[Lancey Howard]

He didn’t help his own cause a whole lot when, in the middle of the so-called “Republican” pork spending orgy, he declared that he couldn’t find any more pork to cut from the budget.

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You didn't take his sarcasm seriously.... Right...??

[FlyVet]

I didn’t hear any sarcasm in it, and nothing was done about it. Right?

[af_vet_rr]

You didn't take his sarcasm seriously.... Right...??

Regardless of what you think of him as a person and a politician, DeLay was quite proud and quite open about the pork he brought back to the Houston area. It always bugged me that he was so open about it, even though he talked about being conservative.

The fact that his seat went to a Democrat (and that Bush barely won in that area in 2004 - around %55 or so), DeLay was probably going to be facing some stuff competition anyways - his district had some of the faster growing areas, and you had a lot of yankees and Californians moving into there that were definitely taking the area to the left.