Posted on 04/20/2005 7:14:42 AM PDT by doug from upland
NOTE: This is the ninth in a series of reports about Congressman Tom DeLay and why he must be removed from leadership and from the House of Representatives.
DELAY No. 1
DELAY No. 2
DELAY No. 3
DELAY No. 4
DELAY No. 5
DELAY No. 6
DELAY No. 7
DELAY No. 8
Maybe Tom DeLay keeps getting a pass because his family has so much money. Money can buy a great deal of power. It can pay off people when you get in trouble.
The DeLay family fortune is estimated at about a billion dollars. The congressman's grandfather set up the family very nicely by importing booze. Over the generations, the extended family has consumed mass quantities of both booze and drugs. It sort of reminds you of the mass quantities ingested by the Coneheads on Saturday Night Live. Or perhaps John Belushi and the rest of the guys who were on double secret probation in Delta House. Or even Michael Moore when he visits a House of Pies. It has been revealed that in high school, DeLay had a cocaine problem and was in rehab. He has admitted having severe bouts with depression, taking anti-depressants, and visiting a psychiatrist regularly since 1986. Until publicly admitting his problem, he parked his car four blocks away from the shrink's office so that the voters wouldn't see it parked in front.
With the big famous family name and money, DeLay made it to congress very easily. In his first congressional race, nearly the entire budget was financed by his personal assets.
Oh, yes, the famous DeLay family. Or, is it infamous?
His dad killed a woman by driving off a bridge and leaving her to die when the air pocket in the submerged Olds ran out of air. A cousin had sex with the baby sitter and might have had to face the music had he not had the unfortunate meeting with Mr. Tree while coming down a ski slope. Ouch.
Another cousin was out cruising for young women with his bloated drunken slob of an uncle, Tom's father. They took her back to the family compound where she was allegedly assaulted by the cousin. The uncle might have joined in but he was undoubtedly passed out in his own vomit shortly after reaching the compound. The poor victim was disguised on TV during the trial with a blue dot covering her face on the screen. Unfortunately, there was no conviction. Remember what money and power can do for you.
The family doesn't seem to have a shortage on cousins. Another one was eventually convicted of an old murder. Many years before, he had killed a 15-year-old girl with a 6-iron. He cracked her skull, dragged the body into a strand of trees, pulled down her pants, and left her there on the ground to bleed to death.
If you are the owner of a yacht, perhaps you should have second thoughts about chartering it to DeLay. (As an aside, isn't "chartering" much more snooty than saying he rented it?) If you charter a yacht to DeLay, you might want to consider collecting about half of his congressional pay as a deposit because it might not come back to shore in the same condition as when it left. A boat charter company had to sue the congressman for $28,000. It seems that he damaged and abandoned the company's 42-foot yacht during a summer outing. He burned out the engine, damaged a sail, ran down the batteries, left it strewn with clothes and food, and abandoned it on Martha's Vineyard. Stories surfaced recently that he had a serious argument with a girlfriend on that yacht. The distraught lady friend had to be escorted off the boat by the Coast Guard after the pair had fought. On the bright side, at least she wasn't raped, hit with a 3-wood from the fairway, or submerged. She got off easy. Just another day at the office for the DeLay clan.
Tom DeLay had to make his own mark to continue the sordid DeLay family tradition. He had to prove that he was a bad boy like the rest of the men in the family. Hmmmm, maybe he could manhandle a woman. He could have made a waitress sandwich like his dad did with a senator at La Brassiere, but that wouldn't be original. He would soon be in luck. No, we can't say luck. It is more like when preparation meets opportunity.
He would have his opportunity at Los Angeles International Airport. A female security guard is not too pleased to have made his acquaintance. DeLay was told that one of his carry-on bags was too big to fit through the X-ray machine. He grabbed one of his smaller bags and attempted to rush through the metal detector. You see, when you are a DeLay, the rules of the peons don't apply to you. She did her job and blocked his path. He grabbed her shoulder and gave her a quick shove that actually shook the arch of the metal detector. The two argued, and he left in a hurry. Had you or I done that, weapons would have been drawn, and we would have been wearing a bracelet. But not a DeLay. Oh, no. Although he denied hurting her, he offered the security guard $25,000. We can all identify with that. If someone accuses us of a criminal charge, we just get out the checkbook.
With his famous name, DeLay will probably keep getting away with it. The family will keep getting away with it. His putrid party will let him keep getting away with it. Stupid Republican voters will let him keep getting away with it. George Orwell said it best -- "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." The DeLays just happen to be more equal than others. You will have to get used to it.
On a sad note, DeLay's mom was recently found during the early morning hours helpless, drunk or medicated, and face down in a gutter. How surprising is that for a woman who makes the decision to marry into the DeLay family? I mean, what are the odds?
What? Wait a minute, someone is interrupting me. Are you kidding? It wasn't Tom DeLay who trashed the yacht, committed battery on an airport security guard, had a cocaine problem, has a psychological problem, and comes from a family that is above the law, engaging in manhandling, assaulting, and killing women? It was who? Patrick Kennedy? Oh, okay. Never mind.
Pinging the WHY TOM DELAY MUST GO RIGHT NOW list.
*Ted Kennedy Fights Removal of Feeding Tube*
DC --- Ted Kennedy, who was recently declared brain-dead by his
physician, is fighting for his life. The Senator's family is trying to
have his feeding tube removed to allow him to die a sober death. The
tube, attached to a bottle of vodka and a bottle of gin, has been
utilized by the senator for his entire adult life. Medical experts
believe removal will almost certainly result in death.*
*"This is a very complex situation," said one medical expert. "Senator
Kennedy appears to be functioning normally to many people, but it is
quite obvious that the man is brain-dead by his public comments. Most
of us in the medical community think he should be allowed to have a
dignified death by sobering him up and removing his feeding tube."*
*Liberals were stuck in a quandary today as they want Terri Schiavo
dead, but they don't want Ted Kennedy to die. "This is a moral dilemma
to many people," said Commie Greenstein, a liberal living in **New
York**. "Fortunately, most of us don't really make decisions based on
any morals, so it's okay if we want one person to die while allowing a
brain-dead person to live."*
*Alcohol manufacturers around the world are scrambling to raise money
for the "Keep Kennedy Alive" fund. Removing his feeding tube is
predicted to cause a 12% annual decrease in global alcohol consumption.
Some manufacturers risk going out of business as soon as the feeding
tube is removed.*
ROFL
You really had my blood pressure rising. :-)
By the way, I heard you on (I think it was Medved) asking Jana Davis a question.
."I've never seen the Senator look so peaceful and beautiful"
While your satiric pieces are quite funny, I really don't see the value in reiterating the point that Rep. Delay may be ethically challenged, but there are others that are a whole lot worse. It just seems like such a low standard for comparison.
It was Medved with Jayna. She will be on my Rightalk radio show next Wednesday for an hour beginning at 2pm Eastern. Afterwards, she will be on a live FReeper thread answering questions.
I don't wish to hear Ted Kennedy talk about water torture or Hillary Clinton brag about the good things her rapist husband did for women.
Agreed. But the problem now is that Rep. Delay saw to it that the rules were changed to protect his own hide, and the effect of the change is to let all the ethical scalawags off the hook.
What rule was changed to protect him? The one that says he doesn't have to resign because of an indictment, only if he's found guilty?
I do believe that the hypocrisy will come shining through. I hope you saw No. 4 in the series. It is the ultimate hypocrisy.
B. "The re-org of the committee makes perfect sense in that no complaint can linger, slowly tugging at the hem of a member, hoping for a chance to hamstring him, unless it has enough weight to induce bipartisan support.
Your A. and B. contradict each other. When it comes to commencement of ethics inquiries, there will, as you say, always be a partisan split, which makes your supposed "bipartisan support" to initiate an inquiry so rare as to be an utterly ineffective deterrent to unethical conduct.
So the "[t]he re-org of the committee" does not make "perfect sense." It just gives in to the reality of partisanship and gives up on ethics enforcement and deterrence.
"The other part about "stacking" the deck is just a straw-man and not worthy of reply."
Why do you consider stuffing the panel with cronies a straw-man? Sheesh, I guess its true. As long its our guys, anything goes.
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