Tom DeLays' Top Ten Stupid Comments

[ladylibertee]

Stupid Tom DeLay Quotes
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10 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes by Tom DeLay
1) "I AM the federal government." –Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth's Chris Steak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of federal government regulations banning smoking in the building, May 14, 2003 (Source)

2) "So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself." --Tom DeLay, explaining at the 1988 GOP convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War(Source)

3) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" –Tom Delay, to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)

4) "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power." –Tom DeLay, explaining why America must topple Saddam Hussein in 2002 interview with Fox News (Source)

5) "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes." –Tom DeLay, March 12, 2003 (Source)

6) "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills." –Tom DeLay, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999 (Source)

7) "A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that... It does take a father, though." -Tom DeLay, in a radio interview, Feb. 10, 2004 (Source)

8) "I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church." –Tom DeLay (Source)

9) "Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist." –Tom DeLay, during a debate in Congress on increasing the minimum wage, April 23, 1996 (Source)

10) "I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution." –Tom DeLay, in a CNN interview, Dec. 19, 1995 (Source)

[mike_c]

1. absolute shoo-in for the greatest page AND the DU front page....

Kicked and nominated. Oh this is good....

on edit-- I especially liked that one about all the "minority youths" elbowing him aside from serving as cannon fodder in Vietnam.

[ladylibertee]

2. I thought ya might like to see whats "really" inside the mind of a

crased psycho like him.LOL

[DaBruno]

3. Hehe...

WOW it's fun to laugh at my own party.

[ladylibertee]

5. Your a pub?

[DaBruno]

11. Aye, I am.

However, I don't believe in pretty much anything the administration is doing. I want them gone just as much as you do. Not in as many ways, I'm sure...

I suppose the best way to say this is that I want the old Reps back. You know, the ones with honor and integrity. I know, I'll prolly get called on that, saying that they were never good, et cetera, but I like to know where the progressive movement is going with stuff. I have no intentions to really start anything here, but I like to talk (not debate) intelligently with people like you, learning about what you think about stuff. So far, as I've been monitoring DU, you're right on almost everything, so I decided to join up. I suppose you'd call me a moderate independant more than anything, but I'm a registerred Repub more to shut my dad up than anything. Kept heckling me about those "evil libruls", I believe is how he put it...

At any rate, getting sidetracked. Yeah, I'm a Repub, but in name only. A RINO, if you will. I was brought into signing up here after a beautiful post by a member here, showing the protests... Something along the lines of "this is what Democracy is". Made me proud to be an American, and ashamed to be a Republican.

I'm changing my registration ASAP. Not to Democrat, mind you, but to Independant. I'm sick of the corruption on BOTH sides of the isle, and want it purged as soon as possible.

Not entirely sure if this little speech will get me banned or not... Hope not.

Merry meet, merry part, merry meet again, ladylibertee.

[ladylibertee]

12. I see.Well, unlike the Republican Party, all is welcome with us.

As far as being a repub because of pressure from your father,that does not surprise me.That's pretty much the whole Republican Party.It's not untill they actuall, like yourself, become someone with a mind of their own, do they steer away.So,Welcome to liberty.

[Matariki]

13. I have republican family members in the same boat as you

they are fiscally conservative and believe that government should stay out of people's business. we don't see eye to eye on everything, but they're not psycho neo-cons, they despise what's happening to the republican party, and i respect them. I kind of wish they got their news from more places than TV though. you think i should turn them onto DU? *that* would be interesting...

Perhaps you shouldn't switch your party affiliation, but work to take it back from the crazy and irresponsible folk who have stole it?

anyway, welcome to DU.

[DaBruno]

15. Aye, Kineta.

That's what I want to do, eventually... I just see the same shit, different day with the common Republicans and, as you put it so bluntly here at DU, sheeple, that it just makes my blood boil to see the Grand Old Party become the Immoral/Shitty/(insert other appropriate name here) Old Party.

I want to affect change from within, but the way things are now, the "with us/against us" routine rules the day, meaning that if I try to change anything, I'm disowned.

In reference to your family, try to get them involved in other activities. Now, please don't flame me for this, as I don't mean this in any offense whatsoever, but sometimes DU can seem slightly... knee-jerkish. Reactionary, so to speak. However, overlooking that, this is a pretty decent place. Not always perfect, but a good community to bring to light that which the current administration has set wrong.

Thanks for the welcome, Kineta. It's nice to know that I have somewhere to go to should I feel the need to vent about the idiots in power.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Yup, gotta agree, this is a great post.

The stupidity and caveman thoughts all bundled up neatly.

[pazarus]

6. Great find -- nominated! I wish the sources were intact...

just for posterity's sake. This is a keeper.

[Canuckistanian]

7. Is there a link with sources?

He asked hopefully. I could probably research them myself, but I'm lazy.

[ladylibertee]

8. I must have not posted it right.I got it off an e-mail.Sorry

[Daphne08]

9. Link is here...

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/stupidquotes/a/tomdelayquotes.htm

:)

[ladylibertee]

10. I love you.Thank You for saving my ass.

[Canuckistanian]

14. No problems! Thanks for the link!

Much appreciated.
:yourock:

[Seabiscuit]

19. Just took their "Democratic Loyalty Quiz". Results:

"Your score is 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. You are a pure, unabashed, die-hard Democratic loyalist. You are appalled by the way Republicans are turning America into a theocratic, corpo-fascist police state, and you'd gladly walk through a furnace in a gasoline suit to elect a Democratic president. In your view, there is no higher form of patriotism than defending America against the Republican Party and every intolerant, puritanical, imperialistic, greed-mongering, Constitution-shredding ideal for which it stands."

See: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bldemocraticloyaltyquiz.htm

[NJCher]

16. I daresay

He's as dumb as bush.

Anybody remember Roman Hruska, the senator from Nebraska who once argued that mediocre people need representation, too?

Who would ever dream our American standards would sink so low that we'd see genuinely stupid people in such powerful offices?




Cher

[YOY]

17. Mediocre? Don't insult mediocre folks!

He's just a slimey farging bastich. The perfect representative for other slimy farging bastiches.

Pretzel logic, racist overtones, no concept or care of reality, egocentric, and simply hatefull at times.

Yes a slimy farging bastich.

[CBHagman]

18. I didn't check to see if anyone else mentioned this, but...

...the next comment is so damnably stupid that it deserves to be mentioned again:

DeLay comparing coverage of the bloodshed in Iraq to news coverage of the news in Texas:

http://atlanticreview.org/archives/81-Republican-leaders-make-remarkable-comments-on-US-foreign-policy.html

"You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard as Iraq is held to, nobody'd go to Houston, because all this reporting coming out of the local press in Houston is violence, murders, robberies, deaths on the highways. <…> And if you took that as the image of what is a great city that has an incredible quality of life and an incredible economy, it's amazing to me. Go to Iraq. And see what's actually happening there. Everybody that comes from Iraq is amazed at the difference of what they see on the ground and what they see on the television set."

Ahem. Does Houston have literally dozens of assassinations of government officials and clergy? How about suicide bombers? Howabout electricity only part of the day? Sewage running through the streets? Does DeLay think that the Iraqis would compare the mayhem and suffering they endure to what incompetence, crime, etc., go on in Texas?

Boy, I wish we had a smiley for kicking DeLay in the pants. Perhaps we can have a thump on the head smiley eventually...

[cassiepriam]

20. This man is psychotic with delusions of grandeur.

There are meds that can help him out.

[blue neen]

21. DeLay is like the shoplifter who demands a refund.

He's a thief, a liar, and a criminal, AND he's so god-damned arrogant about it all that it's astounding.

[The Witch]

22. What is the repub fascination with "super-duper?"

First Delay, then Specter using it... did these guys not get thesauruses when they were in junior high?