Wasn't it DeLay who yelled "I AM the Government" in a restaurant

[karlrschneider]

last year about some incident over a cigar or something? (Search is down, sorry if this has been discussed recently)...

[Hobarticus]

1. Yes it was...now he's yelling "I am the defendant!" n/t

[rodeodance]

3. yup-that was the man!

[Kikosexy2]

4. I am..

BIG! IT'S THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL!--the delusional Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

[Bucky]

12. Now he's just the Congressman from Reliant Energy

As seen on TV!!

[karlrschneider]

6. Heh...yeah

;-)

[tanyev]

2. Oh, yeah, I remember reading that.

Wasn't it on some website where waiters/waitresses could complain about customers. I think a waitperson told him he couldn't smoke in the restaurant.

[ck4829]

Yes, he did

The dude is seriously insane, he needs to be put away.

[leftchick]

5. He sure did! Here is a link....

<snip>

The story I heard goes like this: Tom DeLay lights up a stogie in a restaurant, and a waiter comes over and says, "I'm sorry, sir, but this is a government building, and no smoking is permitted." To which Mr. DeLay, House majority leader extraordinaire, if I may resort to Freedom English in honor of Tom's until now secret admiration of Gustave Flaubert, barks, "I am the government."

http://www.counterpunch.org/brown06282003.html

and a revised version...

<snip>

Khandker: "I'm sorry, sir, but this is a federal building, and it's against the law of the federal government."

DeLay: "I am the federal government."

But Khandker stood his ground, and DeLay and several cigar-chomping compatriots left for the smoke-filled Caucus Room before the cheesecake course.

Yesterday, Khandker declined to comment, and DeLay spokesman Stuart Roy told us that what his boss really said was, "I'm with the federal government."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A57541-2003May14¬Found=true

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Yes.. he was looking for 'L'etat, c'est moi', but being drunk and not

speaking French, settled for his own version.

[jeff30997]

8. What a humble man!

Pretentious crook !

[WI_DEM]

9. he was right for once, he does represent the current government

quite well. They all should be indicted.

[jeff30997]

10. So true.

[Shakespeare]

11. Yes, and we're waiting for Grover Norquist to drag him into the bathroom..

...and drown him in the bathtub.

(thanks to VelmaD awhile back for providing that hilarious anecdote)

[Zynx]

13. "I AM the Senate"- Palpatine from Star Wars

Delay is almost comically evil.