Old Tom
I won't miss him,
Tom DeLay's exit is big loss for House GOP | csmonitor.com. He leaves strategizing to the very end. After the primaries are over and he can annoint a successor
DeLay Departing on Own Terms. Taking shots at McKinney Delay: McKinney Is A Racist. Taking 'shots' at current and former Supreme Court Justices who are not part of the New Right.
DeLay Says Justices 'Don't Get' Criticism - Yahoo! News. "They don't get it", he says. "Didn't you see the comments of Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Ginsburg over the last couple of weeks?" DeLay, R-Texas, asked reporters after a speech to a group of Christian conservatives. "There's still a problem, they don't get it." The reference is to reports like this one for Justice Ginsburg
Justice Ginsburg Reveals Details of Threat - Yahoo! News and later
Ginsburg Faults GOP Critics, Cites a Threat From 'Fringe' and speech by Justice O'Conner which was reported with two articles in the Guardian Newspapers
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Dictatorship is the danger
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Former top judge says US risks edging near to dictatorship although I saw it first in this in Slate
O'Connor Forecasts Dictatorship By Jack Shafer, which I think remains the primary MSM (inc) coverage of this. It's a set of interesting reads. I figured plenty of hard right conservatives wanted to say: |O'Connor and Ginsburg - drunk on the firewater and off the reservation|, but it was Tom Delay who stepped up to the plate. I hear old Tom is moving on, to Virginia. That being one reason he's saying goodbye to that house seat down in Texas. Seems to me that when he finally started reading the papers (and indictments) the insight hit him "lobbying. Well. thats where the money is..." So the speculation goes
DeLay says "maybe".... I believe he was quoted as saying (and if not him exactly, some other Texan): " Well, I been movin' down Florida (Virginia) Way, And I'm gonna build me the a-tom-ic bomb. Well, I'm gonna hold time hostage down in Florida (Virginia), child. Ain't nobody, said ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do."
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