Tom DeLay Money-Laundering Case Going to Trial in Texas

You know it is not easy to become a multimillionaire while you are a member of Congress. The job doesn't pay that well. You would have to take bribes and steal money from campaign funds, etc. to get that much money. Are you suggesting that Tom DeLay would do something as terrible as that? He would slit his wrists before he would steal a penny. Just look at him dance on TV. Do you think for a second that he would steal?

What Layne said. If he's going to trial in Texas, the fix is in - I'm sure he'll be acquited.

I only know 2 kinds of Politicians the Caught and the UnCaught they are all crooks some sre just better at it. Only thing you can't catch doing, you will never catch them being honest

Hey sepcu2008. I guess it does not matter that this man as house leader created his own facts to get his desired results. Not only did he manipulate facts to redraw congressional boundaries thereby creating bizzare republican districts but he also took money from businesses while pretending not to.THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT.

Delay became a multi-millionaire while serving in Congress. I'm sure it was all done honestly.

this whole thing should have been avoided. However when you have liberal socialists for district attorneys always trying to make points with the public as is the case in Austin, Texas what do you expect. To me the law should be about the law.......not politics!

Delay is about as innocent as Blago. Is he "one step closer to jail ?" DeLay has no scruples , but he does have arrogance.

As long as so many people think that all of the crooks are in the other guy's party we are always going to have crooks in Washington.

Sadly, our politician from both parties realize that it only takes one partisan juror to find them not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt (which they immediately proclaim means innocent) to get them off the hook. I don't know the details of the the charges against DeLay, but I am familiar with the details of the evidence against two Democrats, a coroner from Pittsburgh and a Governor from Illinois, who both managed to avoid getting their just punishment because somebody on their juries chose to ignore mountains of evidence that pointed at their guilt. I'm not being partisan here, these travesties of justice work both ways, and not only when it comes to politics, as certain Heisman trophy winner knows all too well. Our legal system is broken, and nobody who can do anything about it seems to be willing to admit that there's , let alone to try to find a solution to that problem. problem.

Only someone guilty would demand a trial. Someone not guilty would see how it all plays out. Why isn't he being tried where the crime mostly took place? Or would his top notched attorneys think the nations capital too prejudicial?