Soros Bankrolling "Gingriching" of Tom DeLay

The Hill has the scoop (via Newmax):

The concentrated assault on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay by Democrats and their media allies hasn't just happened - it is largely the work of a shadowy group of liberal organizations, all backed by one man: George Soros.

Billionaire George Soros has been working behind the scenes with liberal anti-Bush groups dominated by longtime Democrat activists.

According to The Hill newspaper, Republican researchers have connected Soros, members of pressure groups posing as "government watchdog groups" and loaded with Democrat activists, and top Hill Democrats in the attacks on DeLay and the House Ethics Committee.

"The research shows that members of these groups’ boards have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and political organizations and several of their staff members have previously worked for Democrats," The Hill reported, adding that they "have also accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Open Society Institute, an organization founded by Soros, who spent millions trying to defeat President Bush in last year’s election."

It's hard for me not to shrug at this. To coin an aphorism, birds fly, fish swim, sharks eat, and Democrats scandal-monger. They've been trying to recreate Watergate ever since, well, Watergate, and having failed yet again in last year's presidential campaign, now they're trying to reprise what ended up being the four-year war of attrition that finally drove Newt Gingrich from the Speakership.

And they appear sufficiently submerged in their own wishful thinking to be actually believing they'll succeed:

"The DeLay scandal is getting to the point where House Republicans just won’t be able to withstand much more,” a Democrat aide bragged to The Hill. "With every story that is written, it becomes more clear that House Republicans are risking their political futures by associating themselves with him. When literally hundreds of stories about the GOP leader’s shoddy ethics are appearing in nearly every local and regional paper across the country, you can’t blame voters for painting them all with the same brush."

Except, of course, that there isn't any "DeLay scandal." Just the usual barrage of empty, unsubstantiated charges, amplified by Big Media, to operate as a sort of public relations Chinese water torture, the object of which is to make the target so "controversial" that his colleagues will heave him overboard to get the jackals off their backs. As though one or more of them won't be "next." Too bad for them "the Hammer" is made of sterner stuff than Mr. Newt was.

Ol' GS had a busy day. He also had a conviction for insider trading upheld in France, of all places. But Dems don't care how he got his money, just so they get continued access to an unlimited stream of it.

Ed Morrissey pegs Soros quite nicely:

I find it amusing anyway that the man who funds the anti-globalist, anti-capitalist Left made his money through currency speculation and apparently some more-than-clever stock transactions in the international market. He escaped to the West from Hungary with next to nothing and made billions by manipulating capital on a global basis. However, once he had his fortune secured, he has appeared intent on making sure that no one gets afforded the same chances he had to succeed.

Of course George Soros is a hypocrite - he's a left-winger. But he and his misbegotten ideological gang-bangers were taught a lesson last year: you still can't buy an American presidential election if your name isn't Clinton. So now he's down-grading to a House Majority Leader instead.

Makes you wonder how far down the food chain he's willing to go to finally score a scalp.

Let all dogcatchers beware: you have been warned.