Dumbing Down DeLay
March 18th, 2007 at 10:42 am
You know, maybe we overestimated Tom DeLay. The blunted Hammer was on Meet the Press this morning. He is trying to make a comeback these days with a new book called “No Retreat and No Surrender.” DeLay participated in a roundtable on Iraq. His fellow panelists included retired admiral now-congressman Joe Sestak and former Defense Policy Analyst and prince of darkness Richard Perle. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, what was clear about the former majority leader is “what a maroon, what an ignoranimous” he is.
Maybe it was all but inevitable that he was destined for such a spectacular fall. He was in over his head from the very beginning. Oddly enough, the one personal shortcoming DeLay admitted to in the New York Times today is largely the reason that a man with such limited computing power went as far as he did. “… my flaw is that I can sometimes be aggressive, even mean,” he said.
About all Tommy could muster on Tim Russert’s show were platitudes and talking points. “We are at war and when you are at war you have to fight that war to win,” sounds fairly lame against folks who have actual military experience and the capability to reason.
“I think if we keep our eye on the ball and if we put terrorists in a cell or a cemetery no matter where we find then, we are winning.”
The only problem Tom is that we are making ‘em faster than we can kill ‘em. So much for the “war on terra” as DeLay likes to say.
DeLay also criticized recent protests against the war. “It is my opinion that when you go to war we ought to all come together…. Those are not patriots that call for the impeachment of the commander and chief… [You are] aiding and abetting the enemy by calling for withdrawal.”
This is DeLay in his new-found role: Lemming tour guide. “Just stay in line. Keep on walking. Pay no attention to that cliff.”
In keeping with his book’s “message” DeLay kept repeating that anyone who advocates a timeline for withdrawal is a quitter. “Surrender does not bring security. This is hard so I want to surrender.”
This from a man who tried to sneak away from his congressional race because he wasn’t guaranteed a win. Almost a year ago, DeLay told Time Magazine that, after realizing he could lose, he decided to quit the race because he “didn’t want to risk the seat.”
March 18th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
What do Tom DeLay, George W. and this poem all have in common? All three stink!
Perhaps a Fool
Perhaps a W fool is like resting in place.
A rest room shelter from reality.
He exists to give himself comfort.
He is there in his own abnormality.
And in your times of trouble,
When he is most like a drone.
The memory of this fool will bring you to groan!
Perhaps a W fool is like a cracked window.
Perhaps a jammed tissue door.
He invites you to come closer.
You don’t want to anymore.
And even if you seem to lose your mind,
And he want you for his bidding to do.
The memory of this fool will show he’s through!
Oh, a W fool to some is like a clod.
To some as slippery as a prune peel.
For some a diarrhea misery reliving.
For some a way far from ideal.
And some say a W fool is just being stuck,
And some say can’t go,
And some say a W fool is cramping pain,
And some say he ain’t nothing about to crow!
Perhaps a W fool is like the sewer.
Full of odor, full of waste.
Like a futile fire of fresh cow chips,
Or betrayal when in him trust is placed.
If a W fool should seem forever to last,
And all my fondest dreams do come true.
By January, 2009, this W fool we’ll gladly bid adieu -
And flush him with all his pooh!
With apologies to John Denver. Now if you’ll excuse me, I really, really have to go!
Hubert Wilson
April 28th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Dear Mr. DeLay:
I live in Corpus Christi, TX. where you attended Parkdale Baptist Church.
My associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church, performed the wedding of your brother, Randy, at Jacksonwoods Presbyterian Church in Corpus Christi.
My son was murdered in Houston after having been on a Halliburton-Dresser boat at South Shore Harbor Marina. The next morning my former church member’s grandson, head of counter-terrorism for the FBI died in Dallas.
My son’s burned out car was found near the James R. Bath related Ellington Field. After I scoured the car at the police impound lot near downtown Houston I was taken to Mingalone’s Restaurant in the Bayou Plaza Center developed by your friends Abramoff and Cordish.
Will you grant me a real-time interview on-line? Will you allow it to be filmed? I want to see a man in action who promises he will not surrender and will not retreat under any circumstances. I would like to let the world see it, too.
http://www.patrickcarr.blogspot.com
Sincerely
William H. Carr