Featuring actual reporting (as opposed to just rewritten press releases), the Texas Observer actually writes about what happened at Tom DeLay’s recent “Conservative Movement Salute” held in D.C. recently to shore up the failing GOP House Leader.
They accomplished this feat by actually attending the event, talking to people who were there, and reporting on what they saw and what they didn’t see. Imagine that.
What they didn’t see, was the bulk of DeLay’s Republican colleagues, nor the many K Street lobbyists with whom DeLay has infamously raised millions…
Then she looked at the head table: “Is there anybody important out here?”
…There’s something odd about a tribute to a political leader with no political leaders in the crowd. She crashed a party expecting to see Senator Bill Frist, and all she got was salmon, filet mignon, a lot of red wine?and the plastic hammer from atop the red, white, and blue marble cake.
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Later in the evening I asked a slightly drunk young woman in an elegant black dress (that was probably far too revealing for the Christians in the crowd) what brought her and her four companions to the event. ?Just the freeeeee tickets!? she said.
So what happened to keep all of DeLay’s Republican friends to keep them from showing up to support their leader? The event was prior to DeLay’s political action committee having been fined $200,000 this week for failing to disclose half a million dollars worth of corporate contributions after all. Perhaps many of them didn’t want to be seen as losers associating with a criminal like DeLay. Well…not all of them cared about being seen as losers…
Only two House Republicans, Tom Feeney and Trent Franks?not big players in party politics or policymaking?were eagerly talking to the press. Feeney is an ardent DeLay supporter from Florida. He has received $10,000 from DeLay’s national political action committee (ARMPAC) since his first race in 2002. He also works on a House team coordinating DeLay’s support. He said DeLay is a target because “he is the most effective leader the House has seen in 50 years.”
Yes…Tom Feeney, BRAD BLOG’s favorite lying Republican congressman from Florida, is proud to be associated with a man like Tom DeLay! And why wouldn’t he be? He was on several of those expensive lobbyist-paid trips with his good friend Tom DeLay and a recent report showed that he’s the #1 closest ally of Tom DeLay in the entire U.S. House of Representatives!
Congratulations are due Texas Observer for doing what the media is supposed to do: Investigate and Report.
Congratulations are also due to the Two Toms for being two of the most corrupt officials in the House of Representatives! No small feat that!
(Thanks to David Edwards for his tip on this article.)
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The Toms are pimpular.
Maybe Tom’s support got DeLayed.
Okay that was a bad pun, but it had to be said!
Time to lose that brown hair dye, Tom. If you weren’t paying for your girls, one of them would have told you by now how silly it looks.
One look at the picture makes me wonder if this here is the "Missing Link"!!!
No wonder the Theory of Evolution has been made so taboo! (Jes’ wunderin’.) LOL!
The rats know the ship is sinking. DeLay is universally hated (except by his good traveling pal Feeney), and he has ruled by intimidation and bribes. No one is truly loyal to a corrupt bully, they do what they have to until he loses his power over them and then they walk away as he falls.
‘nothing without hope’ stated a sure truth. The unfortunate part of this is that there are so many cowards in the congress. That none could stand up to the bully until he became ‘weakened’.
But as one of the neocon lieutenants…he played his role in facilitating the onset of fascism in our country. For that I wish him the same fate Mike Malloy wished upon Dobson.
Rapture em right out of the world.
drduffy #7: Amen to that!! 😀
Kira #5: ROTFLMAO Oh yeah…. I think there is some truth in that! 😀
Now… If Feeney goes, and a few dozen other bastard GOP’s, the World will b a better place! Wahoooo… Go get ’em! :laugh: 😛
If Tom Feeney went up to speak at this event, it would’ve been funny if, with all the empty seats, someone gave Feeney the "slow clap" when he went up. You know, the "slow clap" is the sarcastic, slow clap seen in typical teen movies.
i think most of the conservathugs can read the writing on the wall. He’s texas toast….or that crap that passes for bbq over there.
What kills me is the fund raising fine. They raised half a mill and get to keep 60% of that plus the interest it generated and no jail time. Wouldn’t it make sense if the fine exacted more than what was illegally given?
Chris Shays held a meeting in Greenwich recently. He had gone on record previously as saying DeLay
"always goes to edge…," not approving of his ethics but stopping short of criticizing him openly.
At the Greenwich meeting he faced so much animosity toward DeLay that he was forced to disavow him altogether. "I’m not a supporter of Tom DeLay, etc…" Chris has also spoken out against the Christian/right-wing takeover of the national Republican party.
Greenwich is a Republican town, where several generations of Bushes have lived and with more multi-millionaires per square foot than live anywhere in Texas. The good rats are indeed deserting the sinking ship, and DeLay will discover that the bad rats remaining (like Feeney) are so much like him that they’ll do more harm than good.
Feeney doesn’t care at all what anyone thinks of him because he doesn’t have to run for office. His district was gerrymandered so that there’s no chance of his ever losing an election, and therefore the Democrats won’t waste the effort on a campaign against him. As long as the Florida party bosses like him, the seat is his. Last time around, another local dirtbag (Yes, there are more in central FL just as bad as Feeney.) wanted to run against him, but all his signs suddenly disappeared.