DeLay's final straw! Caught smokin' a Commie Stogie!!!!

[xray s]

Oh the humanity!

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1054968,00.html?cnn=yes

Time / Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2005
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes, according to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a cigar is an economic prop to a brutal totalitarian regime. Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay warned that Fidel Castro "will take the money. Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro's blood-thirsty hands.... American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor."

DeLay has long been one of Congress' most vocal critics of what he calls Castro's "thugocracy," which is why some sharp-eyed TIME readers were surprised last week to see a photo of the Majority Leader smoking one of Cuba's best—a Hoyo de Monterrey double corona, which generally costs about $25 when purchased overseas and is not available in this country. The cigar's label clearly states that it was made in "Habana." The photo was taken in Jerusalem on July 28, 2003, during a meeting between DeLay and the Republican Jewish Coalition at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

[Inland]

1. Ethics, smethics-- the man is helping Fidel! nt

[LuckyTheDog]

57. And sure, it was "technically not illegal," but SO WHAT?

"Go ahead and do what you can get away" with is not the standard I would like to set for our LAWMAKERS.

If they are representing the U.S. overseas, they should obey U.S. law even if they do not have to. The only exceptions would cases in which that would require them to violate local laws. It is only right that they should have that much respect for our laws.

[Paul Dlugokencky]

69. Surprise, surprise!

DeLay is a hypocrite. What a shocker!



http://www.cafepress.com/kickindemocrats

[LuckyTheDog]

75. Yea, gee

Who'da thought, eh?

[saigon68]

104. He's a Two Faced Piece of SHIT

[Inland]

79. Whereas the repugs couldn't care less about what is legal, or hypocritical

They just see two cents going to Cuba so that Delay can look like a big shot smoking a cigar. Why does Tom love Castro so much?

[demo dutch]

87. It is against the law now that the law has been changed last September

the article states the following:

"DeLay's smoke may have run afoul of his principles, but it did not violate U.S. regulations at the time. However, it would now. Last September, the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control tightened its prohibitions against U.S. citizens importing or consuming Cuban cigars. Even Americans licensed to bring back up to $100 worth of Cuban goods are no longer allowed to include tobacco products in what they carry. The regulation also noted that Americans are barred not only from purchasing Cuban goods in foreign countries, but also from consuming them in those countries."

[Toots]

89. Well they should check Limbaugh's stash then?

He is photographed regularly smoking the Cubans. So much for Republican values....

[ClintonTyree]

2. Just the old...

"Do as I say, not as I do" syndrome. Hypocrisy, thy name is, "Republican".

[pbartch]

26. Of course Delay is a hypocrite. He is un-ethical, Immoral & should be

impeached and go to jail.

[hector459]

53. I bet those cigars are all over Israel.

What does it say about friends who won't even honor our sanctions?
What does it say about us when we won't even honor our sanctions?

Of course, the sanctions against Cuba were meant to hurt Cubans, not us, right?

[napi21]

3. Oh shit! Hold onto that pic1

I'd live to send it to him and ask for an explaination. Problem is, I don't matter to him, so it would fall on deaf ears. Can we have it published in a BIG circulation Miami newspaper?????

[xray s]

4. It's published in Time magazine

Thats pretty big

[emulatorloo]

7. A big picture too, in the Ann Coulter Cover Issue EOM

[rzemanfl]

5. You can bet some lobbyist paid for it. n/t

[emulatorloo]

6. Good - I'm glad Time confirmed it - we speculated about it here . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3536138

[xray s]

10. Proving once again DU is way ahead of the curve....

...when it come to exposing the rats that are gnawing at our country :)

[Craig3410]

44. Of course, when we're the only ones TRYING to expose them.... NT

[Skinner]

76. Great catch.

:thumbsup:

[blondeatlast]

8. Ahem. Effing hypocrites.

Damn hypocrites--OxyContin Rush ADMITTED to enjoying Cuban cigars--and French wine... in France, and loving every minute of it.

Pardon the edit, but I had to cover an exposed portion of my posterior, as it were.

[elehhhhna]

16. We always put them in the checked luggage. No big deal.

[FreedomAngel82]

34. And here

I thought they were boycotting France. :eyes:

[blondeatlast]

38. This was in Cigar Aficionado

magazine--I believe it was the December '04 issue.

Biggest hypocrite ever. He blatantly enjoys the things he rails against on his show.

Here's a link; save it for any Rush fans you know!

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,18,00.html

[ktowntennesseedem]

39. Freedom Stogies!!!

[Dawgs]

41. Isn't Rush's favorite US city San Francisco?

Go figure!!!

[whistle]

9. Tom DeLay's response to the charge of using contraban.....

..."Oh poop, I was in Israel, I thought it was a Hebrew National Brand cigar."

[MrMonk]

11. You miss the point

when Delay was handed the cigar, he immediately set fire to it.

[nickgutierrez]

32. LOL

Nice. :D

[bvar22]

12. Spred this across all the internets.

I'm sending it out now.


:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Fridays Child]

13. I think DUers may have caught this first.

There was a thread about it the other day.

[tridim]

14. Rush smokes em too

He's proud of the fact. Hypocrites all.

[tallahasseedem]

15. LOL!

It just keeps rollin on down for him!

[elehhhhna]

17. Tomorrow's headline: A Dem Senator Smoked A Cuban Once, too, ya know!

[Dr.Phool]

29. Well, it,s not illegal to smoke them out of the country.

I've had them in Canada and Mexico. But, I'm not a hypocrite either.

[Purrfessor]

45. Actually, it is now illegal to smoke them out of the country.

from the article:

DeLay's smoke may have run afoul of his principles, but it did not violate U.S. regulations at the time. However, it would now. Last September, the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control tightened its prohibitions against U.S. citizens importing or consuming Cuban cigars. Even Americans licensed to bring back up to $100 worth of Cuban goods are no longer allowed to include tobacco products in what they carry. The regulation also noted that Americans are barred not only from purchasing Cuban goods in foreign countries, but also from consuming them in those countries.



I guess this means we have cigar police roaming the countryside in places like Costa Rica.

[demo dutch]

88. Yes it is now that they changed the law last September!

the article states as follows:

"DeLay's smoke may have run afoul of his principles, but it did not violate U.S. regulations at the time. However, it would now. Last September, the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control tightened its prohibitions against U.S. citizens importing or consuming Cuban cigars. Even Americans licensed to bring back up to $100 worth of Cuban goods are no longer allowed to include tobacco products in what they carry. The regulation also noted that Americans are barred not only from purchasing Cuban goods in foreign countries, but also from consuming them in those countries."

[Wizard777]

113. You don't own me.

If anything as an American citizen I am partial owner of the government. Not vice versa. This not only interferes with my liberties abroad. It also interferes with the sovereignty of other countries by using my citizenship to place American Laws upon foreign soil. If they don't want American law in their country along with American Law Enforcement. They haev to keep Americans out. Besides what's the point of spending thoudands of dollars on a vacation to a foreign country if you never leave America? Why go to Europe to sun bathe when going topless in America is illegal? They used to do that Crap in the USSR. I don't think Reagan defeated communism. I think he surrendered. The republicans have become a front for the communist party in america. I think Delay was just enjoying the benefits of being in the peoples party aka communist. That's the down side of Mc Carthyism. The republicans have gone communist and everyone is afraid to call them what they are. Pinko commie bastards!

[Toots]

90. Maybe not illegal but very unethical for the Majority Leader especially

But when did ethics ever bother a Republican?

[ltfranklin]

37. Alternate "Tomorrows Headline"

OVERZEALOUS AIDE GIVES TOM DELAY CUBAN CIGAR!

"He told me it was from Guadamala!" says angry Congressman.

[The White Tree]

84. And He didn't know it was a Cuban

The guy next to him handed it to him and told him it was really a Salvadoran cigar. How was he supposed to know?:shrug:

It's all just a plot by the vast left wing conspiracy in America to discredited one of America's finest Amerikans.:sarcasm:

[UCLA Dem]

18. Why doesn't he just resign and get it over with!!

[FreedomAngel82]

35. He's just like the rest of them

A pure stubborn person. Only way he'd step down is because Bush told him to. "Good for the party" type of thing.

[aldian159]

81. NO!

Not only should he stick around, but I want him to be associated with every Republican running in 2006.

[graywarrior]

19. Watch them twist this toward Clinton's cigar antics.

[gizmo1979]

20. Isn't that illegal?

He's broken the law and now he should pay.Is that a felony by any chance?

[stray cat]

23. Buying it would have been illegal but not smoking it.

[napi21]

24. Probably not illegal to buy in Israel.

It's only illegal to buy them here.

[gizmo1979]

40. Dam it.

[Penndems]

42. According to the Time Magazine article, it IS illegal to smoke them

Check out the last sentence. Congress has tightened the embargo regulations:

"DeLay's smoke may have run afoul of his principles, but it did not violate U.S. regulations at the time. However, it would now. Last September, the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control tightened its prohibitions against U.S. citizens importing or consuming Cuban cigars. Even Americans licensed to bring back up to $100 worth of Cuban goods are no longer allowed to include tobacco products in what they carry. The regulation also noted that Americans are barred not only from purchasing Cuban goods in foreign countries, but also from consuming them in those countries."

[jakefrep]

78. I wonder just how they intend to enforce that...

...are we on the honor system when we go overseas?

[demo dutch]

109. Maybe it's to justify the ban on travel to Cuba that Cuban-American

is so furious about. That they still vote Republican is beyond me!

[riverwalker]

21. Two faced Tom's own words

http://www.evote.com/index.asp?Page=/news_section/2000-07/07242000Cuba.asp
"This is a ruthless, murdering dictator in Cuba, and all the food will go through him," DeLay said. "He'll use that food and medicine as a tool to continue to oppress his people."

(But not the stogey money, eh Tom?)
And from his own web site:

http://www.majorityleader.gov/News.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=29

"Any economic activity between the United States and Cuba will only supply additional fuel to Castro's engine of repression. The proceeds of joint ventures and tourism don't empower the men and women of Cuba. They are bled into the Castro regime. Castro is funneling resources to develop the world's most diabolical weapons. And he shares these evil exports with the world's most dangerous and unstable regimes."

[FreedomAngel82]

36. I think

it's quite pathetic. Go figure.

[opusprime]

22. Not sure this is a big deal... other than the usual hypocracy.

He was in Israel, where Cubans are legal.

I smoke'm all the time in Mexico. It's only illegal if you posess them here in the States.

[MADem]

59. Even smoking them in Mexico, you are breaking the law now

Again, from the article: The regulation also noted that Americans are barred not only from purchasing Cuban goods in foreign countries, but also from consuming them in those countries.

[opusprime]

101. Holy Canoli's...

Hey Madem, Thanks for pointing out my error.

Smoking a legal cigar in Mexico is illegal for Americans?? That's the dumbest law I have ever heard of. I'm gonna smoke'm anyway, but now I want to see Delay prosecuted by his own stupid law.

[elehhhhna]

106. oh f that. ridiculous!

[Toots]

91. No, hypocrisy is no big deal to Americans, they are quite used to it

Especially Republicans....If you can not see the hypocrisy then you are a normal American. Ain't it grand????

[Penndems]

25. The punishment for importation of Cuban products is a $10,000 fine

and possible jail time. The folks at Customs take this VERY seriously.

As anybody who's ever taken a Carribean cruise knows, once you get into international waters, you can fire up a Cuban corona. Just make sure you smoke that stogie BEFORE you get into U.S. territorial waters.

Somebody needs to wake up DeLay and tell him the United States has had a trade embargo against Cuba since 1962. :mad:







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[Catherine Vincent]

28. what's the big deal?

Big dog smokes them too.

[sasquatch]

30. The Big Dog isn't a walking talking pile of hypocritical pigshit

DeLal is.

[Penndems]

31. He didn't smoke Cuban stogies, I can tell you THAT

Contrary to GOP folklore, he smoked a regular cigar every once in a while. He actually preferred the smaller tiperellos.

[Purrfessor]

47. That's right. It was Monica who preferred a well-endowed cuban...

cigar

[Toots]

92. Prove it

:shrug: I want to see a link with absolute proof of your statement because I believe it is a lie...

[mom cat]

33. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!...Great find....Ship this one to

everyone you can think of...maybe to the freepers!:rofl:

[spooky3]

43. Hey, if they're good enough for Gordon Gekko...!

[swag]

46. I wonder why Tom Delay is financially supporting Fidel Castro.

[swag]

48. Boycott Havana Tom Delay: American Traitor Bitch!

[deadparrot]

49. Uh oh...

P'sghettios. :)

[morffin]

50. My Father spent 3 years in Castro's prison

for being an anti revolutionary.......he is.....like most Cubans ( Bay of Pigs ) a staunch Republican.

I just sent him this pic........cant wait for his response.

[swag]

51. I'm very sorry that happened to your father.

[morffin]

52. Thanks Swag

for the nice words about my Dad. He is the greatest Man I will ever know. The republicans pander to the Cuban population with promises of taking down the Castro regime...Reagan had 8 years did nothing
Bush the elected had 4 years did nothing
and the Murder Monkey has done nothing in 5 years.

Yet every election the right wing goes into their get tough with Castro mode.

[MADem]

60. Why, do you suppose, the Florida Cubans keep buying it?

You are quite right. It is an entirely GOP thing--Nixon, Bebe Rebozo...

Hell, we could take down Castro in no time, simply with a little trade. Once people get a whiff of our skewed consumerism, they want more, it's like crack....or high fructose corn syrup!!

And, from the department of irony, Circle of Life Division: Bebe Rebozo's FATHER was a Cuban cigar maker!

[morffin]

80. The Repugs need Castro

in power so they can keep pandering to the Cubans in Miami. Castro will never be taken down as long as Florida is a key swing state.

The sad thing is that most Cubans are working class people who are voting against their interest by supporting republicans.

Its not just the fake tough anti Castro stance either. The core of the Cubans hatred for the Democratic party stems from the blown Bay of Pigs invasion. Cubans feel that JFK turned his back on the small liberating force and let them get slaughtered.

Our hatred of Bush is nothing compared to the avg. Cubans hatred of JFK.

[Name removed]

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[FreepFryer]

54. Yes, he's a hypocritical douche, but I think they're legal in Jerusalem.

[MADem]

61. Not if you are AMERICAN. Reread the article. nt

[FreepFryer]

83. I got it right the first time. The article clearly states:

DeLay's smoke may have run afoul of his principles, but it did not violate U.S. regulations at the time. However, it would now. Last September, the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control tightened its prohibitions against U.S. citizens importing or consuming Cuban cigars. Even Americans licensed to bring back up to $100 worth of Cuban goods are no longer allowed to include tobacco products in what they carry. The regulation also noted that Americans are barred not only from purchasing Cuban goods in foreign countries, but also from consuming them in those countries.

Look, he's a scummy lying criminal, and he's gonna go to jail, but not for this.

[MADem]

100. I was responding to your "legal in Jerusalem" assertion

They aren't legal for Americans to smoke, not now--that was my point. They may have been at one time, but he can't hide behind the blue and white flag to have his smoke any longer...

[FreepFryer]

107. okey dokey.

[EarlG]

65. Legal or illegal, that's not the point

He said: Fidel Castro "will take the money. Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro's blood-thirsty hands.... American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor."

So it's not even a matter of legality, it's a matter of national honor.

According to Tom DeLay anyway.

[FreepFryer]

82. Right - he's a hypocritical douche.

[Raksha]

111. What would Tom DeLay know about honor...

National or any other kind?

>>So it's not even a matter of legality, it's a matter of national honor.

According to Tom DeLay anyway.<<

[mark wayne]

55. Now if only we could catch him

with a "Monica Lewinsky"!

[MADem]

62. You'd probably have to catch him with a viagra first! n/t

[Beetwasher]

56. Sometimes It's The Little Things

n/t

[Renew Deal]

58. I wouldn't care if this wasn't so fucking HYPOCRITICAL!

Wanna go to a foreign land and smoke some Cohibas? I'm OK with that. But saying "Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro's blood-thirsty hands" and smoking one is just fucked up. The point isn't the cigar, it's as Beetwasher said. It's the little things.

[MADem]

64. You know how they will play it, though?

He'll say he didn't really "consume" that cigar because he didn't INHALE. And then, he'll find a way to make them believe that Clinton's PENIS MADE HIM smoke that cigar!

[tyedyeto]

72. And not only didn't he inhale.......

he'll say he was told it wasn't a Cuban cigar and was misled into thinking it was an American one.

[MADem]

74. Yep, today is the day they try on "MISLED" for size

I hope the universal response to that is "MISLED, MY ASS!"

And I hope Abramoff has a bodyguard and a food taster, and stays away from questionable transportation methods.

[Historic NY]

66. How this for a headline..........Tom Delay supports Commie pinko regime.

[surrey405]

67. Dont be so hard on him...

Sometimes our great Rep leaders need some time away...they need a cuban smoke...they need time away to their inner core...they always cannot wear their white KKK supporting covers...let them live a little...he is probably just building them up in his safe to plant them...in the judges houses...let him live...Go Cuban Cigars...make way for more conservative judges...and let liberal judges be shot like they would if they were under Castro...oh did i just say Castro...i meant W...Our National Hero W.

[slor]

68. Damn you people are good!

Nice catch, these guys are the personification of hypocrisy!

[Vogon_Glory]

70. We Should Look For Pix Showing DeLay Smoking in US

Progressives should look for pictures of the--ahem--Honorable Representative from Texas smoking Cuban cigars in the US. Catching the bugman smoking cigars from Forbidden Island would make for an interesting challenge for roll-film photographers--esp since roll film images are more credible than Photoshop (tm) prone digital images.

[Catfight]

71. He's celebrating the birth of the 'satan era' by being a hypocrite.

I find it perfectly indicative to the repugs shameless free for all these days. Nothing is beneath a repug. The repug motto: if it feels hypocritical, do it.

[ObaMania]

73. And it's illegal too!

Why isn't someone pounding this motherfucker on this?

[Robworld]

77. Tom Delay's patriotism in action.

Don't you realize that he was defending capitalism by smoking away the communist cigar. You obviously can't see the the symbolism behind this.

http://www.dumdumgoestothecircus.com/

[The White Tree]

85. This picture should be used in the election campaign against him

If he lasts that long.

I see a big billboard with this picture and the message:

"You've suffered under this fat cat long enough"

"Without delay, out with Delay"

[captain crunch]

86. Is anyone gettin this to Boxer and Conyers?

this should be part of the investigation.
Delay is goin DOWN!!

[vando]

93. Question: does this redeem Time Magazine?

Between this and the earlier rundown of the DeLay scandals, it seems that Time is doing a decent job shining some light on the activities of this cockroach. My question is: taken in the context of the recent Coulter suck-up piece, do we conclude:

1. that Time is actually following some sort of objective journalistic principle in showing both the positives and negatives of both ends of the political spectrum, as they claim; or


2. they're spinelessly caving to pressure from the left, just like they spinelessly cave to pressure from the right.

I genuinely want to know people's opinion. Mind you, I still think Mr. Cloud's piece is pure hackery, and running a piece on Ms. "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building" on the tenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing is hard to excuse. Rather, I'm curious about what the left's approach should be toward a national publication that remains somewhat important.

[Callboy]

94. some em if ya gottem

puff puff puff

[comsymp]

98. As badly as I'd like to believe that it's #1, I have to suggest that there

is probably a third option: Bandwagon.

DeLay is bleeding so the MSM is preparing to go into Shark Mode. It happened with Clinton, Newt, and even GeeWeeBee (albeit to a much lesser extent... so far).

Same as it ever was.


I'd love to be wrong. Frankly, I'd much rather have news outlets just report the friggin' facts, regardless of whose ox gets gored.

And welcome to DU~

[dsnail]

95. A Scandal of Irony

A Scandal of Irony: Abramoff Used DeLay to Fund Anti-Intifada Militia
by Joshua Frank

It shouldn't come as much of a shock that Jack Abramoff, the infamous DC super-lobbyist who has been accused of ripping off millions from his Native American clients, is a rabid Zionist. Abramoff, in the late 1990s, set up a pro-Israel charity front called the Capital Athletic Foundation. Sounds jovial enough. “The pitch ... was hard to resist,” Michael Isikoff recently reported for Newsweek, “a good way to get access on Capitol Hill, he told his clients ... was to contribute to worthy charity ... was supposed to provide sports programs and teach ‘leadership skills’ to city youth. Donating to it also had a side benefit, Abramoff told his clients: it was a favored cause of Rep. Tom DeLay.”....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Frank0428.htm

[LibertyLover]

96. Cuban cigars and DeLay

Is that what that funny writtin' on the label says? Damn Castro for not printin' it in Cuban, but in Spanish - sneaky Commie that he is. I apologize if it offended anyone.

[Nothing Without Hope]

97. Amazing. He really did (when this pic was taken) feel totally invulnerable

He could do anything, say anything, to anyone. He knew everyone feared him and "he was the government." So he felt quite safe doing something as stupid as this where it might be photographed. News media were under tight control, so why worry? Who would dare to call him on it? He would crush them and smother the story like so many other more important stories.

The utter hubris and assumption of invulnerability are even more chilling than the hypocrisy, and that is saying something.

yes, let's send this picture and the explanation everywhere. The fact that TIME printed it shows that the Powers That Be have decided that Tom DeLay's problems outweigh his continued usefulness. It's a clear sign that he is being jettisoned from the moving train of the neocons. No way would this have come out in that magazine without approval from the Powers.

Buh-bye, Tom! Can't say it was a pleasure! Too bad the six-legged coakroaches will be such a comedown for you after your high station among the two-legged ones.

[Nothing Without Hope]

102. Great Bradenton CARTOON on DeLay

[Stockholm]

99. Interesting piece from his website

"Those who would end the embargo may believe that, by engaging Cuba, their approach will bring constructive results. But nothing in Cuba takes place without Castro's blessing. And Castro profits from every business transaction in Cuba. Easing the embargo would only empower a tottering dictator."

more http://www.majorityleader.gov/News.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=29

:shrug:

[Predator Saint]

103. He didn't pay for it

It's OK for him to smoke a Cuban cigar if none of the money went to help Castro.

Let's give Tom Delay the benefit of the doubt, he probably stole it.

[demo dutch]

108. Not.. the new law says Americans aren's supposed to import or consume

even if you are outside of the US!
Yesterday was National Call-in Day on Cuba policy, mostly for Cubans that want to change the travel-ban. It's amazing to me that Cuban-Americans still vote Republican. Anyhow if the ban were lifted they would all violate the new law!

[OneForLuck]

105. surprise surprise

Why is it that I find myself constantly surprised by the overwhelming hypocrisy?? I honestly want to believe that even someone who has a soul as dark as Tom DeLay's occasionally means what he says. The odds say it has to happen once in a while. Then I find another article, like this one. And once I'm finished laughing my ass off I begin to wonder... ARE THEY ACTUALLY THIS STUPID OR DO I JUST SET MY EXPECTATIONS TOO HIGH?

[madeline_con]

110. hypocrite bastard!

I'm sure it was given to him by his host, and he just couldn't insult the ole Butcher of Beirut by turning it down!

[DuaneBidoux]

112. FORCE THE MAINSTREAM TO PICK THIS UP

Email everyone links--especially the few journalists who still have integrity.

[Wizard777]

114. Delay caught supporting terrorist regime!

Yes that's right Tom Delay is promoting and financing what Bush has called the terrorist regime of Fidel Castro. Every Cuban Cigar purchased for Delay to smoke is brings America closer to it's next boat load of Cuban refugees. I guess they can stay at Tom's house. He funded the oppression they are fleeing. If he didn't smoke them. people wouldn't buy them for him. Delay may not have run afoul of Import laws. But he may have ran afoul of the patriot act provisions on supporting terrorist regimes. But hey, they will change ethics rules for him so Bush will back down from Castro like a sissy boy for Delay too. We may have actually found someone that is more important than Bush.

[Anakin Skywalker]

115. Well You Can Just Chalk This Up

to more CONservative/Rethuglican HYPOCRISY! FU, Tom Delay!