From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
news:op.sy572cpkeipai0{at}news.barkto.com...
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:40:38 -0400, John Cuccia 
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:03:07 -0400, "Gary Wiltshire"

>> wrote:
>>
>>> note that Delay is out of his post because Republican's in
>>> Congress have such a rule about indicted officeholders.  The shameless
>>> Dems don't.
>>
>> Note too that 63 House Republicans were shameless enough to vote for
>> (http://www.pcactionfund.org/votecount/dr.htm) the Delay Rule before
>> they voted against it.
>>
>> As you may or may not recall, the House Republican Conference voted to
>> rescind the rule requiring indicted members of the leadership to step
>> down.   Public outrage then caused them to  reverse themselves again.
>
> There was still a majority of House Republicans who voted for it or it
> wouldn't be in effect.
>
> As to wanting to remove it that may have a lot to do with feeling like
> suckers because the Dems did nothing remotely comparable.
>
> --
> Gary Wiltshire

Or it may have everything to do with their rule biting them. Remember they
adopted the rule in the early 90's. Lots of time to revoke it since the
Dems did nothing similar. They only started pushing to revoke it when it
would bite their strongman.

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