Ironically, DeLay described the Mariana Islands as a perfect example of Republican principles at work.  They conned young Chinese and other Asian girls to work there, then kept most of them behind barbed wires, but the prettier girls were forced into prostitution, and when they became pregnant, forced into abortions.  This was in the small print of their contracts.  Republican values in this centiry.

Delay’s diety is angry, judgemental and all powerful. That is why Delay is so comfortable with himself. Delay has not been enriching himself, he’s been raising money to fund the holy war. His goal is to form a Christian state, run by true believers and the rest of us can go to hell. Or perhaps he might do it personally depending upon what god tells him.

Christians love to claim persecution.  I say, give it to them!

Delay is a Christofascists.

I’d like to be filmed pushing the leg of Delay and all his ilk down the woodchipper ala Fargo only smoking a joint and maybe getting a blowjob while all true believers must watch but can’t act…one can dream can’t they?...this is more satisfying than just saying “hey fuck you too”...we gots to be funnier too!

I hope that the Delay situation is one that keeps on giving. It seems that once a month, one of his old cronies is in the news, and in trouble. Can his further indictments be that far away?

Mark Twain said, ” Loyalty to your country, always. Loyalty to your government, when they deserve it.”

Well then….

The old cliche said that money is the root of all evil. I reality, I suppose ;nothing is the root of all evil , but religion comes damned close. To those who believe in a deity ....no problem .....there may well be a divine entity , but he sure as hell is not religious in the human sense of possessing the only truth there ever was ” and if you don’t accept that , we’ll make your life a hell on earth , if we permit your continued existence .“Besides , we all know the absolute truth - “There is no god but Microsoft and Bill Gates is his prophet.” Just kidding ...where is that lightening coming from ??

Just wait untill DeLay has his sack squeezed, and you will hear the little pig squeal… if he survives long enough. Like most tough guys (bullys) they really are cowards.

“When the People are fearful and afraid of the Government, we have TYRANNY. When the Government is fearful and afraid of the People we have LIBERTY.”

And when the People and the Government WORK TOGETHER we’ll have SANITY, MATURITY, INTEGRITY.

I’m late to this party, just finished Bob’s piece.  To say that I am pleased w/Delay’s fall, is extremely understated, however… as nice as it is to finally get in a punch, it will soon be forgotten and removed from media unless the real monster is also battered.  The monster, is election reform, re: campaign finance.  The reason there is no seperation from the asses and the elephants is because they’re both addicted to money - and Delay is/was a very special middle man to all that money.  Just as corporations overpay CEOs, Americans, the stock holders of the government, over pay elected officals by allowing too much access to big money, because the things they are willing do for that fast-cash are the primary things that are destroying us.  Kick out the cash takers - bring America’s kids, our sons and daughters back home.  Maybe it’s time to take to the streets, like some of us did in the 60’s.

He is to become a lobbist isn`t he?so he is still in power as the lobbist control WashingtonSo isn`t he getting the last laugh. Why can`t the people see they are being used by so call religous right.My religion do`t use God for their own agenda.

fuck delay,he`s really small potatos,his day of reckoning is coming and he will need jesusespecially if he goes to huntsville.

Sam Harris rocks!

Here we go again.

What blasphemer’s (such as Mr. Scheer) don’t understand is how to read the Bible properly and to understand it’s meaning.

Tom DeLay was simply taking the “true” story behind “J.C’s” visit to the money-changers in the temple and translating it to “K” Street thereby leading to “Easy Street”.

Everyone knows that “J.C” was pissed because someone else was taking his “cut”.  “J.C”, a man of action, took the appropriate steps and acted violently (hammer-like) in order to ensure that all money would thereafter pass through his hands.

Jesus, on the other hand, “had no ideas”, was a “coward”, “didn’t support the troops”, and was known to have cavorted with prostitutes, the sick, and the poor.

God (take your choice and take your chances) help us all.

#6551 & #6462: 
We stopped going to church when we realized that the awesome power of/in the universe was being trivialized by dogma and the likes of power-driven pastors, priests, imams, rabbis and assorted religious gurus.  We preferred thinking for ourselves.  I guess that’s why we are sometimes stunned that some American sheeple actually believe the claptrap of the whackos of their chosen religion.  Want to raise a bigot?  Send him/her to church.  Then he/she can become a desciple to people like Delay, Bush and that ilk.

I didn’t know how bad this was. Thankyou Robert Sheer, again. This goes beyond “twisted”. Come on, America! Get these MOFOs out of office, NOW.

Well written but in this statement:——thundered the Texan pest-control entrepreneur who rose to become one of America’s most powerful politicians.——- I have to protest. Delay did
‘rise’ he descended.

I think I saw this episode on The Sopranos!!

But, serioulsy…I know Christians, Athiests and Realists alike that are planning the Demise of DeLay party as I type.

With regard to RObert’s last point, Delay no doubt believes, based on his experience in congress, that as long as he got some of Abramoff’s clients to donate to one of GOd’s slush funds, God’s got his back.

Many years ago, Blaise Pascal (15th Century French Philospher, Physicist and Mathematician) wrote:

“MEN NEVER DO EVIL SO CHEEFULLY AND SO COMPLETELY AS WHEN THEY DO SO FROM RELIGIOUS CONVICTION.”

This quote should be framed on the office walls of our Congressional Representatives - House and Senate alike to emphasize the importance of the separation of Church and State.

“When the People are fearful and afraid of the Government, we have TYRANNY.  When the Government is fearful and afraid of the People we have LIBERTY.”

I am afraid that with the exit of Delay, we will have NOT seen the last of him.  Certainly there will come a time when we will see his dyed-black-haired-head peeking around some Public Monument in Washington…..probably on “K” Street with the other Lobyists.

Mr. Delay is like OJ Simpson…has no recall and is innocent. He will turn up very soon as a high paid lobbyist with medical insurance and a fabulous pension paid for by us the taxpayers.

Where is the fruit in this individual? If a person is truely a believer, they will not need-in fact -will not desire to flaunt it as a defense, justifier, or reason for any behavior.
This individual has a flagrant, in-your-face-pride that smacks of the world. Shame on him-fact is he has NO shame-which clearly reveals any belief as being based upon that odf the world.Unfortunately, this is all too apparent in this administration. It’s about the heart-not the mouth.
These certainly are “end times”.

Perhaps one of the greatest selling points of Christianity is also one of it’s weakness- the belief that one will be rewarded by faith alone.
I know a lot of peope who talk Jesus all the time, have their homes full of Jesus but seem to think the commandments are thou SHALT lie, thou Shalt steal, thou Shalt get away with everything you can - because you will be forgiven as long as you believe.

MEGALOMANIA:

1. a mania for great or grandiose performance.

2. a delusional mental disorder that is marked by infantile feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur.

3. Tom DeLay

MEGALOMANIA:

1.  A mania for great or grandiose performance

2. A delusional mental disorder that is marked by infantile feelings of personl omnipotence and granduer.

3. Tom DeLay

My world taught me God’s love. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian family. I attended a well-known Christian University in the South. In the early 70’s, I heard chapel sermons where the Pope was referred to as “Bastard of the Catholic Church”, and I recall statements from my pastor that Martin Luther King, Jr. was surely a communist, and cruel jokes were told at the expense of African Americans.

Such information eventually gouged my psyche with enough conflicting information that I could risk questioning the familiar spiritual concepts which my childhood enviroment provided. I could begin the process of building new concepts which required rigorous inquiry and reason.

The developing human brain forms concepts by organizing incoming information into familiar and similar templates. Perception uses these templates to make sense of one’s personal environment. Unfamiliar information, if it cannot be assimilated into some similiar or familiar template, or develop into a new template, is simply rejected. 

As a child, my environment provided concepts of God, love, hell, sin and Satan. I learned to make sense of my world through perceptions of punishment and reward, good and evil. I was unconsciously ruled by a fear difficult to step out of, yet enormiously grateful that I did.

Critical thinking skills are urgently needed if Americans are going to step out of binding, familiar
patterns of thinking and behaving. Each of us must hold to account our own mental dogmas. It is not enough to judge and condemn the foolish words of others. We cannot arrive at a collective new shore with the same old talk. We must go farther.

Vigilant, conscious inquiry is essential to uncover the unconscious, assumptive content of our thoughts, beliefs, words and actions. Poking fun for sport—condemnation with no action—hides a lazy and fragile mind which is too insecure to step into its own unknown. Such a mind is content with the sound of its own unchecked nonsense.

The real action of Life unfolding around us all the time observable in the new sunrise, the flight of birds and each greening blade of grass changes and grows the whole universe while we sleep afraid—afraid to become new by shedding what no longer serves.

Each of us must learn to question, reason and think anew like Sam Harris. Then we must, like Sam Harris, speak and act in ways that make this world better.

DeLay belongs in a cartoon - he’s more caricature than human being. And I suppose that the same people who think that there really is a Daily Planet Newspaper and Clark Kent is really a reporter on it and he really changes into Superman in phone booths are the same people who think DeLay is Christianity’s poster boy.

As George Lakoff would say, he who frames the issue wins the debate.

Delay exhorts his base and others gullible enough to be “converted” to blame it on the anti-Christian conspiracy. The popular response appears to be that there is no “anti-Christian conspiracy”, and even if there were, the movment,under the circumstances, is justifiable and commendable.

I would like to see the issue framed in such a manner that Delay and his cohorts have to explain how his acts or failures to act are in accordance with the teachings of Christ.

While I applaud the fact that he says he intends to resign, you’ll notice that 1. he’s not actually done it and 2. he is a notorious liar.

You cannot dismiss him so easily, tho…at least not until he is doing time at Club Fed (hopefully a very long time).  This guy is merely going to fade from public view and work in the background to project his power, money and influence to further consolidate Republican power.  By stepping down, he avoids more ethics charges and direct embarressment of his party.  Make no mistake about it, he will still have all of his sticky fingers in all the wrong places.
Lastly, there is also a thing called a Presidential pardon…so he could get convicted and then get pardoned, because he has done so much to further Bush’s agenda for 5 years.

The ‘labor’ at the Marianna Islands were induced into working there - all girls - on the promise of a good job.  Most were kept in barracks behind barbed wire, in prison like conditions.
The more attractive girls were forced into prostitution, and forced into abortions when they became pregnant. DeLay said this was the perfect example of Republican values.  Hmmmm

Delay is just plain pathetic.  He is the very antithesis of what he espouses.  If he is an example of what Christian is all about, I want no part of his religion.

There always have been and always will be charlatans seeking power.  The only protection we have against them is a truly free press.  Delay, et al, is a symptom of the problem.  The problem is a press that does not speak truth.

Don’t rejoice so fast ; Delay lost his seat but not his power . As a lobbyist - which he is sure to become -he will continue to prostitute himself for high sums and keep spreading his satanic plans; too bad, but I fear we haven’t seen and felt the last of him .Peace .

I’ve often thought how nice it would be if our newscasters began our days with a really nice or funny srory.
Well, this AM, they did.  CNN’s interview with DeLay and Stephonopolis [sp?] simply had me roaring and practically shouting with laughter.  The unmitigated gall of this individual is unequaled by any but his former bossman, Bush.  His crimes having been proven imperious, he would still address the television cameras with lies that would make a Satan himself cringe!  If this isn’t a laugh I can’t imagine what it!

All funnies aside, the group of criminals running our country have used religion to their evil benefit since Bush was seated.  Delay’s nasty smirk about democrat’s lies and mud slinging ruining his career was an attempt, once again, to cover his own lack of comscience.  No one can convince me that the religion card hasn’t been played from day one.  It’s kept the ignorant’s majority support throughout any and all of their illegal abuses of power that was entrusted to them to be strictly carred out by the rule of our Constitution.  They’ve made a mockery of the most vitally important political document ever written.

I wrote a little poem several years ago after having been criticized by my boss lady:

You say you don’t like
the cut of my hair:
The sway of my hips,
ask me please,
How much I care_

Well, it’s more than probable that I may be criticized and ostracized because of my personal religious beliefs; however I am unbothered if so.

It is high time that a huge grave be dug in which religions from the world over be buried, never to be summoned again so long as mankind may survive the damage he’d done to Mother Earth.  The insane dogmas of religion is undeniably the primary cause of the sufferings of humankind.  Perdition is the one and only solution.

Religion has been blinders not only for Delay’s staff but also for the voters. Buckman and BTK (Bush Tortures and Kills) are symptoms of us. Its only when they have royal screwups that affect our pocket book that we complain.

Gonzales only brings these charges because there was so much rotten here that it was impossible to continue ignoring under the classification of homeland security.

The “Hammer” will still have floor and gym privileges in Congress.  Plus a magnificant pension and medical benefits.

Finally, this most odious of politicians has been hoisted by his own petard.

Let the Domino Effect Begin.

The resignation seems to indicate there is more coming down the pike - one must wonder whether this resignation will clean the unseen or lessen the media value.

As for the posturing of the Christian block…click the URL.

God truly works in mysterious ways!

What seems common, not only to Mr. Scheer’s article, but to the comments following it, is the facility with which the writers wag their fingers: Democrats, it would appear, have overmuscled index fingers and middle fingers, but not much else to offer the electorate. Howl as we will, we cannot win elections by whining about how Mr. Bush pronounces _nuclear_ . And if we _can_, then God help America.

We are well rid of The Hammer, as he liked to be thought of, but that mindset will be with us always.

Watch out, beloved friends, and don’t let the next one in. Of course, there are many already in, & we need to be rid of them.

If GWB were smart enough he would be one, but he is nothing if not stupid & he has to rely upon the Roves & the Cheneys to tell him how to be politically evil.

It’s not like he is still a little kid, stuffing lit firecrackers up tiny frog’s butts because it’s just “so much fun” seeing them explode…

GWB is NOT a nice person, just in case you had not noticed.

This is just too good. It doesn’t get any better than this. The Hammer wacks himself . Apparently the real God didn’t approve of his agenda and made him hit himself over the head with his own hammer.Tremendous!! Give them enough rope and watch them hang themselves. God bless America.
Now, if only Big dick cheney could misidentify
himself as a quail on his next “big game” roadside kill .

Yes, there is a certain satisfaction in watching their unravelling, until one thinks about the horrors they have done & the damage to our sweet planet that may never be undone…

These disgusting people, in order to make themselves far wealthier than could be imagined, have reduced our planet & our beloved country to what amounts to rubble. And most of them are too old to worry about the future.

Damn, I am glad that I believe in Re-incarnation. Welcome back.

Signed, Happy Hindu

I do not doubt for a minute that what you say is true. But I do NOT believe that the DeLay person was motivated by a belief in God; his motivation was in the belief in his bank account. I am certain of that. (In a really sadistic way, I hope he DOES believe in God. And that he sees himself cooking in Hell for all Eternity…) Garbage, but I kind of sort of hope he believes it…

Whoever, whatever. I don’t really care. I just hope that he will be consigned to Hell, forever. And I don’t even believe in Hell, but for the DeLay I will believe, just for a while.

And as for his “reasons for resigning”—“For the good of the Republicans”, whom he LOVES.

AND he plays golf, & is PROUD of the fact that he plays golf. PROUD OF THE FACT THAT HE PLAYS GOLF…??? Is this guy entirely sane?

I am glad that he is soon to be consigned to history & sickened by the fact that he ever EVER was part of our story…

The real issues are not that people like DeLay exist, and the sham “beliefs” they proffer. The real issue is that US culture and the electorate are stupid and degenerate enough to allow them to rise into high positions in government.

so he is gone, thats’ good, but not much. both houses of congress are still permeated with corruption and deceit. remember what happened when we got rid of his predecessor, Newt Gingrich. nothing at all, the corruption continued to increase. it will be the same now. I think that bush is a true believer, he doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together, but DeLay is a very smart man. he just uses religion to increase his own power. we have to somehow get the normal religious community to publicly reject the right wingers. I doubt that will happen, though. a significant of them are just in the business for power themselves.

The comments below by David are on target, except for one thing.  The ‘religion’ espoused by the fundamentalist-types is not religion, but political propaganda in support of bigotry (racial, gender, sex orientation, etc.), greed, lies, illegal war, possible murder, and as of today child pornography (see stories on the arrest of a Bush Administration official on child porn charges).

Comment #6454 by David Macaray on 4/05 at 12:34 am

Whether it’s fear of blowback, lack of conviction or just plain laziness, but liberals have given the Christian right too wide a berth.  We seem to have lacked the moral courage to—if not attack religion, at least defend ourselves against it.

For example, we should have pointed out long time ago that James Madison, one of the key framers of the constitution, was opposed to the hiring of a congressional chaplain, and to giving tax exempt status to churches.

End Quote.

Don’t cry about it DeLay; you did the crime(s) now do your time. It makes me sick to see someone so self-delusional about their lack of ethics, morals, decency, and honesty, yet try to maintain they have the high ground because they have been “saved”. What a shame America has to put up with such a bunch of rotten apples as DeLay, Bush, Rumsfield, Cheney, etc. Wake up true Christians and smell the coffee. You have been, are, and will continue to be used until you get a grip on reality. Take a little while to view these two films about your so called ‘friends’, or are you afraid of seeing the ugly TRUTH?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801

Now do you understand why informed Americans (of any faith) are so angry? See if you have the patriotism to watch this one:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3995.htm

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WIth religionists like DeLay and company, who needs Satan or the Antichrist? Good riddance!

OK, folks, listen up ... by the way, I speak with a bit of experience here, having been a born-again Christian at an age when I didn’t know any better (and which means I was raised a Fundamentalist Christian).

Born-again Fundamentalist Christians really, really do belief that God (a real live creature up in Heaven) is in control of the wealth distribution spigots. That means whatever they get, comes from God. (Believe me, they must have thought they were getting closer to Heaven when all that loot started rolling in!)

Of course, for the “brethren” who ain’t getting any, it’s the lesson of Job. God is testing you. Stay the course and you will be richly rewarded in Heaven, if not here.

Talk about vestial virgins! Christians want gold. Wealth is the sign of God’s favor. I know it is hard to believe from the outside, what with Jesus being their example and such ... but His example soothes the poor, “who we will always have with us.” (Can’t DO anything about those folks. They’ll get theirs later.)

DeLay’s faith in God (and pit bull loyality to Fundamentalist Christian Republicanism) has brought him so much success in life, he’s not about to start doubting now. It’s the same mentality as Bush #43’s. Belief in God (and loyality to other professed believers) has turned their lives into roaring successes. DeLay from being a bug exteminator. Bush from being a drunk. They have no psychological strength to question what is now their core belief.

And they were running our nation? And we let them? And Bush still is?

If you haven’t read Kevin Phillips, AMERICAN THEOCRACY, yet ... get it and read it. We the people had better get our country back before these idiots self-fulfil the prophecy of the Battle of Armageddon!

Ding Dong, DeLay Is Done! I put the Block Curse on this excellent example of Human Pesticide eight years ago, and finally it has come to fruition. Of course, many of us have cursed Tom DeLay, and we all should celebrate his demise as a victory.

Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners, let us give thanks for this small miracle. Praise be to the power and glory of truth! Every once in a while, it comes out like gangbusters.

The once terrifyingly toxic Tom DeLay now leaves Congress with his tail between his legs, exposed as a hypocrite, a whore, a liar and a crook.

The Hammer can’t get hard anymore.

Whether it’s fear of blowback, lack of conviction or just plain laziness, but liberals have given the Christian right too wide a berth.  We seem to have lacked the moral courage to—if not attack religion, at least defend ourselves against it.

For example, we should have pointed out long time ago that James Madison, one of the key framers of the constitution, was opposed to the hiring of a congressional chaplain, and to giving tax exempt status to churches.

We should have widely publicized the fact that Eric Rudolph, the infamous Atlanta Olympic bomber, was a religious fanatic who set out to murder people for God, because, as he himself stated, “abortion on demand was immoral.” 

Instead, we tip-toe around these religious yokels as if they somehow deserve our respect.  Enough already.

The unravelling of the knot of religios bigots that have controlled things for so long that they believed they could do all sorts of wrongs and get away with it.  It’s fun to watch.

Happy Birthday Bob.  Serena