Jim Hightower: "Tom DelayThinks he's God's man in Congress"

[DemBones DemBones]

Convinced that DeLay is someone we need to be seriously concerned about, Hightower gives a lot of insight into DeLay, details on his background, etc.


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"If these nicknames aren't chilling enough for you, here's how one of his own congressional constituents describes him: "Tom DeLay is a shiver looking for a spine to run up."

"By whatever name you choose, it's time for all of us to know just who this guy is, for DeLay has quietly become by far the most powerful man in Congress, with his own political muscle that rivals the White House itself. Not that DeLay Inc. and BushCo are at odds"

"For us, the importance of DeLay is that (1) he is even more rabidly right-wing than the Bushites; (2) he controls what the House does and doesn't do; (3) he has cobbled together a shadowy network of money, lobbying, and grass-roots troops that exerts unrelenting right-wing pressure on the entire Republican agenda (and therefore on the country's agenda); and (4) he intends to be there long after W. is gone. On the other hand, the more America knows of DeLay, the better off we are, for he is not merely an ideological extremist -- he's nutty, frightening, and butt-ugly to boot. "

more. . .

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=43&ItemID=4703

[jmaier]

1. I think that

DU, MoveOn and all the candidate campaigns should launch an anti-Delay war and get 200% behind his democratic challenger. Assuming there is one.

While maybe we can't beat him. If he has to spend more time and money running for reelection than he had planned on that will keep him out of Washington some and limit his agenda for the next congress.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. And supporting democratic candidates for the House and Senate. We

can't change a lot with just a change of the Executive Branch. Regime change without prisoners.

[comradebillyboy]

2. more like satans man

or even the anti-christ himself.

[0007]

3. I indeed enjoy Jim Hightower -

Where did Ranger George go" is another good one.

[Martin Eden]

5. Be afraid. Be very afraid...

...when a wingnut like Delay is most powerful man in Congress:

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Tom is eaten up with Christian zealotry, recognizing no separation between his rigid fundamentalist extremism and his powerful public position. He openly declares himself sent by God to "stand up for a biblical worldview in everything I do and everywhere I am." For him, politics is not a battle over policy, but a "battle of souls." He says that he seeks a "God-centered" nation that, among other things, would discriminate against homosexuals, curb contraception, outlaw abortion, end the separation of church and state, and post the Ten Commandments in every school (even though Tom has violated more than a few of the Ten himself).

He sees the world through apocalyptic eyes, declaring, for example, that youth violence is caused by day care, the teaching of evolution, and "working mothers taking birth-control pills." The horror of the shootings at Columbine are easily explained, he says, "because our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial mud."

He asserts that "our nation will only be healed through a rebirth of religious conviction and moral certitude." When it was suggested that his ambition for a Christian state was somewhere between discomforting and terrifying to most Americans, DeLay gave a messianic sigh and said: "People hate the messenger. That's why they killed Christ." Even more messianically, he has railed against those who challenge his political applications of Christian absolutism: "If I wasn't walking with the Lord, I would have been destroyed."

Among his overt pushes for Christian statism is his backing of bills to allow religious groups to tap their tax-exempt bank accounts for campaign contributions and lobbying funds, and to endorse political candidates. He's also the leading political force in the Christian Zionist movement

[Myra]

6. "Tom DeLay is a shiver looking for a spine to run up."

What a perfect description!

[candy331]

7. I have come to believe that

the people who holler the loudest have the most to hide. Reminds me of the story in the Bible when a woman was brought to Jesus by good upstanding men of the community, stalwart God fearers of course, for her less than virtuous ways (of course no men were brought who she had entertained)and they were looking for Jesus to comdemn her but got the shock of their lives when he said "Let him that has no sin cast the first stone".

Moral of the story, beware of Loud Christian stone throwers and check into their skeleton closets for hidden skeletons covered over by LOUD, obnoxious behavior.. The last 2 LOUD stone throwers of note were Limbaugh and Thurmond.


"Peace"

[priller]

8. Delay makes all kinds of loony statements

Another of my favorites: "Nothing is more important in the face of war than cutting taxes."

[Manix]

9. A frightening, dangerous, evil man!!

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