Stand By Congressman Tom DeLay
By Gary Aldrich (04/25/05)
Whenever one of our conservative friends in congressional leadership becomes interesting to the Liberals in Congress and the media, I pay attention. That’s because I was witness to the destruction of so many in Washington who were considered a threat to the Liberal agenda. My education in political nastiness began in 1985 when I was told to report to the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington field office.
There, I learned that the Reagan administration was demanding that the FBI straighten out its background investigation process. I was to be part of a special management detail at FBI Headquarters assembled to make sure no future FBI cases missed “key” evidence of possible wrongdoing. This was in the wake of the Raymond Donavan fiasco.
Donavan was slated to become Reagan’s labor secretary, but his nomination was derailed in the Senate when allegations of wrongdoing surfaced. A full field FBI investigation was launched but no credible evidence was ever found. Nevertheless, the Liberals and the mainstream media made mincemeat of that fine man’s reputation. Later exonerated, Mr. Donovan quipped, “Where do I go to get my reputation back?”
As I settled into my new career which eventually took me to the White House, I watched as conservative after conservative was flogged on mere suggestions, often made by "anonymous sources", that they might be involved in something unethical or even illegal.
Once alleged, no matter how flimsy the evidence – if there actually was any evidence – each individual received the full force and fury of the Liberal thrashing machine. Oliver North, Judge Robert Bork, and Judge Clarence Thomas were just a few victims of this process who come to mind. Now it’s Tom DeLay’s turn.
While working in the Clinton White House, real ethical problems were standard operating procedure, real scandals popped like popping corn, and eventually the president was impeached. Before his death, Vincent Foster, President Clinton’s Deputy Council whined to himself in notes later found, that in Washington, the destruction of a person's career was a “Blood Sport.” One sympathetic journalist even wrote a book by that title. Liberals complained that focus on the Clinton Administrations’ wrongdoing was somehow unfair and the tool they used as the basis of that claim was the concept of "equivalence".
This is how it works: If a conservative is caught breaking the speed limit, while a married Liberal man is driving drunk with his girlfriend in the car, runs off a bridge killing her – and then he runs away and hides, then lies about the entire matter - well you see, it’s the same thing. Both violated traffic laws, so there!
There’s a feeding frenzy in Washington over some actions by friends of Congressman Tom DeLay. The Liberals smell blood in the water, and DeLay is a big target. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration entered into a plea bargain with Sandy Berger after he admitted he stole the nation’s most important classified documents, took them who knows where, and destroyed them. For that, this Liberal leader in the arena of national security got to pay a measly $10,000 fine and have his security clearance yanked for a mere three years – and the Liberals and their friends in the media act as if Berger broke the speed limit.
Contrast that fact with Congressman Tom DeLay's having accepted a plane ride offered by a nonprofit organization with a hidden agenda, and DeLay is who captures the attention of an outraged national media! It does not matter if Liberals in Congress set records for the number of times they travel on some body else’s dime. As a matter of fact, try to find evidence that Liberals in this town ever pay for anything. They always live off of somebody else’s money.
You be the judge. Speeding or vehicular homicide? The theft and destruction of the nation's most sensitive documents or riding in an airplane to visit foreign leaders? Liberals will always find an equivalency when it suits them. It’s up to us to point out when they are being hypocritical in the extreme.
It’s also up to those who call themselves Conservatives and/or Republicans to stand by their leadership unless they themselves have lived lives of purity. I have not met any Mother Teresas in this town on either side of the aisle, and that would include any from Western or Northeastern states. We’ve all sinned but it is the size of the sin that matters.
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