THE PARTY OF DIRTY TRICKS COMPLAINING THEY ARE VICTIMS... OF DIRTY TRICKS

The National Review Online, an extreme right-wing partisan website claims that residents of 37 districts have gotten calls from an organization calling itself "We The People," informing people that the Republican congressman in the district has taken tainted money from DeLay and refuses to return it. The Repugs are blaming the Democratic Party which claims to have never heard of the group and to have no part in this. Bill Burton of the DCCC said his party had nothing to do with it. "I flatly deny that we are in any way connected with whomever is making these calls," he said. One of the half dozen most corrupt people in Congress, Ohio's Bob Ney, is crying the loudest. Ney, who faces possible indictment for his criminal involvement with Abramoff (not just for Abramoff's and DeLay's defrauding the Indian tribes-- which Ney was definately involved with-- but possibly for involvement in the gangland style murder of Abramoff's former business associate) was squealing like a stuck pig when he found out residents of his district are being telephoned about the thousands of dollars DeLay has paid him. Ney's flake, shady character named Brian Walsh made baseless claims that "this is part of an ongoing effort by the Democrats in Washington to use these shadowy outside groups to spread negative attacks."

DeLay also has a flack that claims it's a Democratic Party effort to paint a bad picture of himself. One Democrat remarked that DeLay "doesn't need anyone from our party to help him paint bad pictures of himself. We're talking about the singular most corrupt politician in modern history and all his activties are coming unwound in full public view. He's done all his own painting."