Author: jpol

There certainly hasn’t been much written about it in the mainstream media, but an article posted on Military.Com’s web site suggests that the Bush Administration is charging full speed ahead with plans to dismantle the Veteran’s administration.

“What VA?” the article quotes a chuckling Senator’s aide as saying in a conversation that suggested that the VA is being dismantled. “By the time this administration is done there won’t be a VA.”

So why would the Bush administration want to dismantle the VA? The article suggests three reasons:

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The spin coming from Tom Delay and his allies suggests that his indictment is a hollow sham. The reality is that the case is strong, and “the Hammer” may end up in the Slammer.

Delay had the motive: He wanted a Republican takeover of the state legislature so he could engineer a GOP-friendly re-districting, replacing several Democratic Congressmen with Republicans.

Below:    A defendant-friendly judge has ruled in a civil suit that the treasurer of TRMPAC, Delay’s state PAC, had violated the law by failing to disclose more than $600,000 in corporate money.

Delay had the opportunity: He had the ability to collect and launder corporate contributions (illegal under Texas law) through his national PAC into his state PAC for redistribution to GOP candidates for the state legislature.

And District Attorney Ronnie Earle has the evidence: Thanks largely to an under-reported civil suit won by Democratic lawmakers who lost their seats to the now well-financed Republicans. Their suit led to a judicial finding that Delay’s scheme violated state law, and it uncovered documents directly implicating Delay in the conspiracy.

Delay charged that “this is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history,” and he called Earle an “unabashed partisan zealot.” He added, “Let me be very, very clear. I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House.”

Despite the bravado, a civil case litigated earlier this year in Texas must worry Delay and his supporters. Although Delay was not a defendant, the guilty verdict and the found documents portend a less than happy outcome.

BELOW . . . Has someone turned?

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The media seems fixated upon the notion that the public just can’t handle more than one story at a time, so if it isn’t runaway brides it is hurricanes. What? Hundreds of thousands marched against the war in...

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I was able to meet up with Susan T. in Washington, D.C. yesterday. We know each other only through a Yahoo group we both belong to, but despite the large crowd we found each other via cell phone. Susan traveled with a group, all...

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[From the diaries by susanhu. Can October come soon enough?]"Saint Judith Miller" – The Latest NY Times Editorial RantIt seems hardly a week goes by without a New York Times editorial lamenting the ongoing...

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