Tom Delay .. class act!

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Hypocrisy is Tom DeLay's Middle Name, Along with Exterminator and Satan's Main Man

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Did you know that Tom DeLay won't talk to his own mother? This is the mother -- spouse -- who went along with pulling the plug on Tom's dad -- along with Tom and the rest of his family -- which she confirmed to the Los Angeles Times this week:

"There was no point to even really talking about it," Maxine DeLay, the congressman's 81-year-old widowed mother, recalled in an interview last week. "There was no way [Charles] wanted to live like that. Tom knew — we all knew — his father wouldn't have wanted to live that way."

Doctors advised that he would "basically be a vegetable," said the congressman's aunt, JoAnne DeLay.

When his father's kidneys failed, the DeLay family decided against connecting him to a dialysis machine. "Extraordinary measures to prolong life were not initiated," said his medical report, citing "agreement with the family's wishes." His bedside chart carried the instruction: "Do not resuscitate." On Dec. 14, 1988, the DeLay patriarch "expired with his family in attendance."

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But by May 13, 2001, when the Washington Post did a feature story on the toxic exterminator from Texas, the headline was, "Absolute Truth; Tom DeLay is certain that Christian family values will solve America's problems. But he's uncertain how to face his own family." The Post article goes on to report:

For all of Tom DeLay's public espousal of Christian values, particularly his deep commitment to family, he privately has nursed a terrible estrangement from his own mother and three siblings. After the 1988 death of his father and the rise of his career in Washington, DeLay cut off contact with all three siblings, and seven years ago he stopped attending DeLay family gatherings. He has not seen or talked to his mother, Maxine, in two years, even though she lives about 10 miles away from Sugar Land; nor did he invite any of them to his daughter's 1999 wedding or even mention his mother in the published wedding announcement. All through his roomy home are many photographs of his wife, his daughter and his in-laws -- but not a single one of the DeLays. Throughout our conversations, this rift is the only subject that he adamantly will not discuss.

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And we could go into the story about his paid-for lobbying junkets, including one that included his daughter indulging in a champagne bubble bath with Tom DeLay's Gucci-heeled groupies. He's already been the subject of investigations of three ethical violations in the House, and an indictment is allegedly nipping at this heels in Texas. And then there's his failed cockroach killing business, as the Washington Post describes it:

In a more expansive moment, Tom DeLay once proclaimed himself "the best weasel killer in Houston" and described his pest-control company as "the Cadillac" of exterminators. DeLay no longer advertises that -- his official biographies describe him only as former owner of an unspecified small business.

Indeed, a closer examination of his company, Albo Pest Control, suggests it was at best a struggling operation, and the public record raises questions about DeLay's business ethics, truthfulness and the lengths to which he will go when someone crosses him.

His first job out of college was at a pesticide company, mixing, among other things, large batches of rat poison. He went solo in 1973 and purchased Albo, which quickly ran into problems in Houston's boom-bust economy, says Christine DeLay, who helped run it then. "He was borrowing money to make payroll, which was a stupid business decision. Tommy said his five technicians were loyal, honest men and should not be laid off, so he borrowed money to keep from layoffs," she says. "So he got behind on payroll taxes."

DeLay was hit with tax liens three times by the Internal Revenue Service, in 1979, 1980 and 1983, because he was not paying payroll and income taxes. In addition, he paid court settlements twice to business associates who claimed he'd cheated them. DeLay, while still in the state legislature, had signed a deal to buy out a small exterminator, Robert Bartnett, for about $ 40,000, but only paid him an initial $ 8,000, Bartnett recalls. DeLay claimed he stopped paying because Bartnett sold him a failing business. "When I was able to go look at his records," Bartnett says, "I learned that a great number of customers had quit because they didn't feel they were being serviced properly." The court ordered DeLay to pay Bartnett the $ 32,000 he was owed.

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Oh, we could go on and on about the DeLay hypocrisy. Anyone so hypocritical and so misleading, self-righteous, and hateful, could only be working for the OTHER side, and we don't mean God's.

As one of his aides wrote about Clinton during the impeachment, "This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS -- Not only do you kick him -- you kick him until he passes out -- then beat him over the head with a baseball bat -- then roll him up in an old rug -- and throw him off a cliff into the pounding; surf below!!!!!"

No, it's not something a faithful mother would approve of. But then again, Tom DeLay, the great champion of the brain-dead Terry Schiavo, doesn't talk to his mother -- or his siblings, so all his mother can do is read about it from afar and wonder if she gave birth to the male version of Rosemary's baby

 

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The Gospel of Saint Tom
by mkanejeeves.com
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[font=arial,sans-serif]It’s ironic that, on Palm Sunday, a holy day on which Christians recall Christ entering Jerusalem riding on an ass, the asses in Congress forged a “Palm Sunday Compromise” to allow federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo tragedy. It was a last ditch effort to force a hospice to re-attach the woman’s feeding tube.

Led by the Senate’s Bill Frist and the exceedingly vocal House Majority leader Tom DeLay, Congress’ action was touted as being a moral response to the severely brain-damaged woman’s plight. (Although a Republican Party memo circulating last weekend breathlessly noted: “The ‘pro-life’ base will be excited… This is a great political issue, because Senator (Bill) Nelson of Florida has already refused to become a co-sponsor and this is a tough issue for Democrats.” Whoo-hooo!)

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=8 align=right><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 bgColor=#eeeeee><TBODY><TR><TD><!-- BEGIN BURST! CODE --><!-- /* Copyright 1997-2003 BURST! Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. (Version 1.0F) */ --><IFRAME marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0 src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad5061a.cgi/if/v=1.0F/sz=300x250A/11120597541295328477/RETURN-CODE/" frameBorder=0 width=300 scrolling=no height=250> </IFRAME><!-- END BURST! CODE --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Former insect exterminator DeLay, the most rebuked member of the current Congress, was all over the place, lobbing sound bites like Holy hand grenades. His targets? Doctors. Judges. And, of course, Terri’s husband, Michael. “I don’t know what transpired between Terri and her husband,” DeLay declared, conjuring up images of Elmer Gantry wielding a can of Raid. “All I know is Terri is alive. …Unless she has specifically written instructions in her hand, with her signature, I don’t care what her husband says.”

Apparently aiming for the fast track to sainthood, Saint Thomas of ‘The Hammer,’ embarked on a gas-bagging tour of media outlets. Appearing before the conservative Family Research Council last Friday, he opened the floodgates of piety, somehow getting his own plight (a few ethics scandals on the back burner) confused with Terri’s.

“It is more than just Terri Schiavo,” he intoned. “This is a critical issue for people in this position, and it is also a critical issue to fight that fight for life, whether it be euthanasia or abortion. I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, one thing God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo to elevate the visibility of what’s going on in America. That Americans would be so barbaric as to pull a feeding tube out of a person that is lucid and starve them to death for two weeks. I mean, in America that’s going to happen if we don’t win this fight.

“And so it’s bigger than any one of us, and we have to do everything that is in our power to save Terri Schiavo and ANYbody else that may be in this kind of position, and let me just finish with this:”

Here it comes. Enough about her, let’s talk about me and my ilk.

“This is exactly the kind of issue that’s going on in America, that attacks against the conservative movement, against me and against many others. The point is, the other side has figured out how to win and to defeat the conservative movement, and that is to go after people personally, charge them with frivolous charges, link up with all these do-gooder organizations funded by (progressive billionaire) George Soros, and then get the national media on their side. That whole syndicate that they have going on right now is for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to destroy the conservative movement. It is to destroy conservative leaders, and not just in elected office… This is a huge nationwide concerted effort to destroy everything we believe in. And you need to look at this, and what’s going on and participate in fighting back.”

Okay. Big finale!

“You know, one way they stopped churches from getting into politics was Lyndon Johnson, who passed a law that said you couldn’t get in politics or you’re going to lose your tax-exempt status, because they were all opposed to him when he was running for President. That law we’re trying to repeal. It’s very difficult to do that, but the point is, when they can knock out a leader, then no other leader will step forward for a while, because they don’t want to go through the same thing. If they go after and get a pastor, then other pastors shrink from what they should be doing. It forces Christians back into the church. That’s what’s going on in America. The world is too bad and I’m going to get inside this building and I’m not going to play in the world. That’s not what Christ asked us to do.”

Uh. Someone’s been inhaling the pesticide, again. No, we certainly wouldn’t want Christians in churches. At the end of his rousing Gospel, Saint Thomas wore his martyred expression so well that Mel Gibson briefly considered filming his life story. (The Passion of the Putz?)

Now, it should be noted that Terri Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state for fifteen years. Apparently, Bill Frist got an actual video tape of Terri to “diagnose” last week but DeLay got stuck with a few episodes of “Veggie Tales,” prompting him to declare. “She talks and she laughs and she expresses likes and discomforts. It won’t take a miracle to help Terri Schiavo. It will only take the medical care and therapy that patients require.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking someone other than Terri requires a little therapy.

As for Michael Schiavo, “I don’t have a lot of respect for a man who has treated a woman this way!…His abuse and neglect…is outrageous. Partnered with this judge who has allowed him to treat her like this…is outrageous… What kind of man is he?”

Other bon mots delivered from the Mount: “No care for 15 years. No therapy. No nothing! What kind of man is that?”

“Schiavo’s life is not slipping away - it is being violently wrenched from her body in an act of medical terrorism.”

Regarding Democrats who balked at becoming involved in what is, essentially, a family issue, Saint Thomas said that they “have put Mrs. Schiavo’s life at risk to prove a point, an unprecedented profile in cowardice.”

Hallelujah! Can I get a witless? (It should be noted that DeLay’s quasi-Biblical brand of bombast is nothing new. Before the 2000 Presidential debacle, he declared: “We march forward with a biblical worldview, a worldview that says God is our Creator, that man is a sinner, and that we will save this country by changing the hearts and minds of Americans.” And, as we all know, the way to change hearts and minds is by bellowing and tossing insults. You know, as in: Who would Jesus diss?)

DeLay’s delicate way with the English language caused Michael Schiavo to dub him the “little slithering snake.” Considering the meddling efforts of Congress, Schiavo went on: “To make comments that Terri would want to live, how do they know? Have they ever met her? What color are her eyes? What’s her middle name? What’s her favorite color? They don’t have any clue who Terri is. They should all be ashamed of themselves.”

Yes, they should. But shame doesn’t resonate with most Republican politicians, especially Saint Tom DeLay, a sanctimonious sort of fellow who has had a legal defense fund up and running since the year 2000. (Uh, just in case of a frame job? Yeah, that’s it. Somebody’s out to set him up to take the fall, any fall. Because he’s, uh, powerful. Yeah, that’s it. He da man so evvybudy’s out to gettim.)

The fund is up to a million dollars, now, earning 44% of it’s total stash in 2004. But why would such a pious, caring man need a legal defense fund? Well, for one thing, DeLay has been rebuked five times by the House ethics committee, three rebukes last year alone.

The ethics committee didn’t find it amusing that DeLay pressured a congressman to vote for a Medicare bill by promising to support his son’s run for Congress.

Nor did they giggle at DeLay’s enlisting the Federal Aviation Administration to search for Texas Democratic lawmakers during a battle over a dubious redistricting plan he engineered.

And DeLay’s discussing pending energy legislation with energy lobbyists at his fund-raising golf outing didn’t go over too well, either.

The result? After the three rebukes, Republicans tried and failed to change house rules so DeLay could remain Majority leader in case he is ever indicted. They replaced the bi-partisan committee’s Republican chairman (who presided over the rebukes) and two Republicans panel members who supported them. The two members were replaced by long-time DeLay supporters. And, oh yeah, they changed the rules of the ethics committee making it exceedingly difficult to investigate anyone.

Then, last September, three political fund-raising cronies of DeLay were indicted by a Texas grand jury in a case involving a political committee that DeLay helped create. The committee is accused of illegally using corporate donations for political purposes (as in electing a Republican majority in the Texas House and, then, ramming through a redistricting plan that unseated four Democratic representatives in 2004). Documents in a related civil trial suggest DeLay played a substantial role in the group’s corporate fund raising.

DeLay says he’s innocent and accused the chief prosecutor of “trying to criminalize politics.” (No. I think the Republican party has already done that.)

Last December, the watchdog group Public Citizen revealed that, in apparent violation of House of Representatives rules, Delay accepted contributions from three registered lobbyists to his legal defense fund. He gave the money back.

This year, it was revealed that DeLay accepted lavish, all expense-paid trips to South Korea and Britain funded by business interests, including an organization registered as a foreign agent of South Korea (big no-no) and several gambling companies with a direct interest in legislation then pending before the House.

DeLay’s reaction to all of this? He’s the victim of partisan politics. “It is very unfortunate that the Democrats have no agenda. All they can do is try to tear down the House and burn it down in order to gain power.”

(This from a man whose take on bipartisanship included the quip: “We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority of us who believe that indeed we are there to govern but, more importantly, we are there to be an opposition to the Democratic philosophy and the only way to do that is through confrontation.” Praise God.)

So how is DeLay’s passion play playing out? Well, a new CBS poll found that 82% of Americans surveyed want President Bush and Congress to butt out of Terri Schiavo’s life. 74% said Congress was motivated, not by morality, but by politics. Congressional job approval dropped to 34%, the lowest level since 1997 and the Clinton witch hunt. And Dubya’s popularity has plummeted to 43%

And, oh, yeah. Anybody who wasn’t already aware of DeLay’s ethics problems, are certainly aware of them, now.

So, pity poor Tom DeLay: altruist, defender of the weak, martyr, victim, misunderstood.

The kind of humble civil servant who, when told by a government employee that he had to put out his cigarette because it was illegal to smoke on government property, stated: “I AM the federal government.”

Blessed are the bullies, for they shall eventually be exposed.

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Ronnie Earle, the bane of DeLay's existence, is still working his way through the DeLay inner circle.



The District Attorney is on his third grand jury, this one focusing on Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick and the Texas Association of Business. There's no way to know when Earle will issue indictments, but this grand jury expires at the end of April, so that's the latest. And will indictments be issued? The case against both TAB and Craddick appear strong. A Travis County grand jury is looking into whether Mr. Craddick received an illegal boost from the political action committee when he sought the leadership post in 2002. Three individuals and eight corporations have been indicted, and the case has drawn national attention because of ties between TRMPAC and U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

While the grand jury deliberations are secret, thousands of pages of civil court records culled by The Dallas Morning News show:

<LI>TRMPAC helped Mr. Craddick ingratiate himself to GOP colleagues by sending him TRMPAC campaign checks to deliver. In all, 25 checks to Republican House candidates worth $177,000 were routed through Mr. Craddick.

<LI>E-mails, phone records and depositions show that TRMPAC shared its campaign intelligence on key races with Mr. Craddick and set up a Washington breakfast for him to meet large corporate donors.

<LI>A TRMPAC official kept tabs on whether potential Republican House candidates would support Mr. Craddick in the speaker's race.

<LI>Committee officials invited Mr. Craddick to accompany them on appointments to solicit individual donors.

Several corporate checks made out to TRMPAC had cover letters sent in care of Mr. Craddick, even though he has said that he was unconnected to the committee. In at least one instance, Mr. Craddick wrote a personal thank-you note for a contribution made to TRMPAC.

Once this grand jury finishes its business, Earle is expected to convene the fourth grand jury on the matter targetting DeLay specifically. Rumors are already flying that those already indicted are singing in exchange for more lenient sentences. No one wants to rot in jail for DeLay's sake.

The circle is closing in. Even as DeLay is forced to fend off a media assault from the GOP establishment (WSJ and Brooks, for starters), his legal woes are only going to intensify.

 

[JDeuce]

So in the end...Delay received not a penny from the settlement, and signed over his proceeds to his mother.

How exactly is he a hypocrite...?

 

[RobFunk]

Liberals Run Ads Demanding DeLay Resign

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HOUSTON - Two liberal groups are running TV ads demanding that Tom DeLay resign as House majority leader and urging fellow congressmen to mobilize against the Texas representative, who is under investigation for alleged ethics violations.

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The ads focus on the allegations regarding DeLay's fund-raising practices and travel. DeLay has not been charged with wrongdoing.



"Tom DeLay can't wash his hands of corruption by involving Congress in one family's personal tragedy. ... But Congress can certainly wash its hands of Tom DeLay," the narrator says in one ad, referring to DeLay's efforts in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case.



DeLay spokesman Dan Allen dismissed the ads as liberals' "latest attack on a well-organized effort to move America forward."



The second ad exhorts the congressmen to "clean up Congress — without DeLay."



The Public Campaign Action Fund paid $25,000 to run ads in the districts of three Republicans: House Ethics Committee chairman Doc Hastings of Washington, Rep. Tom Reynolds of New York and Rep. Rob Simmons of Connecticut.



The Campaign for America's Future, backed by labor, women's and civil rights groups, is spending $75,000 to run the Schiavo ad in Washington and in DeLay's Houston-area district.



arty:

 

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From Judd at ThinkProgress:



DeLay just released this statement:

Mrs. Schiavo's death is a moral poverty and a legal tragedy. This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change. The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Schindlers and with Terri Schiavo's friends in this time of deep sorrow. Make no mistake about it: Tom DeLay, our Majority Leader, is now threatening judges, doctors and Terri Schiavo's husband.


DeLay is just an unbelievable dick.

 

[RobFunk]

yeah that guy is tapped. what a loop.

 

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And so it begins. Tom DeLay and his Leadership team have dug in their heels and decided to hold their own party hostage:

Morton Blackwell, Republican National Committee member from Virginia and a member of ACU's board, said Republicans are being told support for Mr. DeLay is mandatory if they want future support from conservatives. "Conservative leaders across the country are working now to make sure that any politician who hopes to have conservative support in the future had better be in the forefront as we attack those who attack Tom DeLay," he said.

 

[Redneckman]

Nobody answered JDeuce's question. Facts don't matter I guess