker will probably get off with a stern talking-to, if found guilty -- innocent until proven, you know. Anyhow, he's at least suffering a little inconvenience and lawyer's fees.
Wait, did I just call him a cockroach? I take it back; no cockroach deserves such an insult.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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At last!
