IVINS: DeLay's Bacardi Mix

[Say_What]

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USTIN, Texas – What I like about the new radical, right-wing Republican takeover of this country is how easily they blow past all our defenses against deja vu, they-all-do-it cynicism.

There you are – thinking you're way too old and have been around this block too many times to suddenly up and evince moral outrage over a little callousness here or a dollop of favoritism there. Suddenly, you find yourself whomperjawed, outraged, stupefied with disbelief. A Girl Scout again, after all these years. It's enough to make me believe in that nutty fundamentalist theory about "secondary virginity," which claims you can become a virgin again even if you're not a virgin. I swan to goodness, these folks can indeed produce miracles.

My latest walking-on-water moment came whilst I was reading an Austin American-Statesman article about Brother Tom DeLay, now the second-most powerful man in America, right after Dick Cheney. It was a familiar story to those of us who follow DeLay (who is, he has said, hell-bent to "stand up for a Biblical worldview in everything I do and everywhere I am.")

Brother Tom is given both to preaching holy propriety and running a political machine so shameless it would make Boss Tweed blush. Those who were privileged to see him in action during the last days of the peculiarly hideous process of redistricting the state of Texas know that ruthlessness and Christianity can be combined, no matter what Jesus had to say on the subject.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17010

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Hey

I just posted the same article. You beat me by three minutes. Good stuff anyway.

[DemoVet]

2. Once again, Tom DeLay gives pond scum a bad name

When he packs for the afterlife, I'd recommend bringing fireproof jammies.

[Wetzelbill]

3. Even more proof that Delay is a not only a hypocrite but he is

either absolutely shameless, batshit or maybe a bit of both.

[GainesT1958]

4. No one knows Tom Delay like Molly Ivins...

And because of that (speaking of waxing Biblically), one could say she knows the devil well when she sees him!:evilgrin:

B-)

[TexasEditor]

5. Most Texas GOP elected officials...

aren't dishonest, but just about all of them are OPPORTUNISTS. Most of them used to be Democrats, too, including Rick Perry, the current governor of Texas. Ol' Tom sees an OPPORTUNITY and he went for it. He's a good ho!