Tom Delay pulled the plug on his own father, apparently.

[jdj]

Tom Delay pulled the plug on his father , apparently.

But has the nerve to criticize Michael Schiavo.

What a trip.

There was no point to even really talking about it," Maxine DeLay, the congressman's 81-year-old mother, recalled in an interview last week. "There was no way he (Charles) wanted to live like that. Tom knew, we all knew, his father wouldn't have wanted to live that way."

Doctors advised that he would "basically be a vegetable," said the congressman's aunt, JoAnne DeLay.

When the man's kidneys failed, the DeLay family decided against connecting him to a dialysis machine. "Extraordinary measures to prolong life were not initiated," said his medical report, citing "agreement with the family's wishes." His bedside chart carried the instruction: "Do Not Resuscitate."

On Dec. 14, 1988, the senior DeLay "expired with his family in attendance."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-delay27mar27,0,5710023.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[MikeG]

1. It's what he was trained to do.

[Walt Starr]

2. Kinda shows him up for the opportunistic whore he really is

doesn't it?

[jdj]

4. The more I read of this article, the more pissed I get.

Delay's dad had his accident one year before Terri. He wouldn't keep his own father alive in this way, but he would do it to someone else for political reasons. That rat bastard scum, there are no words.

"There were also these similarities: Both stricken patients were severely brain damaged. Both were incapable of surviving without continuing medical assistance. Both were said to have expressed a desire to be spared life sustained by machine. And neither left a living will." (from the article).

[Greylyn58]

38. "Rat bastard scum"....

that about sums up how I feel about this bug!!

I can't wait for the day he is squished!!!! :evilfrown:

[rainy]

19. I'm not buying it!

[Walt Starr]

21. So would that mean you support Tom DeLay?

Do tell.

[rainy]

23. Hi Walt, I'm just playing with you,

Don't you remember me? You were mean to me in another post. How soon you forget. Are you always so fickle?

[Walt Starr]

27. Put it in context n/t

[rainy]

30. OK

I had posted about my niece having been declared brain dead. I got much clarification from my post and because of DUer's responses, (except yours), I was able to better understand Terri's circumstances. As I said then, the media are failing to give the facts and I was curious about Terri's treatments.

[Walt Starr]

39. My response was to your OP, put it in context. n/t

[jdj]

22. um, this is the LA Times.

I know it's not World Net Daily or anything, but it is a VERY respected paper.

[etherealtruth]

3. Taking advantage of a family in despair...

...turning a woman's impending death into a circus. I guess to some, all is fair in politics.
This "man" has no shame, or more aptly put: He has no humanity.

[rzemanfl]

5. This is hypocrisy of such magnitude as to require a whole new

word. I suggest "TomDeLayisy" meaning the right to do what you want for you and yours but to impose something entirely different on others. There are other examples of people's names becoming part of the vocabulary "Crapper," "Quisling" and "Judas" are some that come to mind.

[jdj]

9. well, then his family turned around and sued the manufacturer

of the tram that caused his father's severe head injury.

Unfuckingbelievable, my pro-business, anti-lawyer jerk off.

[Ilsa]

29. Did you notice the article only referred to them as "tinkerers"?

I wonder if they had any expertise in attempting to build something as dangerous as a tram that would take a 200 foot decline? I don't think being a drilling contractor imparts the necessary skills for this undertaking.

[Lone Pawn]

6. Nominate this. Put it on the front page. Email it. Tell people.

We need to make certain America knows about this.

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Already done. Check out "Late Breaking News"

Tom Delay - What a fricking hypocrite!!

[jdj]

11. yes, it's from LBN

but I wanted people here to see it.

You know, I found it curious a couple of days ago when the cable clones made a point of saying that Tom Delay had "slipped quietly out of the spotlight". Now I know why. The got his ass off camera because of this, even though they are still showing clips of his screedage.

[Old and In the Way]

34. You're right, it does explain his sudden disappearance on this issue.

I assumed it was the national polling that derailed his crusade, but I think now it may well have been his own past that caught up with him.

Is he a complete idiot? Did he not consider the blatent political hypocrisy that would be exposed in his own family's actions? Honestly, this man has absolutely no soul. He is the most corrupt and vile man that's ever walked the halls of Congress.....Cheney, notwithstanding.

[scottxyz]

44. Cockroaches do scatter when you shine a light on them

DeLay probably knows that from his experience as an exterminator.

[senseandsensibility]

7. He is a disgusting two faced whore

but we all knew that. Now maybe others will, if this gets any play in the corporate media.

[two gun sid]

10. Why does this not surprise me?

How low does a person have to stoop to be a leader in the GOP?

[bush_whacked]

14. Ask Mr. President. nt

[Ilsa]

12. Two points:

"He had no consciousness that I could see," Braddick said. "He did a bit of moaning and groaning, I guess, but you could see there was no way he was coming back."

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

****************

And what's up with them suing the product manufacturers? Did they even have a clue as to what the heck they were doing? The article doesn't say they were engineers, just "tinkerers". Seems to me that they might have been looking for the product manufacturers to pay for their idiocy.

[paineinthearse]

13. Watch DeLay's veins swell and head burst

when this hits the CON/MSM.

[jdj]

16. It would have to come out on a Saturday.

LAT just ran it today, even though it appears the interview is a week old. I bet KO would find this interesting, and Anderson Cooper too.

[senseandsensibility]

17. But will the corporate media even mention it?

Let alone give it the wall to wall 24 hour coverage that this has received for weeks.

[punpirate]

15. Someone really ought to be a kind soul...

... and post this over at FR and let them know.... :)

The excuses, prevarications and solipsistic logic would be fun to watch.

:evilgrin:

[jdots]

18. So Bugsy which bunk to you want in jail ?

We can dream can't we ?

[bookman]

20. Damn...I thought his father was....

..Satan!

[two gun sid]

24. I thought his father was a traveling salesman...

and his mother was a West Texas truck stop whore.

[monobrau]

28. It was the other way around

His mom sold those urinal screens with bible verses on them.

[Orangepeel]

25. and then sued a company for negligence! Can there BE a bigger hypocrite?

[Quixote1818]

26. If this were a book no one would believe this!

Real life is always more interesting than fiction.

[Eric J in MN]

35. It's the nightmare of total Republican control (nt)

nt

[Spazito]

31. There is no words to describe this pond scum,,,

hypocritical is an understatement by far.

[wherewingstakedream]

32. Tom Delay the biggest hypocrite

in the history of the universe. :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[wherewingstakedream]

33. Kick!

:kick:

[TankLV]

36. Not "aparently". He did it. It's a fact.

[FreedomAngel82]

37. Why am I not surprised?

I've also read here on Du that at Frist's family's clinic's (or hospitals?) they pulled the plug on people too and Frist did personally as well. Is that right??

[mopaul]

40. once again, those who blow the hardest have something to hide

look up hypocrisy and there's a pic of tommy delay

[NYC]

41. And Schindler pulled the plug on his mother.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1077219,00.html

Last paragraph.

[IronLionZion]

42. Calling him a scumbag would be an insult to bags of scum

We should let his constituents know about this

They need to throw that bum out in 2006.

Let's see...22nd district of Texas. That's Galveston, Fort Bend, Brazoria, and Harris counties.

Gaveston Daily News: http://www.galvnews.com /

Fort Bend: http://www.fortbendnews.org /

Houston Chronicle: www.chron.com

Baytown Sun: http://www.baytownsun.com /

Come on people, we can defeat Tom "Father-killer" Delay if we put our minds to it.

[wherewingstakedream]

43. Kick

:kick: