{"id":561,"date":"2010-11-26T13:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T20:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2010-11-26T13:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T20:11:54","slug":"reaping-the-whirlwind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"REAPING THE WHIRLWIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are celebrating the felony conviction of Tom Delay.\u00a0 But this verdict may ultimately have more negative impact on Democrats than they expect.\u00a0 It is important to understand what Tom Delay did to put this in perspective.\u00a0 \u00a0In Texas, corporate business is prohibited from donating to specific candidates.\u00a0 So, Delay collected funds from corporate business owners for his political pact.\u00a0 He made a donation to the Republican National Committee.\u00a0 The Republican National Committee donated money to Republican candidates that Delay supported.\u00a0 This really made Democrats mad, primarily because Delay was extremely successful in getting Republicans elected to the Texas legislature.\u00a0 In fact, one suspects that the jury was largely democratic, because during the trial prosecutors constantly accused Delay of manipulating the redistricting to get Republicans elected.\u00a0 That gave Republicans control of re-districting and helped increase the Republican majority in congress.\u00a0 The major crime that Tom Delay committed, in the eyes of the prosecutor, was getting Republicans elected.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The problem for Democrats is that they have done the exact same thing, only worse, all over the country.\u00a0 Tom Delay is hardly the only one to move some funds around.\u00a0 There have been reports of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama receiving contributions from overseas sources and transferring those funds to legitimate sources.\u00a0 If these reports are true, Delay may look like an amateur compared to the fat cat Democratic machine.\u00a0 If tracking the source of contributions is going to result in felony convictions that I would guess a lot of high ranking Democrats should be more than a little nervous.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703678404575636942232850932.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703678404575636942232850932.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0There has been a long history of prosecutors gaining recognition by taking on high profile cases.\u00a0 That is how Rudi Giuliani built his resume.\u00a0 There are prosecutors all over the country who have been watching this case with great interest.\u00a0 Right now Democrats are thrilled that Delay has a felony conviction.\u00a0 But in the end, they could reap the whirlwind if prosecutors start investigation similar political gimmicks by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are celebrating the felony conviction of Tom Delay.\u00a0 But this verdict may ultimately have more negative impact on Democrats than they expect.\u00a0 It is important to understand what Tom Delay did to put this in perspective.\u00a0 \u00a0In Texas, corporate &hellip; 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