"Do not resuscitate."

Let's tally up the scores, ok?

Bush - Signed law allowing hospitals to pull the plug on non-payers.
Frist - Believes brain damaged babies can be used for organ harvesting.
DeLay - Pulled plug on own father.

Are we missing anyone here? Seems like an 0-3 rout on the wingnuts and we didn't even have to enter the game.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/10/delay.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Private GOP tensions over Tom DeLay's ethics controversy spilled into public Sunday, as a Senate leader called on DeLay to explain his actions and one House Republican demanded the majority leader's resignation.

"Tom's conduct is hurting the Republican Party, is hurting this Republican majority and it is hurting any Republican who is up for re-election," Rep. Chris Shays, a Connecticut Republican, told The Associated Press in an interview, calling for DeLay to step down as majority leader.

DeLay, a Texas Republican who was admonished by the House ethics committee last year, has been dogged in recent months by new reports about his overseas travel funded by special interests, campaign payments to family members and connections to a lobbyist who is under criminal investigation.

A moderate Republican from Connecticut who has battled with his party's leadership on a number of issues, Shays said efforts by the House GOP members to change ethics rules to protect DeLay only make the party look bad.

"My party is going to have to decide whether we are going to continue to make excuses for Tom to the detriment of Republicans seeking election," Shays said.

Rick Santorum, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said Sunday that DeLay needs to explain his conduct to the public.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/041105...

Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is drawing heat from some fellow Republicans who say his continuing ethics problems are harming the GOP.

"Tom's conduct is hurting the Republican Party, is hurting this Republican majority and it is hurting any Republican who is up for re-election," Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., told The Associated Press on Sunday. He called on DeLay to resign from his leadership position.

Mr. Abramoff, known to envious competitors as "Casino Jack" because of his multimillion-dollar lobbying fees from the gambling operations of American Indians, wrote to a Texas tribe in June 2002 to say that a member of Congress had "asked if we could help (as in cover) a Scotland golf trip for him and some staff" that summer. "The trip will be quite expensive," Mr. Abramoff said in the e-mail message, estimating that the bills "would be around $100K or more." He added that in 2000, "We did this for another member - you know who."

Mr. Abramoff did not explain why the tribe should pay for the lavish trip, nor did he identify the congressmen by name. But a tribe spokesman has since testified to Congress that the 2002 trip was organized for Representative Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Administration Committee, and that "you know who" was a much more powerful Republican, Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader and old friend of Mr. Abramoff's. Both lawmakers have said they believed that the trips complied with House travel rules.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/politics/11lobby.html?hp&ex=1113278400...

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=18870

They are playing with fire, stoking the passions of fringe lunatics who might take it upon themselves to commit murder in the name of the "culture of life" these leaders supposedly revere. While the First Amendment, happily, gives men like Cornyn and DeLay the legal protection to say what they like, they have a moral obligation, as national leaders, to avoid that sort of inflammatory rhetoric.

Days after Cornyn's reckless remarks, federal judges sent a letter to Congress seeking more funds for security. In Atlanta, too, judges have requested beefed-up security.

Florida judge George Greer, the principal judge in the Terri Schiavo case, has long traveled with bodyguards because of death threats. Just last week, a California woman was arrested for threatening to kill Michael Schiavo and Greer.

Historic parallels as DeLay's woes deepen

http://abcnews.go.com/International/CSM/story?id=660951

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/04/edi05040.html

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/opinion/index.php?ntid=35595&ntpid=1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/crisis/05/006_ep.html