Conservatives Honor DeLay With Gala

[norml]

Conservatives Honor DeLay With Gala

Friday May 13, 2005 3:46 AM


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By SHARON THEIMER

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, facing an audience of conservative well-wishers who reject as politically motivated the ethics questions that have dogged him for months, on Thursday night fired back at Democrats by calling them members of a party with no ideas and ``no class.''

The Texas congressman's supporters - among them a dozen conservative organizations - staged a high-profile show of support by throwing a $250-a-plate gala in his honor that brought nearly 900 people to the Capital Hilton. The money will be used to pay for the event, organizers said.

When he took the stage after other speakers had hailed him for his leadership in the Republican Party and the House, DeLay made only a passing reference to the problems that have sparked calls for an ethics probe, joking that one speaker had told reporters about a foreign trip they didn't know about.

Instead, DeLay told the crowd that as Republicans helped Americans find jobs and helped the country recover from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Democrats offered the country nothing.




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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5002579,00.html

[Avalux]

1. Classic Republican Tactic

You gotta admit, they're good at it. Big clankin' balls. :crazy:

[Joey Liberal]

2. Saw it on CSPAN

It was pathetic and I couldn't watch. It was really bad. Fucking Nazis.

[ComerPerro]

3. Saw part of it on CSPAN

but the pathetic fawning made me want to vomit.

[norml]

4. I'm watching Phyllis Schlafly, at the event, on C-Span

And now Roy Blunt!