{"id":1290,"date":"2005-03-28T13:17:29","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T17:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2009-07-14T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T00:25:29","slug":"wall-street-journal-smacks-down-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal Smacks Down DeLay&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TomDelay.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">When even the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> leaves the reservation to call out one of its own, you know there is trouble afoot&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8230;Mr. DeLay, who rode to power in 1994 on a wave of revulsion at the everyday ways of big government, has become the living exemplar of some of its worst habits.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhether Mr. DeLay violated the small print of House Ethics or campaign-finance rules is thus largely beside the point. His real fault lies in betraying the broader set of principles that brought him into office, and which, if he continues as before, sooner or later will sweep him out.<\/div>\n<p>Jesse at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dccc.org\/mt\/archives\/002474.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stakeholder has more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heard Franken mention this morning that the only problem with DeLay&#8217;s potentially upcoming fall from his many self-inflicted wounds, is that he&#8217;ll be removed too quickly to take down the entire Republican leadership with him! Oh, well. There&#8217;s always more Republican Tom&#8217;s where that one came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When even the Wall Street Journal leaves the reservation to call out one of its own, you know there is trouble afoot&#8230; &#8230;Mr. DeLay, who rode to power in 1994 on a wave of revulsion at the everyday ways of big government, has become the living exemplar of some of its worst habits. &#8230; Whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,426],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tom-delay","category-wall-street-journal","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}