Quotes from Tom Delay (these are the type of people we are fighting....)

[The Straight Story]

Oh so Quotable: Tommy boy's views are best demonstrated by his own words. Here there is a wealth of disgusting comments. We've chosen some gems.

Tom on Women: "A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability."-Tom DeLay, in a radio interview, Feb. 10, 2004

Tom on Pesticides: "Chemical pesticides are ‘harmless’ and foods raised without them might even be more carcinogenic."--Letter to a Constituent 1-31-92.

Tom on Pollution: "It has never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people."
--Quoted in Houston Chronicle 10-28-90.

Tom on not serving in Vietnam: "So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself." --explaining at the 1988 GOP convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War.

Tom on Hurricane Katrina: "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" – to three young hurricane evacuees at the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 9, 2005.

Tom on violence: "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills." – on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999.

Tom on America: "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power." –explaining why America must topple Saddam Hussein in 2002, Fox News.

Tom on the military: "Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt." – referring to US military action in Kosovo May 5, 1999.


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These people are nuts....

[indepat]

1. But perhaps not as nuts as the nut who keep returning his ilk to office?