[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6180-6181]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




REPUBLICAN-LEANING ``PLAIN DEALER'' EDITORIAL SEEKS BREATH OF INTEGRITY

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Madam Speaker, from April 8, a Plain Dealer 
editorial from a Cleveland Republican-leaning newspapers writes: ``Tom 
DeLay, the House Majority Leader, can fashion what to him is a 
reasonable explanation for each of the ethics questions increasingly 
being raised against him.
  ```It's a witch hunt by a Democrat out to destroy him,' DeLay 
responds.'' This is the Plain Dealer writing.
  ``To each of these and far too many more defensive responses, his 
faithful defenders, especially those who have bathed regularly under 
the campaign money spigot he controls, shout a loud `amen' and accuse 
the Times and Post of mounting a liberal smear campaign.
  ``But the ranks of DeLay's defenders shrink almost daily, as they 
should.''
  The Republican-leaning Plain Dealer then asks: ``Is the Sugarland 
sugar daddy the best their party has to offer the Nation in this key 
leadership post? Can they not find a fellow Republican wise enough to 
avoid, in terms he might understand, the very appearance of evil? Can't 
someone open a window and let in a breath of integrity to blow the 
growing stench out of the people's Chamber?''

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  Words from a newspaper that endorsed George Bush in 2000, the 
Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 8.

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