>One could go back & forth with this stuff, but dont forget Tom Delay and GOP congress critters after Delay was indicted. Not sure what became of William "Freezer Money" Jefferson, but there were many calls by Dem-leaning websites to punt the guy. Cant say i am familiar w/ how the right-leaning blogs/websites reacted to Delay's doings. Apparently Pelosi requested that Jefferson resign from ways/means committee, and was later removed from that committe. But changing house rules versus requesting someone leave committees pending legal action appear to be very different reactions.
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54572-2004Nov16.html
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>GOP Pushes Rule Change to Protect DeLay's Post
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I believe this is the same case that involves a Texas Democratic prosecutor who shopped the case before several grand juries until he was able to get an indictment. We have a saying here in Memphis, at the District Attorney's officce (where I worked for 6 years). "We could indict a brick." Indictments like Delay's and the Duke case leave a bad taste in my mouth.