DeLay blares revamped message with new bully pulpits
How to save yourself $26; DeLay’s unrepentant tale
WASHINGTON ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ Largely quiet since resigning from Congress last summer under indictment, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is back with a vengeance. The Republican from Sugar Land is popping up in bookstores, on the Internet and the airwaves with a conservative call to arms: Democrats are hurtling America down the wrong track, but Republicans won’t defeat them until they learn to better articulate their message…. In a book published this week, No Retreat, No Surrender: One American’s Fight, DeLay undertakes his latest from-the-sidelines effort to retain influence and shape his party…. And DeLay, who kept a relatively low media profile on Capitol Hill, suddenly is popping up on the Sunday and morning news shows and opining on matters big and small on the blog he launched last year.
It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before one of the GOP’s all-time most arrogant ideologues slithered back into the public eye, complete with slime trail. And why not? The man has a book to sell. Not surprisingly, there are enough drooling Reaganauts and Dubya sycophants left out there still hanging on DeLay’s every thought, word, and deed to make the former DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener a very wealthy I-got-mine, you-get-yours Conservative.
I’d like to say that I’m willing to read DeLay’s book and then offer an erudite review of it, but I’d sooner be caught in flagrante delicto in a tub of raspberry pudding with Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. The day any of my hard-earned disposable income winds up in Tom DeLay’s wallet is the day I appear on Broadway in drag with Rudy Giuliani.
Of course, it’s not as if DeLay has anything to offer but the same tired, arrogant, and self-serving rants that characterized his 22-year reign of terror (and abject corruption) while representing the Sugar Land and Clear Lake areas (sadly, I live in District 22, and DeLay was my Congressman…and yes, just saying that make me want to vomit). If you’re truly interested in Delay’s literary offering, I’d suggest you read Cragg Hines’ review and keep the $26 safely tucked in your wallet.
Surely confession plays some role in Tom DeLay’s brand of hyper-religiosity. If so, there’s faint testimony to the principle as regards politics in the former House majority leader’s self-serving new book, No Retreat, No Surrender.
DeLay has a lot to be sorry for. As he says not quite half-way through the book, “In short, I had become a self-centered jerk.” Fighting against almost all the external evidence, DeLay would have us believe there came a point when that wasn’t the case. On that basis the book belongs in the “new fiction” display.
Overall, DeLay offers himself up for canonization in the Church of St. Ronald the Reagan as a result of suffering the slings and arrows of persecution from the devilish Democratic troika of Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel and Patrick Kennedy. Of the three, only Emanuel is anywhere near DeLay’s league.
Co-starring roles as Beelzebub and Lucifer are assigned to District Attorney Ronnie Earl of Austin, who had the temerity to indict DeLay on state charges related to campaign fund raising, and to former Rep. Chris Bell, D-Houston, who broke (thankfully) what our author describes as “the seven-year gentlemen’s agreement” not to use ethics charges as “political weapons.” Truth and justice, you’ll note, are not allowed to rear their ugly heads in DeLay’s rendering of his role in the world.
Of course, the real fun has yet to begin. DeLay is still facing felony money-laundering charges in Travis County. If there’s any justice, DeLay will be someone’s b—-h soon, courtesy of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Perhaps he can hold a book signing at the Walls Unit in Huntsville.
DeLay is clearly still arrogant enough to believe that Americans actually care about what he has to say…and I suppose some still do. As a man who has played fast and loose with the House rules of ethics while presenting himself as a decent, honorable man of God, I can’t see where Tom DeLay has ANY credibility left, or anything positive to offer. If he had any decency at all, he’d recognize that his time is past and his voice is that of the corrupt, self-interested, self-absorbed GOP…not a label or a reputation the party should be in any hurry to see publicized any more than it already has been.
Tom DeLay has already won a DUMB@$$ AWARD. Truth be told, DeLay could have averaged one a week over the course of five years, but after one or two, what’s the point? DeLay has already firmly established himself as an arrogant, conceited, intolerant, hyper-religious DUMB@$$. All his book is really going to do is to cement that reputation and put it in writing.
Nice job, eh??
What would Jesus do? I’m not certain, but I think it involves playing Russian Roulette.
