I hope all the Middle Eastern nations are not watching how the very folks lecturing them about fostering democracy over there treat our own democracy here at home. Even Lebanese/Syrian-stooge politicians would blush at the kind of behavior we can watch everyday lately in the US Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
While the Republican majority is allegedly led by House Speaker, Dennis Hassert, the real power is Majority Leader, Tom DeLay of Sugarland, Texas.
It is hard to find a Middle Eastern pretend-legislature led by such a breathlessly ruthless and obvious thug as Tom “The Hammer” DeLay. If he had been born in Queens as Tom DeLessio he would have almost certainly raised quickly through the ranks of John Gotti’s gang – and probably taken it over.
Here’s a man who has turned on his own mother, whom he has not spoken to in years. A reporter who followed DeLay around for month wrote last year that his aging mother videotapes her son whenever he appears on TV. But, because of some ancient family spat, DeLay simply cut her off.
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So much for GOP “family values.”
Even the reason Tom DeLay got into politics is telling. Before coming to Congress he ran a bug extermination company in Sugarland. Then the EPA banned the insecticide DDT. It seems DDT was DeLay’s favorite bug killer and the ban, he believed, was an abuse of federal power. So he ran for an open congressional seat and won.
From that day forward DeLay’s new “bugs” became liberals in Congress. And, his ruthless pursuit of them has been unnervingly successful. Once a liberal-dominated hive, the House and Senate are now dominated by Republicans. And much of that success is because of Tom DeLay.
How did he do it? By perverting the very democratic processes his own party is now championing around the world. Want a recent example? Click here to continue.
