DeLay Resigns as Majority Leader
It’s actually worth taking the time to read about Tom Delay. He’s a lot like George W. Bush. There’s almost nothing in his background that suggests that he’s the kind of person one might want to serve in the Congress. He was a sleazy, drunk college student, a sleazy businessman, and he’s been the paradigm of a sleazy representative. The things that brought about his downfall weren’t little things. They were gross violations of office. He campaigns as a Fundamentalist Christian, but he behaves like an corrupt, amoral bully on a regular basis. Why has it been so long in coming, his exposure? Why have the Republican leaders not acted themselves?
His continued presence in a Republican leadership role is an indictment of the party a whole. Those of us who criticize the Republican party and where it has taken us in the recent years are accused of being driven by cockeyed political ideals. I, for one, am less motivated by my own political ideals than by abject disgust with the outrageous way they’ve done their business, and their blatant ignorance and/or ignoring of the Constitution of our country [which they currently control]. Tom Delay epitomizes the corrupt thugs that have lead us on an aberrant and destructive path. They’ve been as irresponsible with the national debt and the lives of our children as they’ve been with the lobbyist’s payola…
Glad to see him go. Next?
[By the way, Houston, how about voting him out of government for good in November if he’s still out of jail.]
We like to refer to him as Tom ‘Forced Abortions’ DeLay. See: Al Franken’s The Truth (with Jokes) chapter on Saipan.