Posted on 04/19/2005 6:43:42 AM PDT by doug from upland
NOTE: This is the eighth in a series of reports about Congressman Tom DeLay and why he must be removed from leadership and from the House of Representatives.
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Unlike most kids who wanted to go outside and play sports after church on Sundays, little Tommy DeLay would slip into his mother's bathrobe and line his sister's dolls along the edge of a bed so he could preach to them. It was good practice. And it worked. He was actually ordained a Pentecostal minister when he was just 10.
If I can remember that far back, I was playing centerfield for Louck's Insurance at that age. We had gray uniforms with navy blue pinstriping. In my last year of Little League, I actually pitched a no-hitter and struck out 15 batters in the six-inning game. Whoops, this isn't about me. It's about the evil DeLay. I must focus. But I did throw a mean overhand curve and a slider. And a knuckleball.
In gospel circles DeLay was developing a reputation as "The Wonderboy," and he enjoyed the traveling preaching circuit. He was quite entertaining. Forty years later he is still selling his brand of snakeoil.
Republicans who still stand behind Reverend DeLay don't want you to know about a lifetime of sordid episodes from this lowlife scoundrel. A notable one was that little episode caught on tape involving cocaine and an FBI sting in 1983.
"I can get pure coke ... for about 35,000 a kilo," says Victor Quintana, the FBI agent, as DeLay nods during the sting operation. "But I gotta get, you know, more than one."
"Right," DeLay replies.
"Ten kilograms is, like, $350,000," Quintana says. "That's a drop in the bucket, you know. We can go bigger."
DeLay gives a nod.
"Every kilogram we bring in is 3,500 to you. How does that sound?" Quintana asks, as DeLay nods again. "So we bring in 10, you'll make $35,000.
"I hear you," DeLay replies. On the grainy tape, DeLay is in a paneled office with an undercover FBI agent posing as a coke dealer. The good reverend has an unlit cigar in his mouth and is wearing a cowboy hat. That's pretty cool. The agent offers DeLay a 10% finder's fee to arrange the sale of several kilos of cocaine. The ultimate buyer is not named.
"But that's a drip in the bucket," the phony drug lord continues.
"Well, if [the unnamed buyer] can, if he's gonna do it, he'll do it much more than that," DeLay says.
"If he can do it 100 times over, I might be able to supply it 100 times over," Quintana replies.
The drug deal was never consummated, and no charges were brought against DeLay as a result of the tape. Until HBO gained access to the tape in 2004, why did we never hear about this? Of course we know why. The Republicans were covering up for one of their own. They do that stuff all the time. They are the king of the double standard.
All of his life, DeLay has also been a race hustler. He publicly defamed a county district attorney and accused him of raping and throwing a black girl into a dumpster. It was totally false, but the prosecutor's career was ruined. He won a large settlement against DeLay, but there is no evidence that DeLay ever used any of his own money to pay the judgment.
How about DeLay failing to file his state income tax return? Yep. DeLay being arrested for tresspassing? Yep. And how about DeLay the anti-Semite? Yep. He can do it all. He is really a Renaissance man. Had DeLay gone into professional baseball, we have no doubt that he would have hit for average, hit for power, won Golden Gloves, and averaged 50 stolen bases a year.
In 1991, DeLay turned the death of a black child in a traffic accident involving a Hasidic Jew into a racial incident. Within hours of the accident, he was there with gasoline and matches (not literally). At the child's funeral, he condemned the "diamond merchants," which was his code word for Hasidic Jews. Later, DeLay led 400 chanting protesters through the Jewish section of town.
After the demonstration, it was not surprising what would happen next. There were four nights of rocks and bottles being thrown at Jewish homes. Yankel Rosenbaum, a young Talmudic scholar, was surrounded by a mob shouting "kill the Jew" and stabbed to death.
With each DeLay project, the body count scoreboard lights up. How about the incident in 1995 in which a landlord-tenant dispute escalated into arson and murder. A Jewish property owner attempted to evict a tenant. Following a DeLay organized demonstration, one of the protesters ran into the store and shot several employees. He wasn't finished until he set the place on fire and killed himself. Seven died thanks to Mr. DeLay's activities. Because most were black and Hispanic, perhaps DeLay can claim that he was proving he is inclusive. That's a good trait. We always hear that "our strength is our diversity." Right?
Some of us are amazed that any Republican will show up on a stage with DeLay. But they do, and they act as if he were a respected member of the party. What in the world is wrong with them? I guess they are just pretending none of this ever happened. Like the Energizer Bunny, DeLay just keeps going and going while the GOP keeps ignoring and ignoring. Yes, America, this is your Republican Party. They are absolutely shameless.
What? Wait a minute, someone is interrupting me. Are you kidding? It wasn't Tom DeLay who destroyed a prosecutor's career with a false rape charge, who enflamed racial tensions, who caused Jews to be attacked and die, who was caught on tape in an undercover FBI cocaine sting, and who was always there to pour gasoline on the fire? It was who? Reverend Al Sharpton? Oh, okay. Never mind.
LOL
Ping!!!!
These are brilliant - can they be published somehow to bring them to the attention of the "general public"? Or, perhaps, used as "letters to the editor" of major metropolitan newspapers?
Do you have any indication that other parts of the press have picked up on your Tom DeLay series? I sincerely hope so, because your work is good enough for wider reading and appreciation.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, "A Triple Black Dog Double Dare to Infinity."
LOL--I just love these. Every one of them is simply priceless, and they demonstrate an important point. What's good for the goose apparently is never good for the gander. (In certain minds.)
Keep um coming.
The problem is that people would read this and think it true, never getting to the punch line or just dumb enough to think the article is correct.
I'd rather this were sent around for all to read that didn't catch it yesterday.(Innuendo vs. evidence) This is David Linbaugh's thoughtful piece.
haha! I'll ping the RKBA and the Kitties to this one, just for grins. :)
Boink!
Another masterpiece, I love em!
IT WAS THE JOOS!!
Here's an in your face pic for the Liberal
lyin' jerks trying to smear Delay!
I fax them to my republican Senators and Congressman.
You know...
... maybe he could stand for Supreme Court Justice.
Then, of course, they'd be saying Justice Delayed is just as denied.
By the way, additional Happy Birthday greetings, Meekie, you young coot!
;^)
... maybe he could stand for Supreme Court Justice.They'd REALLY be screamin' then, wouldn't they?! haha!
By the way, additional Happy Birthday greetings, Meekie, you young coot!
Thank you, sir! :)
PS - Send them to Sean.
ha! :)
Brilliant, simply freakin' BRILLIANT.
My hat's off to you Doug.
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