At least Two dozen Democrats walk out on Delay's speech

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A Democrat could be heard telling colleagues to walk out of the House chamber as DeLay criticized liberals who he said stand for ``more government, more taxation, more control over people's lives and decisions and wallets.'' At least two dozen Democratic lawmakers rose and left.

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`A large part of his legacy will be a culture of corruption that he built here in the Congress of the United States,'' said Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

In compliance with his own party's rule, DeLay stepped down as majority leader, the No. 2 job, last year after he was indicted in Texas on campaign money laundering charges. His ties to former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty in a federal bribery investigation, have come under scrutiny.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5874093,00.html

[MercutioATC]

1. Nutless bastards...

...sure, they'll walk out on DeLay as he's resigning. He's safe.

Did they have the guts to do that to the President? No.


Nice "See, I have a spine" pandering.

:eyes:

[rurallib]

10. No shit!

[Kikosexy2]

24. Why was Dirty..

Delay given time to make a farewell speech?...Just pack your shit and get your smelly hole out of the building!! Your through!

[BlueJazz]

2. They probably had to take a Shower after being around...

..that infested Piece-of-Shit.

[undeterred]

3. I heard part of his speech on Randi Rhodes

he was saying how he'd always been so honest and fair.

Not an ounce of remorse or responsibility.

[Nothing Without Hope]

13. Nope, no remorse or responsibility. He plans to get away with it. n/t-

[Tigress DEM]

14. Framed, I tell you Framed..... yeah, right Tom. nt

[Syncronaut Seven]

25. Those would be the key traits of a sociopath

If I'm not mistaken.

[howmad1]

43. Not a single nazi had any remorse or responsibility.

[skipos]

4. "more control over people's lives" Oh the irony! nt

[Tigress DEM]

15. ADHD's confuse a "more effective government" with "more govt."

or giving the people "MORE control over their government" with "more govt." It's the lapse in attention that misses certain crucial points in these instances.

Maybe he just needs a good drug. He should see if Rush can fix him up.

[Canuckistanian]

16. Yeah, right

Since when do Democrats obsess over your sex life, tap your phones, tell you who you should marry, scrutinize your library choices, ogle your medical records, judge your voting elegibility or examine your household spending habits?

It's Delay's party that does those things.

[AzDar]

20. Makes one's head hurt, doesn't it? n/t

[Clark2008]

5. Liberals stand for more government, more taxation and

more control over people's lives? Whaaaa?

Seems to me that it's been the Republicans who've grown the government since Bush took office, have placed more tax burdens on the most people (the middle class or what's left of it) and control people's lives by telling them when they can die, what they can do with their wombs and who they can marry.

What utter hypocrisy!

The Dems should have pointed that out as they walked out.

[Bucky]

32. Republicans don't place the tax burdon so much on the middle class as...

the unborn. No wonder they're antiabortion. They need someone around to pay off this huge debt.

[ClintonTyree]

48. The fact that DeLay could say all that with a straight face.......

is what boggles my mind. Everything he accused the Democrats of is what his OWN PARTY has been guilty of since King George's defining moment of 9/11/01 occurred. The RepubliCONS have ruined our government, our country and indeed, the world. Yet this piece of shit has the gall to project this onto Democrats? :wtf:

Rot in hell you sick, twisted piece of shit! :grr: DeLay is on my list of, "people I hate who's grave I have to piss on". And believe me, I will and I'll enjoy draining every drop onto his final resting place. Hell, I might not even wait for him to die. If a chance meeting should occur I think I'll give him a golden shower while he's still alive. It would drive the point across much better. I've never hated a human being so much in my life as this miserable cretin! :mad:

[Doremus]

6. Who crossed the aisle after being insulted like that?

"Republicans, particularly those from Texas, surrounded DeLay after his speech. A few Democrats set aside party politics and crossed the aisle to say goodbye."

[LuckyLib]

37. Those Texas Repugs deserve him. Permanently. They are

a sleazy, vicious group who succeeded in foisting Chimpy on us as well. Take your stupid idiots home to your "great" state and choke on them.

[nxylas]

49. You can donate to the Texas secession movement here

http://www.republic-of-texas.net/

Think about it, if Texas were to become an independent republic, they wouldn't be a "laboratory of bad government" (Molly Ivins) for the rest of the country.

[hraka]

45. Does anyone know who walked out?

I'd like to know if any of my reps had the balls.

[jean]

7. "Culture" is a very dignified word - DeLay built a filthy, corrupt nest

that is going to take years to eradicate.

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. He also said

something to the effect that "we could have gotten so much more done had the Democrats allowed us". God, I shudder to think about how much more bad it could have been had he gotten EVERYTHING he wanted. :scared:

[Syncronaut Seven]

26. He didn't get everything he wanted?

Oh thats right, THE INDICTMENTS !

[Mythsaje]

8. "Don't you think it's time to retire that shovel, Tom?"

"You've heaved enough horseshit for a lifetime."

:evilgrin:

Now that's what someone SHOULD have said.

What a piece of work. And any Democrat who crossed party lines to "say goodbye" should be verbally flogged.

[A Simple Game]

30. Now, easy with the flogging,

we don't know just what the Democrats said to Ole Tom. There is goodbye and there is good riddance.

[rurallib]

11. And what about the so-called moderate Republicans?

I live in the district of Jim (I vote with DeLay 80% of the time)Leach. I get so sick of him being called moderate. He followed DeLay pretty much all the way untiil he became radioactive. If this guy had any self-respect he would have joined those Dems.

[Elidor]

12. Tell us more, Tom...

From your jail cell. Time for your perp walk, scumbag.

[krispos42]

40. rotflmao LOVE THAT LOGO!!!

[Elidor]

47. Thanks

:) I'd laugh myself, but it just makes me cry.

[BrklynLiberal]

17. I can't believe any Democrat stayed...and then SHOOK HANDS with that POS!!

Like he would have been gracious to a Dem if the situation was reversed.
Riiiiiiight.

I would bet that not one single Repuke would have even bothered to show up if it were a Dem that was leaving under similar circumstances.

[LibDemAlways]

27. Not only would they not show up, they'd be holding

a press conference just outside the chamber where they'd call the Dem every name they could think of.

[krispos42]

41. We'll have a chance to see...

When that Lousiana Democrat has to resign, (Jefferson, right?), we'll see how many neocons give him a goodbye hug.

[hraka]

46. He woulda walked over and...

thrown out his paw, with that big shit eating smile of his. I won't miss that face. (If I remembered my dreams, he's probabky in a nightmare or 2.)

[snowbear]

18. That old bastard will BURN in Hell one day...

He definitely already qualifies for a one-way pass to HELL when the bastard croaks.

Before that day comes though.. he really should be thrown in to the same cell as "Kenny Boy" Lay or Abramoff for the next 10-12 years.

[quiet.american]

19. Thrilled to hear at least 24 Dems walked out on his B.S.

Excellent.

[kentuck]

21. Just two dozen ?

I would have hoped for many more.

[quiet.american]

28. I would have been happy with even just one.

I'm not raining on this parade. There'll be plenty other things to beat them up over.

[jwirr]

52. There were probably many Dems who were not even on the

floor while he spoke.

[joefree1]

22. "It's time for my close-up Mr. Earle"

Say Good bye Tom, ... fade to black, ... closing credits.

[joefree1]

23. "Lay on your Stomach and tell me you love me Rush"

Rush and Tom, made to share a cell together.

[krispos42]

44. What's that old saying?

The bigger the cushin' the better the pushin'?

Robin Williams noted the idiocy of anti-sodomy laws. It went something like this: if you commit sodomy, they're going to send you to a prison where you're gonna get sodomized!

Jeff Gannon could be the head bitch in that wing and DeLay could change his name from "The Hammer" to "The Hammered"!

I think that by the time this administration leaves office (or is yanked from office, whichever) we will need an entire dedicated federal prison just for them. The George Walker Bush Administration Federal Prison and Presidential Library. Of course, all of the volumes in there would be either classified or visitors couldn't get security clearance to see them.

I used to work in a prison architectural hardware plant. I've made the stuff they'd be locked behind. Even had a sample cell make up in the plant. The thought makes me smile...

[ItNerd4life]

29. Can someone please explain to me

his thinking when he says Democrats are for more government. One thing Republicans always say is 'Tax cuts bring in more revenue to the government'. If that's the case then aren't Republicans who want tax cuts the same people who want a bigger government?

[krispos42]

42. Damn, that's good...

If the current Administration and Legislature been in power in World War Two, not only would we have lost the war by invading Turkey and Bangladesh, but our tax rates would have been set at 0% AND the government would have given everybody either a $600 or $1,000,000 tax refund (you can guess who gets what) every year. After all, the GOPers seem to equate "long costly War of Occupation/War Against Terror" with "cut taxes and expand government inefficiently", then such a great war as WWII would actually neccessitate a negative tax rate! Until the Germans conquered us, opened up concentration camps, and started sending blacks and gays to the ovens. Then, of course, they would be out there with Mausers and MP40s helping them along.

Of course, their plan might have been to make the government debt so bad that no nation in their right ming would want to conquer us.

[The Wizard]

51. If tax cuts = more revenue

Let's eliminate all taxes so the treasury will be overflowing in short order. Anyone selling tax cuts mean more revenue needs to try some products made by Fleet.

[Bucky]

31. Ironic for him to criticize "more gov't, more control over peoples' lives"

I do like one quote DeLay gave, however:

"I helped build the largest political coalition in the last 50 years. The K Street project and the K Street strategy I am very proud of."

Let's hang that one around their necks for a while. Another money:

"You show me a nation without partisanship, and I'll show you a tyranny," Mr. DeLay said, adding, "It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle."

What a telling indictment of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Dwight Eisenhower, and practically every so-called statesman in American history who dared to place his country's interest above his partisan interest. What a fantastic way of showing the ultimate folly of treating America like we're one people, one nation under God, or the falaciousness of our so-called indivisibility.

Good one, Tom. Good one.

[SIMPLYB1980]

33. See you in Jail soon.

I'm glad they walked out but they should have held a press conference to degrade him even more. I hope he gets squashed like the bug he is!

[Union Label]

34. Kick

And good for the ones showing what this country really stands for.

[butterfly77]

35. Which scaredy asses didn't walk out....

what did they say " it would be the proper thing to do" these dems ain't worth a damn.

[Voltaire99]

36. "A few Dems set aside party politics & crossed the aisle to say goodbye"

"A few Democrats set aside party politics and crossed the aisle to say goodbye."

You know the term a man's man.

I guess you'd have to call them a worm's worms.

[maxsolomon]

38. o for the house of commons

you don't pontificate like that unchallenged there. they'll call you on your shit.

[and-justice-for-all]

39. PIECE OF SHIT.....

This is a statement by the chomeDome:
Liberals are striving for "more government, more taxation, more control over people's lives and decisions and wallets.''

THAT IS SO INCORRECT! Thats what Repukes are doing now. We will have no choice but to pay more taxes to pay off that RECORD national deficit that Dubya has caused. That will include MegaCorps and the wealthy.

More contol over peoples lives?? WTF...Repukes are in league with the bible thumpers that not only think that I shouldnt have a civil union option, but also that vaccines (HPV) may promote more sexual deviant behaviors..You can bet the farm that that is wht HIV/AIDS vaccines are slow coming..Because of Tony Perkins and cult organizations that put pressure on the CDC and other medical corps.

More Government? I dont think so, we NEED a hell of alot less Govt. I dont need senators wanting to amend the constitution just so I cant have a civil union with my lover of 13 years. ITS NONE OF THEIR DAMN BUSINESS WHO I MARRY!!!

TOM DELAY, DUBYA, Coulter..etc = WORTHLESS PIECES OF SHIT! They are whats wrongs with this country.

[OG Yankee Patriot]

50. This Could Be a Rumor, But I Heard From a Guy

who knows a guy who works in the Federal Prison to which DeLay will likely be sentenced.
The guy told him that inmates named Tyrone, Jamal & Julio are already making plans for TD's "social life" when he gets to prison.
Apparently, doughy paunchy old white guys who used to be called "Hammer" are highly desirable.