"The Hammer: Tom DeLay, God, Money, and the Rise of the...

[shrdlu]

Republican Congress" This Austin Chronicle interview with co-author Louis Dubose will scare you and make you mad and determined to buy the book. As soon as we have disposed of dubya, DeLay is my candidate for takedown.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2004-10-29/pols_feature2.html

"...The guy comes across like a coarse Texas exterminator, which of course he is, but I think that we unfortunately underestimate the right wing. I really do. You might want to make fun of them, but the guy just understands the institution as Johnson did. He has an extraordinary understanding of the institution, and what we all saw over the last year, he recognizes no limits as far as the use of power. And also, I think, he's the icon for the corruption of the system – he's carried it farther than anyone."

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"...You write that DeLay has reversed the traditional role of the lobby, that the Party determines lobby activity – that it's the tail wagging the dog. In the past, the lobby came and tried to influence Congress; DeLay saw that rather than doing it that way, it would make more sense just to make the lobby a division of Congress.

LD: Much as the PRI has captured organized labor in Mexico and made it a part of the party, these guys have captured what's in power now here, and that's the lobby."

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"...Progressive, left writers sort of poke fun at these guys, I think it's a real mistake. It tends to diminish how incredibly powerful and smart they are. DeLay's a smart guy. He's a super high-functioning institutional politician. And he's working with a caucus of cowards. What were the 24 Republican moderates who were Northeast? – the Patrick Shays Republicans, the Peter Kings, they had a bloc that could have controlled the Congress, but this guy cowed them."

[aquart]

1. Oh, let's get the bastard at the same time.

http://www.richardmorrisonfordistrict22.com/news/braz041019.php

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[NEOBuckeye]

2. DeLay is undoubtedly next.

With Bush gone, Tom DeLay becomes the de facto leader of the GOP, and a very ugly one at that. He's already under the focus of heavy attack by everyone in the opposition ranging from the Texas Democratic Party to Howard Dean. That focus is only going to intensify after January 20.