DeLay Gives Secrets of His Success – and Fall

[babylonsister]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3161.html

DeLay Gives Secrets of His Success – and Fall

By: Mike Allen
March 15, 2007 02:53 PM EST


Guess the writer: "Liberals blaming me for corruption in Washington is like the KKK blaming Martin Luther King, Jr. for an epidemic of burning crosses." It's Tom DeLay – unrepentant, but hoping to give history a hand by telling his side of one of the most astonishing rise-and-fall stories in American politics.

His book, out Monday, is called "No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight." He wrote it with Stephen Mansfield, a former Texas pastor whose works include the New York Times bestseller "The Faith of George W. Bush."

DeLay, who bitterly resigned from Congress last year in the wake of an criminal indictment on campaign finance charges and has made little secret he has scores to settle, claims that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, now a potential presidential candidate, initially "chewed me out" for even considering calling for former President Bill Clinton to resign, but later "saw the wisdom of our plan and got onboard." Other eye-opening passages in the book, which can be polished off in a couple of hours and was obtained by Politico:

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "Who cares what an outed corrupt republicon cronies says?" - Commander AWOL

"He is corrupted toast. I would only read his book if he still had the power to keep stealing from America and sending scads of public payola to my other corrupt republicon cronies."

- Commander AWOL Crony Bush

[tanyev]

2. I'm not really following that analogy.

[theoldman]

3. The secret of DeLays success was to screw everybody.

His downfall was that he screwed everybody.

[MidwestTransplant]

4. Here are his secrets

Success: Be a shit head and criminal
Fall: Get caught being the above.