DeLay's Easter Fairy Tale

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In today's Houston Chronicle, DeLay uses these cute words to describe Chris Bell, Democratic candidate for governor of Texas: preening, dishonest, obsessive, indulgent in self flattery, egotistic, pathological.

Tom, Tom, Tom - I think you are so used to thinking these things about yourself that they are spilling out of your head, out of your mouth and you are accidentally using them to characterize other perfectly fine people!

On Easter Sunday! A fairy tale for Easter. A supposedly deeply Christian man is name-calling on Easter Sunday. Imagine that. Plus, it irritates me that he is whipping out the "U.S. REP Tom DeLay" moniker when he wants to write a LTE to the Chronicle, when in reality he is cutting and running and leaving TX-22 without representation in Congress.

http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/3795201.html


DeLay responds to Bell

Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

CHRIS Bell's April 9 Outlook article, "WITHOUT DELAY / Next, fix ethics mess in Texas / Add reform to special session call," is a case study in exactly why he lost his seat in Congress last year and why he has no chance of winning his race for governor this year. Like Bell, his op-ed was preening, dishonest and disturbingly obsessed with, well, me.

First of all, he incorrectly — and egotistically — asserted that he somehow played a role in my decision to leave Congress. Unless he is admitting to unethical and illegal coordination with Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, no unemployed liberal peacock (even one as indulgent in self-flattery as he is) had anything to do with my decision.

Secondly, Bell conveniently never mentioned that it was he — not I — who was cited by the ethics committee as having broken House rules.

And finally Bell's entire op-ed, while ostensibly about legislative priorities for the upcoming session, was really all about me. He has had a psychologically curious fixation on me ever since his Democratic constituents threw him out of office in an embarrassing primary defeat in 2004.

Texans voting for governor this November deserve a campaign that's about ideas, but so far they're not getting that from the Democratic nominee. Bell would like Texans to think he's somehow running against me, but, as usual, he's just running his mouth.

U.S. REP. TOM DELAY Sugar Land

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1. I usually try to abstain, but... OMG!

Project much, Tom? :rofl:

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2. Thats the repuke way, accuse the other side of being just as bad or

worse then you are. Anyone that would take the word of a convicted theif is a pretty sorry sob. Whats next tommy boy?? The dems made you steal?

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3. Is there a link, please! nt

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5. added link above, and here also

http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/3795201.html

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6. Many Thanks!

:pals:

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4. I've met Chris Bell several times and he is THE nicest guy

Not like any sort of politician type personality at all. It's like talking with your neighbor. Plus, he is very smart with total command of the issues. He's never stumped when asked questions about anything. And, he's funny and very passionate and inspiring on the campaign trail. Knowing these things about Chris makes DeLay's comments even all the more pathetic.

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7. link to Chris Bell's original op-ed piece about DeLay

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/3779961.html

For those of you who don't know this about Chris Bell, the article ends with this:

Bell was the Houston Democratic congressman who filed the successful ethics complaint against then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay in June 2004. He is now the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. His Web site is www.ChrisBell.com.

There is no love lost between Chris Bell and Tom DeLay!

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8. I betcha there are a HELL of a lot of us rooting for Mr. Bell down there.

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9. Great! Bell has a real chance of beating Rick Perry in November

It will be tough, though. You can follow the campaign here: http://www.chrisbell.com/

You might want to bookmark the site. There's a blog which can get fun, sometimes when there are trolls! I post there sometimes (on there as muse, just like here. )

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10. I'll try to keep an eye on it. Go, Chris Bell.