I'm pretty sure that Tom Delay was being sarcastic.
Oh really? Here's a story from the Washington Times, no liberal rag, on the quote. The man was dead serious, and that's the sad part.
Link.
Delay was not being sarcastic.He always blows his top when he tangles with Pence(Delay's comment was in response to Pence's threat for zero conservative cooperation on ANYTHING without offsets)