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Tom "The Bug Man" DeLay

If Terri Schiavo had been shot

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said "the men responsible for this" will be called to account.

The Florida woman, who suffered severe brain damage after a heart attack 15 years ago, died Thursday. The feeding tube that had been keeping her alive was removed with a judge's approval on March 18.

DeLay appeared to condemn judges who at both the state and federal level declined to order that Schiavo be kept alive artificially.

"This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change," the Texas Republican said. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another." LINK


The most powerful man in the U.S. Congress, Majority Whip Rep. Tom DeLay (R,Texas) spearheaded the congressional effort to interfere in the Schiavo case after a Republican strategist had written a confidential memo that was circulated to the Republican members of Congress: “The pro-life base will be excited that the Senate is debating this important issue…This is a great political issue…and this is a tough issue for Democrats.”

In a press conference surrounded by his Republican colleagues, DeLay denounced Schiavo’s husband, as well as state court judges, for committing what he called “an act of barbarism” in removing the feeding tube from Terri Schiavo.

But what DeLay advocated for Schiavo, he did not espouse for his own father.
Like Terri Schiavo, DeLay’s father in 1988 was also severely brain-damaged, incapable of surviving without medical assistance. Both had similarly expressed a desire to be spared from being kept alive by artificial means. Like Terri Schiavo, DeLay’s father also did not have a living will.

But Tom DeLay had no reservations in 1988 about joining in his family’s unanimous consensus to let his father die.

“Tom knew – we all knew – his father wouldn’t have wanted to live that way,” recalled Maxine DeLay, the Majority Whip’s 81-year-old widowed mother. --snip--

“The bottom line is the gun lobby is too important a constituency to the Republican Party for them to do anything,” observed Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, a gun control advocacy group.

“The sad reality is if Terri Schiavo had been shot, the administration would not have lifted a finger to help her,” she said. LINK

Tom DeLay is a cockroach!




Tom DeLay is a slug!



Tom DeLay is a snake!



Why are all of those mean editorial cartoonists attacking poor Tommy?

So little time, so many scandals...

The Westar Scandal

In 2002, executives at Kansas energy company Westar wrote a memo outlining how they could purchase a "seat at the table" with $56,500 in contributions to political committees associated with Tom DeLay and the GOP. DeLay was later admonished by the House Ethics Committee for creating the appearance of impropriety.

The House Medicare Vote Bribery Scandal

Tom DeLay and the Republican leadership kept open the vote for the Medicare bill for three hours -- long past the 15 minutes specified in House procedures -- in order to pressure Republicans to vote for the bill. Rep. Nick Smith (R-MI) said GOP leaders offered "bribes and special deals," leading to an investigation by the Ethics Committee, which admonished DeLay.

The Texas Redistricting Scandal

When DeLay and his fellow Republicans were redrawing the Congressional districts in Texas to push Democrats out of the House, he used the Federal Aviation Administration to try and track a plane containing Democratic state legislators. The House Ethics Committee investigated DeLay's actions and once again admonished him.

The K Street Scandal

Tom DeLay has pushed lobbying firms to deny jobs to Democrats, and hire only Republicans, resulting in another Ethics Committee admonishment for inappropriately pushing a lobbying firm to hire a former GOP congressman. DeLay has pressured GOP lobbyists to make contributions to Republican candidates and the RNC.

The TRMPAC Scandal

In Texas, it's illegal for corporations to make donations to fund political campaigns. So Tom DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority political action committee (TRMPAC) took $190,000 in corporate contributions and funneled them to the RNC, which then donated exactly $190,000 to TRMPAC-supported candidates. DeLay and TRMPAC are currently under investigation by a grand jury.

The Travel Scandal

An investigation by the Justice Department showed that Tom DeLay accepted a trip financed by the Korea-U.S. Exchange Council, breaking House rules that prohibit accepting travel expenses from "a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal."

The Ethics Committee Scandal

Knowing that he faced investigation for a growing pile of scandals, Tom DeLay and the GOP House leadership purged the Ethics Committee of Republicans -- including Chairman Joel Hefley (R-CO) -- who weren't willing to overlook charges against DeLay, replacing them with members loyal to the leadership. They then changed the Committee rules to make it more difficult to begin investigations. Democrats on the Committee have refused to take any action in protest until the rules are restored.

What a piece of work is Tom "The Bug Man" DeLay!

A trained Pest Exterminator calling for the extermination of judges.

There ought to be a law...

Oops! There is.



Will no one rid me of this meddlesome pest?