THE PLOT AGAINST TOM DeLAY: What Did Shadow Party Operative Robert Borosage Know, and When Did He Know It?
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by Richard Poe Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:55 pm Eastern Time |
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We all know that Tom DeLay is being framed (and, if you don’t know, you can start your remedial education by reading this post by NRO blogger Stephen Spruiell and this one by Captain Ed; you can also bone up on crooked prosecutor Ronnie Earle in this Wall Street Journal editorial).
What we need to find out now is how the Democrats managed to pull it off and who did the dirty work behind the scenes. Framing a national political leader is risky business. A lot of bribes, threats and hush money need to be spread around. May I suggest that we begin our investigation with one Robert L. Borosage, who is co-director of something called the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF)?
In the November 29, 2004 issue of the Marxist journal The Nation, Borosage co-wrote an article with Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel. They wrote:
“[P]rogressives drive this party now – we provide the energy, the organizers, the ground forces, the ideas, and much of the money. We should organize the opposition [against Republicans]. Progressives should mount a powerful assault on Republican boss Tom DeLay.“
A hard-left militant during the ’60s and a graduate of Yale Law School – where he served as a political mentor to young Hillary Rodham – Borosage subsequently headed the National Lawyers Guild, a radical organization that began in the 1930s as a Soviet front, operated in conjunction with the Communist Party and to this day basks comfortably and proudly in its Communist heritage. Later Borosage headed the Institute for Policy Studies, a far left Washington think tank that has enjoyed close and unsavory involvements with Soviet and Cuban intelligence operations.
Borosage currently serves as co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) – a leftwing activist group founded in 1996, whose list of advisors includes Sixties radical Tom Hayden; former SDS president Todd Gitlin; former SDS radical Heather Booth; NOW founder Betty Friedan; Jesse Jackson and social scientist and activist Frances Fox Piven, a founder of the “welfare rights movement” of the late ’60s and early ’70s whose strategy of deliberately overloading welfare rolls to break the “system” actually bankrupted New York City.
When Borosage wrote in November of last year that “progressives” needed to “mount a powerful assault on Republican boss Tom DeLay,” was he just blowing hot air or was he revealing knowledge of an actual plan, formulated by people wealthy and powerful enough to pull it off?
For more background on this question, see my FrontPage article of April 11, 2005, “Soros Shadow Party Stalks DeLay.”
by Richard Poe
September 29, 2005 02:55 PM ET
Cross-posted from MoonbatCentral.com 09.29.05
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Check out what others are saying about this post...Of course this is a framing by the left. It’s so transparent I doubt even most Dems would argue that point.
We did get some good news today, though. No, I didn’t save any money on my car insurance, but John Roberts was confirmed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court!
I wrote about the liberals who voted against his nomination in my blog. See: Roberts Confirmed.
-MZ
KEEE-hrist! Tom DeLay, being framed?
The last story I heard that was so ridiculous was the ‘framing’ of Marion Berry.
Tom DeLay went on a lobbyist-paid junket to play golf at St. Andrews. It’s called a bribe, in the real world. No excuses for that one. None.
MZ:
This might surprise you, but I actually think it likely that Roberts will make a first-rate CJ. He acknowledged the right to privacy, distinguishing himself from Robert Bork, and has establish quite a good record on the proper respect for stare decisis.
If Roe comes up again, and he told the truth, he will vote to uphold it.
Are you actually suggesting that there’s… a vast left-wing conspiracy?
The prosecutor has gone against far more Dems than Republicans. Unless you’re proposing he’s a hired gun of some sort.
Someone, and I forget where, forgive the hearsay, mentioned that this was a lowly DA, not a big-gun packing, prestigious federal prosecutor… well, as the conspiracy charge in question involves arranging for corporate campaign finance. This is perfectly fine under federal law (I wonder who wrote it that way…), but in direct violation of a Texas law; the feds couldn’t pick this case up if they wanted to — it’s not their jurisdiction. A local DA is accountable to his constituents, not a White House partisan appointee… unlike the AG from Guam with more than 12 years at his post.
This just means the lack of federal prosecution is hardly an exhoneration (not without a pardon, like the one given to 14 white collar criminals who just got their records whitewashed by our president).
That being said, a conspiracy indictment is considered fluff because it’s so general: it basically refers foreknowledge/collaboration of criminal activity by others rather than setting out a bunch of independently horrible elements. It’s not always neccessary for the crime to be successful for produce a proper and actionable criminal conspiracy. (Think hiring a hitman who misses his target.)
It should also be noted that real, honest-to-goodness ignorance is not a defense if you pulled the wool over your own eyes; it’s called “willful blindness.” It’s actually worse, because intentionally creating a ornate procedure to manufacture plausable deniability is in itself evidence of knowledge that the activity was criminal.
Delay wasn’t the victim of a vast left wing conspiracy. He’s was your typical entrenched Washington politician, betting that he could outsmart a system that he proved so adept at restructuring… but this time he lost. Even if he weasels out of it (this DA doesn’t have a stellar conviction record in his official corruption cases) the light’s been turned on and revealed a roaches nest.
But then again… at least Delay hasn’t paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the people who murdered a jilted business partner… that’s a different scandal for a different day.
Going on a junket is not equal to a bribe. That’s assinine.
No-one cares what you think about Roberts, Dissenter, nor your spin on him. I hate to break it to you, but when you lie about your politics over and over again, no-one believes you. Especially when you lay claim to a movement of whose politics you have no idea.
*shaking head* And the guy goes on as though he thinks that others care. Delusion city!
Jeez, now I’m depressed. I was happy with the Robert’s confirmation until I read DISSENTER, above, actually liking him! If a guy like Dissenter likes him, there’s GOT to be something wrong with him.
InRussetShadows writes (about Dissenter): “[N]o-one believes you. Especially when you lay claim to a movement of whose politics you have no idea.”
I haven’t followed Dissenter’s antics closely enough to know what this means. To what movement does he claim allegiance?
Richard Poe asks: “To what movement does he claim allegiance?”
bowel.
It was those damn Communists at Sear and Roebuck, after ol’ Tom shook them down for ten grand or so. Damn ingrates–after all the water DeLay had carried for them over the years.
Richard, how have you missed him! He’s the designated antagonist who makes every issue into a bash-Bush rant. I kind of like him because he is not profane, seems intelligent, and makes things more interesting with his ever present “bad-cop” role.
J.Bargholz hates him like poison and goes off on him on a regular basis. Makes for good entertainment.
That said, he claims to be a Goldwater Republican who grew disillusioned by the “neo-conservative” revolution in the republican party. This seems very dubious, though, as he has never expressed an opinion here that was on the right side of the ledger.
He is probably an attorney, because in previous threads where constitutional issues came up he sounded very lawyer-speak.
How’s that, Dissenter?
-MZ
Mr. Poe –
Dissenter claims to be a Goldwater-style conservative. However, in one his/her first appearances on Moonbat Central, he totally overlooked a key tenet of the general conservative movement – that of less central government and more control/authority in the hands of local (e.g. state and municipal). This appearance and bogus claim was made at the time of the well-coordinated leftist campaign of obfuscation and blame shifting vis-a-vis Hurricane Katrina. Dissenter claimed that GW should have/could have moved right in and taken control of the situation immediately, rather than the conservative (and GW) stance of hands off until and unless requested by local governements.
Dissenter is a sharp knife – but no way a conservative.
D also resorts to typical leftist blog tactics such as cheesy ad hominem attacks upon any/all bloggers here (except when D’s allies show up to rally around the leftists’ cause).
Is this an accurate assessment, Dissension?
he has stated over at fpm that he is a lawyer and lives in colorado looking out his window at wildlife – which means he could be in a maximum security prison somewhere in colorado.
…yes -what MZ and JB say/think
MZ – I almsot transposed typo for “hissed” -in thinking of the entity known as Dissension.
By the way – expect to see D implement another typical tactic of the leftist paid blogger – bandwidth hogging. Not that I wish to imagine this person in any form for any moment of time – but D is probablly gathering his prewritten responses – for re-visit here.
Sharikov, I don’t think so. He hasn’t done too much cut and paste in the past.
Man, I feel like a Dissenter apologist. What’s wrong with me?
-MZ
MZ – you are most likely correct.
D is then an extraodinarily fast typer…
go to:
http:www.nationalreview.com/york/york200509291814.asp
if you want to see why delay may be the object of a set up.
Sharikov (re: #11):
With respect, you are misconstruing my position. When the states willingly transfer power to the feds, the obligations transfer, as well. As this applies to Katrina, the affected states voluntarily took advantage of a federal program, thereby putting Bush and FEMA in the center seat. A Goldwater Republican won’t question the legality of such transfers of power, but he will routinely question their wisdom.
As for the ad homs and personal attacks, the rabid rightards opened the game; I generally try to return them more subtly. I would much rather avoid them altogether, but that really isn’t the culture of cyberspace.
Am I a leftist? Not by a long shot. However, to the modern neo-cons and religious fanatics in the Republican Party, I can be mistaken for one, due to my laissez-faire attitude toward individual conduct and broad reading of the Bill of Rights.
My attitude toward government corruption — as is the case with Tom DeLay, I have zero tolerance for it — should be squarely on the right side of the ledger. Er, whatever happened to “Love your country, but fear your government?”
If I am no longer a Republican, it is because, as Ronald Reagan whimsically put it, “the Party left me.” Think of me as being somewhat along the lines of a Christie Todd Whitman. “It’s my Party, too.”
That’s going to get some of you going, because you don’t quite know what to do with me. 😉
The commie’s keep working hard to take the country over, but they keep forgetting one important thing. They haven’t gotten our guns. And they aren’t gonna get ’em either. Isn’t this typical though of how desperate and dirty these misfits are. DeLay beats the crap out of them politically and they whine and bawl and stomp their feet, they can’t beat him in the political arena so they get some chump to ambush him in the alley. The same scenario plays out with Mr Rove. The only thing they’re competitive at is back stabbing.
Dissenter writes: “KEEE-hrist! Tom DeLay, being framed? … Tom DeLay went on a lobbyist-paid junket to play golf at St. Andrews. It’s called a bribe, in the real world. No excuses for that one. None.”
Dear Dissenter:
Please explain how the above-referenced golfing junket relates to Mr. Earle’s indictment of Congressman DeLay.
Dissenter writes: “Think of me as being somewhat along the lines of a Christie Todd Whitman. `It’s my Party, too.’ That’s going to get some of you going, because you don’t quite know what to do with me. ;)”
Have no fear, Dissenter. I will have no trouble at all deciding what to do with you. Indeed, I am already 99.9 percent of the way toward deciding.
Now please answer the question I put to you above. Answer honestly, succinctly and to the point, and I just might allow you to continue posting on this blog, at least for awhile.
Distorter’s name is well placed. At any given moment a board has more intelligence. You were never a republican and you never could be one. The only one here who believes that you were is you. Yes that’s right you are a LEFTIST, you’re just not smart enough to know it. The role of the Federal government and the State government in regard to FEMA or anything else is not something arbitrary that a partisan hack like you can pull out of thin air and re-define.
Let’s stay on topic, please. 😀
dear mr. poe – it is difficult to stay on subject when the adhdiss-turbed one, who obviously forgot to take his adderall today keeps entering the room with some new and uncredible item. he is the class clown and cannot stay on subject.
Holy Democratic Underground, Poe-Man!
You are, of course, at liberty to kick me off your fascist right-wing moonbat blog. It is your right, Herr Poe. But let us dispense forever with the risible notion that David Horowitz is a defender of free speech. I will consider it a badge of honor to be thrown off. 🙂
The real test of your commitment to freedom of speech is what you do when confronted with speech that makes your blood boil. And as is always the case with fascists, you have failed the test. Do be so kind as to deposit your Republican Party credentials at the door….
The relevance of DeLay’s acceptance of a bribe is in obliterating the ludicrous pretense that he is an honest man. The bona fides of that incident have been publicly admitted to, so there is little left to debate. Any suggestion that he’s an angel who is being persecuted by the Great Satan — a local D.A. who has prosecuted more Democrats than Republicans — should defy even your robust imagination.
I must have missed something…..DeLay was convicted??
Dissenter, quite frankly, I’m a little disappointed that you’ve chosen to bash this website for being intolerant to “dissent”. You have had free reign to let it rip without questions or threats for over a month now, and that is a level of patience you’ll not see at most sites. Hell, I’ve been kicked out of a few places for politely disagreeing.
Certainly you must have known that at some point you’d have to show some degree of respect to the moderator even if you flat hate his politics. I know you like to stir the pot, but it is only polite to give the moderator a degree of respect higher than you offer us commenters.
Then again, perhaps you want to be kicked off so you can brag about it to your friends who share your politics, and if that’s the case I’m sure you’ll get your wish soon.
-MZ
Dissenter via-a-vis #18
Perhaps I “misconstrued” your position – however you have kindly repeated the same one – again in your opening paragraph. So I will repeat for you what I attempted to point out to you et al then.
When you made the statement/calim the first time – circa within first few days after Katrina hit N.O. LA.
At that time I pointed out specifically that Federal government could not intervene until, unless, only upon request of State of LA -i.e. governor.
As you know -being a lawyer – Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution, Amendement 10. Powers of the States and People – including …safety, and public welfare… are not the exclusive powers of the U.S. Government … further – these are the powers of the states, or of the people.
GW may not be a quantum-mechanics physicist -nor a linguistics expert ala Chomsky – but this is pretty straight forward – and clear.
The facts are – LA governor did not call for nor relinquish her Consitutionally guaranteed authority over the State she -and only she -was/is responsible for.
Mayor Nagin even let the cat out – when days later -after the massive obfuscation campaign was in full power mode – GW paid visit to LA -invited both to AirForce One – he stated to the MsM that Governor Blanco – still refuse to allow Federal Government to enter the situation…
I am sure you will recall all of this. And all occur after your claims (you preceeded these facts with your calim – shifting blame from the State -where it did indeed still lie – and onto the Feds).
Same goes for Federalizing the National Guard (but even as a former Republican you know how this works). National Guard is strictly under control of States – i.e. governors. No orders can be acted upon -even if issued by Feds – unless State relinquishes its authority. Once again – Governor LA – did what with the her national guard authority….? Nothing. Until forced into action.
So – there’s my “misconstrual” again.
Dissenter – weak weak man very weak… “facists” – go back to history – have a look and see what B. Mussolini was up to before creating the facist movement. For more fun – compare that with the Soviets – and then – your favorite national socialists (leftist) a.h.
You are indeed a leftist – and never were anything close to conservative – let alone Republican.
By the way – what is this epithet “neo-con” you keep tossing out. Is it racist? You’re not a jihadofacist sympathizer are you?
Now the leadership and progressivism you so desire – will be found with that group – right D.?
My apologies to Mr. Poe for taking the bait and going off topic of this posting.
I will self banish myself for – at least 10 hours.
you pervert Sharikov
Publius, LMAO!!! Too funny.
Dissenter uses fascist and rightwing as synonyms.
Any actual conservative (even a paleo) knows that fascist and socialist are the real synonyms.
His “zero tolerance” for govt corruption somehow never questions the left – no matter what.
Meanwhile, he gobbles up any moonbat assertion they make as gospel and parrots it While refusing to even hear anything that contradicts them (and he accuses US of “willing blindness” lol).
“Laissez-faire” my star-spangled ass.
Just another run of the mill, self-deluded lefty from where I sit.
{212 Says:
September 29th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
Are you actually suggesting that there’s… a vast left-wing conspiracy?
The prosecutor has gone against far more Dems than Republicans. Unless you’re proposing he’s a hired gun of some sort.}
As per your charge that he is not being partisan because he has gone after more dems than republicans, is misunderstood by you in the application of politics in Texas. In Texas, for years if you wished to vote you had to do so in the dem primaries or not vote at all, there were no rep’s that were in the general election. The choices in the dems primaries were between lib dems and conservative dems. If you wish to become better informed about the situation, you will check the histories of the 11 dems he went after. They were mostly conservative dems and all were considered by him to be his enemies. So, YES, he is a partisan. A lib partisan hack that goes after his moderate and conservative enemies with the power of his office. Also you may desire to research just how many grand juries he went thru b4 one would indict Tom Delay.
Furthermore, I expect that the indictment will most likely be thrown out by the judge because it does not give the specifics of the charge. (This is necessary under state law for the indictment to be valid}
dysentery Says:
Slobber, slobber,
foam, foam, foam at the mouth.
arrrrrrrooooooooooooorrrrrrrrr!
Dissenter is merely a Puckish little mischief-maker (kind of like Andy Kaufman in his “I’m from Hollywood” professional wrestling days).
Well at least we Dissenter on record as to changing his position. As for the charges against DeLay, something’s rotten in Denmark. DeLay may have lost his way, but I seriously doubt he is guilty of conspiracy. This is just more showboating for Earle and political hay for his backers.
InRuss…I think this was a laid out strategy involving this goof, the DNC and the media. They were all ready to go, talking points (re: culture of corruption) the whole ball of wax. I have to tell you, I was really laughing when Rush played the audio montage today, because this is their modus operandi and they come off looking like school children practicing rote. It’s never worked for them, but they are so creativity starved they can’t help themselves. That it was a planned strategy is bolstered by the fact that they don’t even let “innocent until proven guilty” get in their way. I know this fact is going to resonate with the American people. It may be the one lasting impression the American people come away with on this deal.
Orchestrated indeed – and with the help of the MSM.
NBC was reporting everything they’ve been saying as if it were common wisdom today.
nanc,
when you referred to distorter’s movement as a “bowel” movement, I nearly busted a gut. I laughed my a$$ off. I guess ol’ dissy lies somewhere in between the two.
I’m still chuckling. That was the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. Who ever thought the truth could be so hilarious? You have him pegged.
nanc,
“a maximum security prison.” You’re killing me! Your bits are better than what “Comedy Central” pays for.
MZ,
regarding comment #15, Distorter cuts and pastes more than a pre-schooler on Ritalin.
What is wrong with you, my brother? I drink excessively. What caused your lapse in reason?
It has to be the Dissy amusement factor. Nothing else explains it.
P.S., I’d rather swig hemlock than read one of Dissy’s comments.
Distorter,
the state in question (Louisiana,) didn’t transfer authority to the Feds. That’s the whole point. They tried to transfer RESPONSIBILITY. After the fact.
Goldwater suggested lobbing nukes through the Kremlin windows. That’s your position, right? You’re as subtle as a fart in church.
“Are you a leftist?” No, you’re an uber leftist that rabidly opposes his own country’s interests at every opportunity. Your bastardization of the “Bill of Rights” calls for rampant socialism. You have zero tolerance for the existence of political opponents. You embrace the corruption of your political circle-jerkers.
I’m pretty sure most of us think flushing you would be a good solution for “what to do with you.”
Distorter,
my previous post was a response to your post #18. Not that it matters. I could draw you a map and you wouldn’t respond intelligently.
j.bargholz – thank you for the compliment. sometimes the fewer words used the better. the diss-enfranchised one hardly speaks to me anymore, even when i’ve cut him to the quick.
I don’t even respond to the idiot even more I just diss him like this:
47. dysentery Says:
Slobber, slobber, slobber
foam, foam, foam at the mouth
bark, bark, bark at the moon
arrrrrrrooooooooooooorrrrrrrrr!
Richard Poe wrote: “We all know that Tom DeLay is being framed…”
Dissenter responded: “KEEE-hrist! Tom DeLay, being framed? … Tom DeLay went on a lobbyist-paid junket to play golf at St. Andrews. It’s called a bribe, in the real world. No excuses for that one. None.”
Whereupon Richard Poe wrote: “Please explain how the above-referenced golfing junket relates to Mr. Earle’s indictment of Congressman DeLay.”
To which Dissenter replied: “The relevance of DeLay’s acceptance of a bribe is in obliterating the ludicrous pretense that he is an honest man. … Any suggestion that he’s an angel… should defy even your robust imagination.”
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Dissenter, your above response seems a bit evasive to me.
I did not ask whether you consider Tom DeLay to be an “angel” or an “honest man” – a judgment you are plainly unqualified to make.
The question at hand is whether or not DeLay is being framed. Since you claim to be a lawyer, I presume you know that these are two separate questions.
So let’s try this again:
Are you contending that Ron Earle indicted Tom DeLay for taking a golfing junket to St. Andrews? Yes or no.
Dissenter writes: “My attitude toward government corruption – as is the case with Tom DeLay, I have zero tolerance for it – should be squarely on the right side of the ledger.”
Please tell me in 30 words or less why, in a fair and just society, Hillary Rodham Clinton would be occupying a cell in a federal supermax prison.
As a non-partisan champion of clean government, you should be able to answer this question off the top of your head. No googling!
Dissenter writes: “You are, of course, at liberty to kick me off your fascist right-wing moonbat blog. It is your right, Herr Poe. But let us dispense forever with the risible notion that David Horowitz is a defender of free speech. I will consider it a badge of honor to be thrown off. :)”
So, on top of everything else, you’re an F.O.S. troll.* How predictable.
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* F.O.S. Troll or Freedom-of-Speech Troll: A person who treats other people’s private Web sites as de facto public spaces, demanding First Amendment protection (or the functional equivalent thereof) for anything he wishes to post. (hat tip, Mr. Beamish)
Dissenter writes: “You are, of course, at liberty to kick me off your fascist right-wing moonbat blog.
Dissenter also writes: “As for the ad homs and personal attacks, the rabid rightards opened the game; I generally try to return them more subtly.”
rightwingmac astutely observes: “Dissenter uses fascist and rightwing as synonyms.”
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Yes, I noticed that. I guess that’s how Christie Whitman Republicans talk. [sarcasm]