Tom DeLay is going to announce this morning that he is resigning from Congress. But gosh, I thought God himself had appointed DeLay to "represent righteousness in government"? If that's true - and DeLay didn't deny it when Scarborough said it - wouldn't it be blasphemy to refuse to carry out the role God appointed him for? Ah, what tangled webs of absurdity are weaved by huckster manipulating religion for political gain. Here's my favorite part of the article:
"He has served our nation with integrity and honor," said Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, who succeeded DeLay in his leadership post earlier this year.
To paraphrase the great Inigo Montoya - I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.
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The Dallas Morning News has an excellent editorial responding to Tom DeLay's ridiculous performance at the "War on Christians" conference in Washington DC this we
No, I'm not describing Joe Lieberman (although, hopefully, I will be). I'm talking about Tom DeLay. Says one of his former lobbyist friends (italics mine):
Tom Delay was right up front in the battle over Terri Schiavo, and having lost that battle he is now out to punish those impudent judges who dared not to agree with his position. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior," he said.
Plagued with scandals and other baggage, today DeLay announced that he's giving up.
Talking Points Memo suggests that since DeLay already won the Republican nomination and can only be disqualified if he dies, is convicted of a felony, or leaves the state, that he will likely move to Virginia to allow the Republicans to run a new candidate for his seat. A felony would also do the trick, but that might not come quickly enough.
A move to Virginia would also apparently allow him to convert his re-election fund into a legal defense fund.
I believe Delay has said that's what he'll do.
My favorite part of all this is that he claims to be doing this because he's afraid of dragging down the party. He's only doing this because he doesn't want to get his ass kicked by a democrat - which would have likely been the outcome of the race.