DeLay absolves himself in his book

[Judi Lynn]

March 18, 2007, 1:56AM
DeLay absolves himself in his book


By CARL HULSE
New York Times

WASHINGTON — Tom DeLay, the fiery former House majority leader and longtime congressman from Sugar Land, knows why his party lost control of Congress last year. And he is not to blame.

In his new book, DeLay, a polarizing figure whom Democrats sought to make a symbol of Republican corruption, attributes the Republican defeat in November to frustration with President Bush, the war and "a general perception of Republican incompetence and lack of principles."

"I would suggest that Republicans lost because they did not communicate their message and their victories with enough strength to overcome short-term, media-fed issues that arose right before the election," DeLay writes in the book, No Retreat, No Surrender, referring in part to the congressional page scandal.

In typical take-no-prisoners fashion, DeLay, who left Congress last year after his indictment in Texas on charges related to campaign financing, lashes out at Newt Gingrich, the former speaker, and other fellow leaders of the 1994 Republican revolution. He criticizes the Republican leader of the ethics panel that admonished him, calls former President Clinton "slimy" and portrays leading Democrats as his evil liberal tormentors.
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http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4640356.html

[Skittles]

1. I cannot believe he has the NERVE to call ANYONE "SLIMY"

Tom DeLay is the very definition of the word SLIMY

[formercia]

3. Shrink time for DeLay.

that boy needs help.

[0rganism]

21. yet this is exactly the stereotypical slimy thing to do

In fact, I would be surprised if Delay DIDN'T claim innocence and speak ill of his political enemies. Considering their standard practice is to accuse the opposition preemptively of those things the GOP is already doing, and launch attacks against qualities which they themselves exhibit more often than not, it's expected.

Think back to 2004, when the Republican noise machine successfully presented W as a war hero and Sen. Kerry as a cowardly deserter. There is no indictment they cannot twist into injustice, no depth to which they will not sink, no lie they will not tell with a straight face. They have no shame, no moral sense, no ethics, no conscience, no integrity, and above all, lots and lots of PR money.

[sutz12]

2. Republican version of a "mea culpa"

"He did it!"

:shrug:

[ClintonTyree]

9. Wouldn't that be....

"hea culpa". ;)

[sutz12]

17. You're probably right.....

My latin is not so pretty good.

:rofl:

[Joe Bacon]

25. Oh, no! CLINTON did it

He blames everything on Clinton. De Lay is such a pathetic sack of shit.

[northofdenali]

4. Good for him!

Because his God won't!! He's SCREWN!!11! along with his buddies.........

[tblue]

5. He is such a joke.

"Today a Texas grand jury indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme. This is the most embarrassing thing to happen to the Republicans since yesterday." --Jay Leno

"The Republicans are in trouble. Bill First, the Senate leader, is under investigation, Karl Rove is about to be indicted, Tom DeLay was indicted twice in one week. You almost feel bad for how screwed this guy is, because usually when someone wants to beat this kind of a rap, the person they bribe is Tom DeLay." --Bill Maher

"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Iraq's new leaders against hiring their friends and family members for government jobs, and then Majority Leader Tom Delay gave the rebuttal." --Jay Leno


"So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself." --Tom DeLay, explaining at the 1988 GOP convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War (Source)

"Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" –Tom Delay, to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005

"Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist." –Tom DeLay, during a debate in Congress on increasing the minimum wage, April 23, 1996

[saigon68]

6. Photo says it all

[argyl]

7. Tom DeLay,one of the original victims of affirmative action.Minorities

cheated him out of the combat tour of duty in Viet Nam he so desperately desired.Totally shameless POS scum.

[quiet.american]

8. "...in typical take no responsibility fashion...." is more like it.

"....in typical take-no-prisoners fashion...." -- what a crock.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

10. The very definition...

of sociopathy. In Buggy's case we might even use the outmoded name for the condition: Psychopath.

"It's not my fault! It's everyone else's fault! They just didn't recognize my greatness, my finest qualities, my noblest of intentions! I was brought down by my lessers, my inferiors, like a modern Gulliver!"

[DemoTex]

12. How 'bout "Crazy as a Bed Bug"?

I've always contended that the BugMan huffed too much toxaphene (2,2,5-endo,6-exo,8,8,9,10-octachlorobornane) in his roach-fighting days in Houston (Roach Capital of the World).

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

13. Organo-Phosphate, right?

So, in other words, you posit that his problem is that he is a nerve agent victim?

That would answer most of the questions about him. ;-)

[C_U_L8R]

11. Repubes always seem to blame their failiures

on something other than the issue at hand hand.
Here Delay blames their "communications"...
without any recognition that they were flat out WRONG
to begin with. There is a lot wrong with the repubes,
so much wrong they can't even think straight

[kurth]

14. Yep, the GOP lost because they didn't communicate

Like there are not enough GOP communicators on AM radio, TV, newspapers, etc.

[aquart]

15. Then, gosh, we don't need a trial.

[exlrrp]

16. A cogent remark in the article

""DeLay titling his new book No Retreat, No Surrender is like Jack Abramoff calling his memoirs Ethics and Honesty,"

[dogfacedboy]

18. Biggest. Tool. Ever. n/t

[Psephos]

19. The title should be "No Shame, No Scruples"

:thumbsdown:

Heh. This post would be more appropriate in Books:Fiction. Or let's create a new forum called Books:Fantasy.

Peace.

[rocktivity]

20. Candidate for this month's "You Call This NEWS?" award

The Rethugs got their message across just fine, Roach Boy--most the public just stopped buying what you were selling, that's all.

By the way, why aren't you in jail?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Truthseeker013]

22. Delay absolves himself in new book

And we say that Holocaust deniers have issues...

This man needs more jail time than Scooter Libby will ever see, for starters. In this, behold every reason Republicans are so reviled.

[Orsino]

23. Well, someone's gotta do it.

When public opinion, the facts and his former colleagues all conspire to make him look guilty as hell, it takes vision to construct a reality in which he's not dirty.

[DemGa]

24. Indeed we will not retreat or surrender,

but remain vigilant for future "Tom Delays."

[AnneD]

26. These folks won't shut up....

til they are busting rocks at Riker's.

[MAGICBULLET]

27. NEVER in my life have I seen such an insincere smile

<http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1020051delay1.html>


Not only that, but you have to have some steel "huevos" to actually pose like that when you're being indicted. I'd hold the cops partially responsible for allowing him to smirk during a mugshot like that. lol!

[MasonJar]

28. Aw shucks, and I thought he was going that he wasgoing to plead

guilty as charged in his own little book.