Tom Delay

**Total Warrior X** · April 04, 2006, 01:52 AM

Delay finished, won't seek re-election

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12141276/

**Garbarsardar** · April 04, 2006, 02:23 AM

Why? Did he shot any guy in the face?

BTW (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/)

Frank Murkowki is the governor of Alaska, but from 1980 to 2002, he was a conservative Republican senator from Alaska. How conservative? His voting record earned him zero ratings from organized labor's AFL-CIO and the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and perfect 100s from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Conservative Union.

But as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Frank Murkowski became furious at the abusive sweatshop conditions endured by workers, overwhelmingly immigrants, in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, of which Saipan is the capital. So compelling was the case for change the Alaska Republican marshaled that in early 2000, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Murkowski worker reform bill.

But one man primarily stopped the U.S. House from even considering that worker-reform bill: then-House Republican Whip Tom DeLay.

According to law firm records recently made public, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, paid millions to stop reform and keep the status quo, met personally at least two dozen times with DeLay on the subject in one two-year period. The DeLay staff was often in daily contact with Abramoff. DeLay traveled with his family and staff over New Year's of 1997 on an Abramoff scholarship endowed by his client, the government of the territory, to the Marianas, where golf and snorkeling were enjoyed.DeLay fully approved of the working and living conditions. The Texan's salute to the owners and Abramoff's government clients was recorded by ABC-TV News: "You are a shining light for what is happening to the Republican Party, and you represent everything that is good about what we are trying to do in America and leading the world in the free-market system"

Later, DeLay would tell The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin that the low-wage, anti-union conditions of the Marianas constituted "a perfect petri dish of capitalism. It's like my Galapagos Island."

Contrast that with what then-Sen. Murkowski told me in a 1998 interview: "The last time we heard a justification that economic advances would be jeopardized if workers were treated properly was shortly before Appomattox."

So it seems that his dodgy finances were not the worst thing about him...
Good riddance!

**Legio XX Valeria Victrix** · April 04, 2006, 09:52 AM

Oh Tom DeLay, we hardly knew ye...

Wait, actually, we did, and you were a jackass.

Good riddance indeed!

**Cluny the Scourge** · April 04, 2006, 11:05 AM

As a European who has never heard of this man before, I have difficulty believing that DeLay is the real name of a real person, like a L77T way of describing his job as a conservative legislator. Even if it were a real name, no-one could possibly take him seriously as he sought votes for political office. There are jobs he just could not do - politics, or sex-guruing as another example.

**The Fish** · April 04, 2006, 11:07 AM

The mug shot where he was grinning like a mental patient is what did him in.

**Preacher** · April 04, 2006, 11:08 AM

There's something wholly unnatural about that man's grin.

**Last Roman** · April 04, 2006, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Total Warrior X

Delay finished, won't seek re-election

Oh Glorious Day!!!!!! No class today, I get to sleep in and I wake up to this! I don't think it could get much better (well other than winning the lottery and finding out Bush is resigning

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**Hub'ite** · April 04, 2006, 04:09 PM

:sign_stup

**Last Roman** · April 04, 2006, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by Hub'ite

:sign_stup

**Caudex Maximus** · April 04, 2006, 06:13 PM

As an avowed conservative, I'm thrilled to see DeLay leaving. He gives Republicans a bad name by his incredible political corruption.

**RZZZA** · April 04, 2006, 06:17 PM

Excellent...we got Delay, we got Abramoff...now we gotta get ROVE. That evil humpty dumpty reject, a conspiracy is in effect as we speak to destroy that (egg) shell of a man!

**crazyj** · April 05, 2006, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by Caudex Maximus

As an avowed conservative, I'm thrilled to see DeLay leaving. He gives Republicans a bad name by his incredible political corruption.

Ditto. He won't be missed.

**Hub'ite** · April 04, 2006, 06:34 PM

One corrupt politician out, a couple hundred to go.

I beat you to it Farnan.

It was my joke first.

**Farnan** · April 04, 2006, 06:34 PM

1 down, 536 to go in Washington, then we can start on the states...

Mines better though, so ha

**Guderian** · April 04, 2006, 08:37 PM

Bah, he should be in gaol.

**RZZZA** · April 04, 2006, 08:40 PM

I like how republican corruption is an issue now, seems like the democrats might be doing some things right. Or rather, right isnt the right word, effectively is a better word. Wouldn't it serve both sides to get Rove to leave politics? I think so anyway, I object to what I've seen of his work. Maybe Bush supporters will disagree here.

**John I Tzimisces** · April 04, 2006, 08:42 PM

Crooked politicians? Here? Preposterous!

**Total Warrior X** · April 04, 2006, 10:22 PM

Message for DeLay from a new NOFX song....

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

Too bad my disctict, where Delay is from, is a bible thumping war profiteer neo con district. We'll just elect another Kristian neocon pig.