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"God has spoken to me. I listen to God, and what I've heard is that I'm supposed to devote myself to rebuilding the conservative base of the Republican Party, and I think we shouldn’t be underestimated."

-- Tom DeLay

Maybe he's channeling Jerry Falwell. I just wish God would tell him to fuck off already.

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"Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay is like being called ugly by a frog."

-- District Attorney Ronnie Earle

Mr. Earle, of course, is the man who got the indictments on Congressman Tom DeLay. That juicy quote came from a nice background piece in The Washington Post by Juliet Eilperin and Mark Leibovich titled "In Texas, The Hammer Runs Into an Anvil". The man is known as a maverick and idealist, who has made it something of a mission in his life to root out bad money in politics, quoted on film:

"The root of all evil truly is money.... People talk about how money is the mother's milk of politics. Well, it's the devil's brew. And what we've got to do, we've got to turn off the tap."

In uber-capitalist America, that may not play so well, and the DeLay defense is apparently looking to undermine the charges by attacking the prosecutor. What is most worrisome in this regard, though, is the fact that Mr. Earle does... yoga! Yoga may be fine in wine-cooler sipping regions of this country, but it does not play well in Texas:

"It doesn't help that Earle is an avid practitioner of yoga, which renders him, to say the least, exotic among Texas politicians -- at least in his willingness to admit it."

Monk winced when he read about this yoga practice. The DeLay case promises to be a close one, indeed!

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"Tom DeLay was like Tito in Yugoslavia," said James A. Thurber, a professor of government at American University. "He ruled with fear and also resources to reward people. Now without DeLay, the House will be balkanized."

-- Dan Balz for The Washington Post

The other shoe finally drops on our Congressman Tom DeLay. The Hammer is a maximalist political player, and he is finally being challenged for being on the wrong side of the line, as he steps down from his position as House Majority Leader under indictment for consipiracy to violate Texas' campaign laws.

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Entries tagged with tom delay

God Chats with DeLay

God Chats with DeLay

Of Ronnie Earle

Of Ronnie Earle

The Texas Two-Step: The Seduction of Tom DeLay

The Texas Two-Step: The Seduction of Tom DeLay

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