DeLay to his pastor: God wanted me to get out of this race.

[DeepModem Mom]

WP op-ed: Our Pious Babylon
By Harold Meyerson
Thursday, April 6, 2006; Page A29

Let us not think that Tom DeLay's decision not to seek reelection was prompted by merely temporal concerns. The Rev. Rick Scarborough, DeLay's sometime pastor, told the New York Times that The Hammer confided in him last Saturday that "God wanted him to get out of that race."

DeLay's apparently is the most obliging of Lords. He stuck with the embattled incumbent long enough for DeLay to give a "Texas whuppin' " to those infidels who ran against him in the Republican primary, only to counsel withdrawal when the polling made clear that a Democrat could still beat The Hammer in the fall.

The broader question is whether such a deity still rules in Washington. As gods go, He was surely more ethically flexible than most. Lesser gods might frown upon bribery, fraud, greed and the abrogation of the democratic process, but this one was willing to overlook such trifles if they strengthened the Republicans' hold on the House and were performed in a spirit of piety....

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Is it even possible, in the age of DeLay and Karl Rove and the K Street Project, to satirize Washington? Doesn't reality outrun apprehension here and exceed the satirical imagination?...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040501956.html

[seabeyond]

1. God wanted me to get out .... after taking all the campaign money

to pay for the attorneys he is going to need for all the corruption and crime he committed over the years.....

ya.... sounds like god :sarcasm:

[DFW]

2. DeLay's God

...is nothing if not fiscally prudent......

[C_U_L8R]

3. These people pray so much for good reason....

they need to.

[salin]

4. AND God wanted me to be vindictive enough to stay in the race

to prevent folks with the audacity to challenge me from replacing me.... and God wanted me to fleece campaign donors, since they wouldn't directly give to my legal fund... :eyes:

[Lochloosa]

5. I found a pic of delay's God

[cboy4]

6. Now when DeLame says "God," does he mean John McCain? I'm confused

whether McCain thinks he's God now, or if he's "simply" a right wing christian extremist with all of his sucking up to Jerry Falwell. :shrug:

[AllegroRondo]

7. Rove told him to leave?

I'll buy that.