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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, October 21, 2004

A banner day for Tom DeLay

First, the "federal government" himself gets subpoenaed to testify in a civil lawsuit involving his role in using federal funds to track down local Senators.

Now a PAC that helped create his Republican majority had it's accounts frozen today:
A state district judge froze the corporate accounts of the Associated Republicans of Texas just two weeks before the Nov. 2 election.

State District Judge Paul Davis Jr. Wednesday ordered the political action committee to stop paying its overhead through corporate fundraising until after a Nov. 3 hearing on whether it should be raising and spending corporate funds at all, the Austin American-Statesman reported Thursday.

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