Molly Ivins: Manners, by Tom DeLay

[Dudley_DUright]

Spring fever is taking a weird form this year. Politicians say nice things for political reasons and then revert with a vengeance -- a sort of political Tourette syndrome, they can't help what they say.

Tom DeLay, of all people, recently issued a fatwa on the need for good manners, a concept so bizarre there is no appropriate comparison. Let's reserve it as a future simile: "... as weird as the time Tom DeLay gave us all a lecture on manners."

In his new role as the Emily Post of politics, DeLay informed us, "It is unfortunate in our electoral system, exacerbated by our adversarial media culture, that political discourse has to get so overheated, that it's not just arguments, but motives are questioned." Did someone question his motive in taking an all-expenses-paid vacation from a lobbyist?

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As to DeLay's claim of a vast left-wing conspiracy out to destroy the conservative movement, nonsense. I like conservatives. They're opposed to all questionable adventures abroad and for fiscal prudence and responsibility. It's right-wing nuts I can't stand.

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18919

[patrice]

1. I like *real* Conservatives too; lived with one most of my life.

I am a liberal, but I am not an absolutist, so I know I need honest Conservatives around, and they need me, in order to stay grounded in Reality.

[alarimer]

2. the problem is honest conservatives are hard to find these days

The party has been totally taken over by far-right fascists.

[struggle4progress]

3. "Bugsy" DeLay in his own words. eom

[muchacho]

4. whack talk

"This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS. Not only do you kick him -- you kick him until he passes out, then beat him over the head with a baseball bat, then roll him up in an old rug and throw him off a cliff into the pound(ing) surf below!!!!!" That gem was in a DeLay staff email about Clinton's impeachment.

what a clown! Too many episodes of the Sopranos for bug-boy!

and no, we don't want him back in Texas!