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February 24, 2005

Defeat DeLay Daily

You know hip-waders will no longer suffice when even Newt Gingrich is appalled at Tom DeLay's ethical lapses.

Yesterday's Houston Chronicle ran a column by Cragg Hines entitled, If Newt is warning DeLay about ethics, times are bad

Talking with Newt Gingrich about ethics may be like talking to Willie Sutton about bank robbery. You listen carefully to such an experienced practitioner, but you wonder: If he's so smart why did he get caught so often.

No matter. Gingrich is currently as cautionary, if not as vocally indignant, about the House Republican leadership's slide into the muck as he is about debating "patriotic immigration" or "the myth of judicial supremacy."

As usual, Gingrich is taking the long view, not something that current House leaders such as Tom DeLay are regularly accused of doing.

Well, of course, House Republicans are not being careful. They are profligately displaying their power, including the power to abuse the House's tenuous-at-best policing of itself.

Gingrich made clear he thinks DeLay is on thin ice.

"The Republican Party's majority comes from the Perot voters who want real reform," Gingrich said. "Anything which weakens that is difficult."

Had enough of DeLay's capers? Wanna do something about it?

Richard Morrison was unable to take away Tom DeLay's Congressional seat this last November. But he did manage to do something that nobody has managed in a very long time. He forced DeLay to actually got to Texas to defend his seat.

Morrison is running a new campaign called Defeat DeLay Daily. The idea is for concerned Americans to donate a small amount every month to Morrison's effort to hold DeLay accountable to the same laws DeLay wants the rest of us held accountable to.

From an email I received from the Morrison campaign:

am asking each one of you to give at least $10 per month. $10 per month is 33 cents a day; 33 cents a day to beat Tom DeLay. Please make this commitment to democracy. You can't afford not to

Donate today!

Posted by Kevin at February 24, 2005 01:00 PM