I hadn't noticed before that DeLay's name in all caps is

DELAY

which I find prophetic.
sidereal | Email | Homepage | 09.05.03 - 8:40 pm | #

The man is not only a fascist asshole, but he's completely blind to it. He sees a little criticism, and projects it as total disloyalty, as evil, as anger, as rage.

Yet he can't see it in himself, even after this whole mess he started with the Texas redistricting.

This is what we call the "Banality of Evil."
Dana Blankenhorn | Email | Homepage | 09.05.03 - 8:52 pm | #

Tom Delay is one of Bush's Nazgul (from Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" series), or maybe he's one of Saruman's Uruk-hai -- evil orcs with human DNA.

All I can say is "Bring it on, Delay!" You'll help Dean reach his goals this 3rd QTR.
Terry from Killingly, CT | Email | Homepage | 09.05.03 - 9:30 pm | #

GO, DELAY, GO!

(read literally, that is kinda funny -- but come on, Tom, beat on us all month, pretty please?)
Scott Moore | Email | Homepage | 09.05.03 - 9:48 pm | #

Thinking ahead, how would the Republican leadership (DeLay, et. al.) react to a Dean Administration? As long as the Republicans control congress they will not allow much, if any, of a Dean Agenda to pass. If we are to truly "take our country back" we need to take back our Congress, both Houses. The Presidency alone is not enough. After Dean secures the nomination, I'm wondering if the vast grassroots network being built today can be used to not only get Dean elected, but to get enough Democrats elected to take back both Houses. And not just any Democrats, but DEAN Democrats. We need to think big!
Andy | Email | Homepage | 09.06.03 - 12:50 am | #

One step at a time, Andy
psdem | Email | Homepage | 09.06.03 - 1:18 am | #

noticed all of my favorite blogspot blogs were down. wha happen?
niner | Email | Homepage | 09.06.03 - 2:33 pm | #

Tom Delay is a despicable asshole. Try to keep from puking after reading his opinion of the bailing of Bush's Judge appointee:

Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader, said Mr. Estrada was the victim of a "political hate crime."
RM NYC | Email | Homepage | 09.06.03 - 4:19 pm | #

RM: Yeah, that was a special moment at the toilet for me, too.
Scott Moore | Email | Homepage | 09.06.03 - 5:25 pm | #

DELAY prefers Resident Bush's temperament to Dean's? Resident Bush has a temperament that makes me want to write Barbara Bush and ask her how she feels now, today, about having brought up such a boorish bully who has put his family's wealth above his country and his family's corporation friends above the United Nations.
Fran in Seattle | Email | Homepage | 09.06.03 - 6:59 pm | #

Losing control of Congress is what really scares them. Howard Dean is the right man at the right time but if he hadn't appeared so suddenly they still know Bush is on his way out.
This is what is behind redistricting. America needs to know what is going on in Texas. The opposition should be loud on this scandal. I am so glad the Dems in Texas are standing up to this.
OT It looks like the repugs don't want Lieberman either.
Gerald | Email | Homepage | 09.06.03 - 10:56 pm | #

Class and Culture? CLASS AND CULTURE?????
Cricket | Email | Homepage | 09.07.03 - 10:50 am | #

Comparing temperaments, it sounds like he's shopping around for new puppy. One with class and culture. It could still be referred to as POTUS (Puppy of the United States). But the one he's got won't hunt, as they say in Texas.

I feel sorry for his dog.
tencentlife | Email | Homepage | 09.08.03 - 12:18 pm | #

Careful here guys. In the rush to trash DeLay--who is an absolute monster--no doubt about it, we have to listen for what's coming next from the GOP attack machine. They started with "Dean is McGovern" but already realized that won't completely work in the face of Dean's record as a budget balancer and his reasonable, and not orthodox position on guns--so they're going ad hominem talking about Dean's "temperment" something our own DLC is only too glad to bolster. "He doesn't have the temperment to be president"will be the GOP's way to try and deligitimize Dean's scorn of Bushes failures. And here we need to urge Dean to us that dry wit of his to diffuse that attack. Just as Jim Baker famously told Reagan to "smile" before his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, we need to get Dean to be funny as well as angry sounding. It will flush this attempt by the GOP to make Dean seem "alien" which is always the right wing's goal with a Dem opponent.
James Kennelly | Email | Homepage | 09.08.03 - 3:36 pm | #