DeLay: Dems Reveal True Swinging-70's Selves; Big-gov, Blame-US Liberalism

[Khephra]

DeLay: Dems Reveal True Swinging-Seventies Selves; Big-government, Blame-America-First Liberalism Died with Disco

To: National Desk

Contact: Stuart Roy or Jonathan Grella, 202-225-4000, both for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay

WASHINGTON, July 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today gave a speech before a crowd of College Republicans at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC.

DeLay said the single organizing philosophy of the Democrat party is "an irrational, all-encompassing, broiling hatred of George W. Bush" and that they have decided to either ignore or reject the realities of 21st century life.

Below are excerpts from his speech.

"While everyone else got the memo that big-government, blame-America-first liberalism died with disco, the Howard Dean Democrats still want to party like its 1979. Maybe we should thank the Democrats for shedding their moderate clothing to reveal their true swinging-seventies selves. Frankly America doesn't need a president in a hot-pink leisure suit," DeLay said.

"Just look at their presidential candidates: it's like they're lost in a time warp. They want to tax like Mondale, spend like Carter, and fight like McGovern," DeLay said.

"No responsible leader could have permitted Saddam Hussein to remain in Baghdad, yet the Democrats now spew more rhetoric about President Bush than they ever did about Saddam Hussein," DeLay said.

"Let's be real clear, if you take their comments to their logical conclusion, they're essentially calling our Commander in Chief, Benedict Arnold," DeLay said. "If we are to take this nonsense seriously, that is how out of control the Democrats' rhetoric has become. But you see that's the whole point.

"The Democrats' accusations aren't meant to be taken seriously," DeLay said. "I will never call the Democrat Party unpatriotic, but I will call their current leadership unfit to face the serious challenges of the 21st century."

DeLay has increasingly taken a leadership role in foreign affairs through his work to expand freedom and his articulation of democratic principles. He was a forceful advocate of President Bush's decision to confront Saddam Hussein's aggression. This weekend DeLay will travel to Israel for a week long trip to the Middle East where he will be speaking at the Knesset on U.S.-Israel solidarity.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=127-07252003

[janx]

1. A hot pink leisure suit?!

Where did that come from?

But note that Delay uses "Howard Dean Democrats" as an all-encompassing term.

I think the right wingnuts have finally realized just a little of what they're up against.

Not a lot...not everything. Just a little. And they don't know what to do with it.

[donco6]

9. Hot pink

Must be a a thinly veiled anti-gay slur, referring to Dean's support of gay rights.

[Khephra]

10. Actually, I think we should all dress up in hot pink outfits

And protest DeLay. Didn't something like that happen in the 2002 election?

[ewagner]

25. Maybe

Maybe he's referring to the one in his closet.....


:evilgrin:

[TlalocW]

2. Fight like McGovern?

I believe McGovern is a decorated war veteran, Delay, you chickenhawk piece of shit.

TlalocW

[DieboldMustDie]

14. McGovern flew 35 bomber missions against the Nazis in WWII

Definately more impressive than anything DeLay, Bush, Cheney et al have done.

[LibInternationalist]

22. HELL yeah --

I'd give anything for a party that would fight like McGovern

[catzies]

3. OMFG, there is so much wrong with that speech and that man,

there simply isn't enough time to refute and rebuke him. That speech is staggering in its ignorance and willful stupidity.

[artr2]

4. But he got probably got a standing ovation from the wingnuts in training.

Tom Delay - voice and spritial leader of the republican party. What a slimy piece of s**t.

[papau]

5. A rewrite of history that US Media will not challenge as they quote him

McGovern really was in a war - unlike AWOL

Carter spending percentage increases were a fraction of Reagan/Bush/Bush levels

Reagan's tax increases - in 82 and 84 and 86 after the ridiculous tax reduction of 81 that was to pay for itself - were the largest in History

and we did not get great economics - even for the little guy - until Clinton raised taxes.

But the US media will let the sound bite go out as if it was truth - and then say "what did I do" when folks say they are right wing biased.

[bloom]

6. The last line seems to sum up where he's (& his party) coming from...

" This weekend DeLay will travel to Israel for a week long trip to the Middle East where he will be speaking at the Knesset on U.S.-Israel solidarity."

[Bandit]

7. and fight like McGovern," DeLay said.

Ummm just how hard did Delay fight when he had the chance? D'oh he couldn't get in because the entire military was filled up with "Minorities". and using McGovern as an example just shows his ignorance. McGovern was a highly decorated war hero. And Delay?? well he dodged successfully.

[flamingyouth]

8. DeLay, of course, is a throwback to the Salem Witch Trials

So he'd probably know a thing or two about throwbacks...

[w4rma]

11. Bush, Sr. left Saddam Hussein in Baghdad

"No responsible leader could have permitted Saddam Hussein to remain in Baghdad, yet the Democrats now spew more rhetoric about President Bush than they ever did about Saddam Hussein," DeLay said.

[annagull]

12. Delay revals true 70's, Nixonian self

Lying to the American people, dirty tricks frm the White House, another useless war with American soldiers dying every day, this is the 21st century? I think Delay and the Repukes are the ones "living in the 70's".

[JohnKleeb]

13. really big government is dead

sniff thats a mighty big defense budget no I dont blame America but I will not hesitant to admit she is wrong when she is wrong. Tom how about we put conservatism where we put it during the depression in our toilets. Liberalism isnt dead and you are gonna see that very soon my French American friend now Delay go to studio 54 and enjoy the drag queens they are waiting for you. Oh so they criticize Bush that makes them liberals woopsoy daisy. Tom you should be out killing bugs like you used to maybe you'll find that job was meant more for you than dissing the better of the two parties. Have fun Delay I am gonna enjoy hearing how the party went.

[aquart]

15. Awww, it ain't dead.

Not as long as Homeland Security lives.

[LoneStarLiberal]

16. The Final Word on Tom Delay

Tom Delay is a joke. An ignorant, bigoted, blow-up clown who history will rightly place next to other conservative luminaries such as Joe McCarthy. People will look back on him with the same mix of shame and disgust that we look back on McCarthy with these days. It will be up to some bleating crone like Ann Coulter to resurrect his name and try to paint him in a different color as our modern day blonde biddy has done for Joe "Jack Daniel" McCarthy.

And all of them will still only be comic material.

[David__77]

17. Taliban Republicans? Modern?

These are clinical neanderthals complaining about temporal warps? Please... That's OK. I hope Mr. DeLay has VERY prominent media presence in the coming months.

[TacticalPeek]

19. exactly...lots of media...

i think this scandal train is building steam and leaving the station soon.

i wish there was a way to lure this chickenhawk out between the rails.

i wonder if he's been dropping down by CIA like Newt and Cheney?

wonder...wonder...wonder if he could be mixed up in that "private" intelligence bunch at OSP, and maybe it's sister bunch in Israel?

maybe he'll slip up on his trip as a go-between or something, anything!

[leesa]

18. This is hysterical! What a fool...and talk about time warps!!

Do you think any of the wingnuts will ever enter the current century? I love it when they send out these fools...it really makes Republicans look BAD.

[jos]

20. Spend like Carter?

Reagan and Shrub spent, and are spending more.

Won't call the party unpatriotic. Bullshit. Of course, he has no problem not calling it by its right name.

Bush is not like Benedict Arnold. Benedict Arnold was not a chickenhawk.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. They've got the White House and both Houses of Congress...

and they're still acting like an embattled minority.

Amazing.

[symbolman]

23. He must still be

HUFFING that bug spray.. just like he did in the Seventies..

hey isn't he the one that had the wierd hot tub parties not too long ago?

idiot, coward, ugly.. his mother must have drank a lot, just look at the way his eyes sit on the sides of his head like a freaking CARP..

[JackSwift]

24. Not one of the pants shitting coward Republican leaders

has ever seen combat. They keep mocking Democratic war heros. What creepy warmongering cowards.

[gulliver]

26. Maybe if DeLay had just been a little more popular with girls...

... in the 70's we would all have been spared the sight of that pug-faced cockroach. DeLay is responsible for so much of what is wrong with Washington, the bitter partisanship, the lobbyist shakedowns, the Republican "green revolution" (where they sold their souls for the green). The guy is a prince among orcs.

[PartyPooper]

27. Benedict Arnold? He was a traitor. George W. is that and more.

* liar
* cheater
* thief
* faux "Christian"
* political hack
* AWOL / desserter
* murderer
* dictator
* war criminal
* LIHOP / MIHOP criminal
* sociopath
* incompetent / illiterate spoiled rich kid who never grew up

In short, he is a despicable human being, and the worst president to ever occupy the White House.

Tom DeLay, you're an idiotic asshole for not recognizing this! You and George deserve each other...as roommates in hell! I hope you have "HOT PINK" wall paper and furniture to make your stay...oh, so comfortable!

:evilgrin:

[stevedeshazer]

28. Dear Tom,

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:iYJ51HHKzmoC:

And the horse you rode in on.

Sincerely,
Stevie

[jamesinca]

29. "If you take it to its logical conclusion"

Yes Mr. Delay we are calling him Benidict Arnold. He has sold this country out, lied to its people, had its citizens killed, raped the economy, and killed the environment. I can say the last one because in todays S.F. Chronicle www.sfgate.com there was an article warning about eating fish from the S.F. bay because of the amount of mercury and other chemicals that are showing up in dangerous levels IN THE FISH. Everybody, have a fish fry and invite your favorite republican.