DeLay said a Bush better than a Kennedy

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DeLay said a Bush better than a Kennedy

THIS SHOWS WHY THE US GOVERNMENT IS SO MESSED UP.

The gall of that bug-exterminating, mother-hating, draft-dodging, hair-dying unctuous turd Tom DeLay is astounding. The sick mind of DeLay implies the unelected moron fronting the BFEE makes more of a military leader than Sen. Ted Kennedy. His rationale? Make the DEMs look weak on national security, even if he has to LIE. Delay quote is courtesy of NYT's Paul Krugman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/opinion/29KRUG.html

DU: KNOW YOUR ENEMY! PEOPLE LIKE DELAY DON'T GIVE A HOOT IN HECK ABOUT AMERICA.

Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, said in a speech last week: "To gauge just how out of touch the Democrat leadership is on the war on terror, just close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy landing that Navy jet on the deck of that aircraft carrier."

Here's what DeLay and the other chickenhawk arch-criminal conservatives did when it was their turn to serve:

http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks.html

Hey DeLay! Bush is a deserter. Which would you rather follow? BTW, the Kennedy family has done more for America than all the Bushes put together ever will or can. All four of Joseph P. Kennedy's sons served in the uniforms of the US armed forces. Three served in WW2. Joe Jr. died and, for a while, JFK was MIA. RFK was an enlisted man in the USN. For those who don't know, Ted is a veteran of the US Army.

Tom DeLay Bonus Fix:

Tom Delay, chicken extraordinaire

Delay is but one of many prominent right-wingers who love to shriek endlessly about 'patriotism' and 'serving one's country', but do so only when there is absolutely no risk to their own flabby hides. According to an article in the Houston Press:

"Clutching a pole topped by a drooping American flag, 22nd District two-termer Tom DeLay launched into a rather implausible defense of Dan Quayle, an Indiana senator freshly picked by George Bush as his presidential ticket partner...DeLay seemed to feel the issue applied personally to him, and perhaps it did. He had graduated from the University of Houston at the height of the Vietnam conflict in 1970, but chose to enlist in the war on cockroaches, fleas and termites as the owner of an exterminator business, rather than going off to battle against the Vietcong. He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention. "Who was that idiot?" asked a TV reporter who arrived at the end of the media show. When he was told the name, it drew a blank. DeLay at that time was a national nobody, and his claim that blacks and browns crowded him and other good conservatives out of Vietnam seemed so outlandish and self-serving that no one bothered to file a news report on the congressman's remarks..."

from: Which Bug Gets the Gas? Will the next house DeLay fumigates be that big White one or his own?

BY TIM FLECK
Jan. 7, 1999

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/1999-01-07/columns2.html/1/index.html

But this was only one of Tommy's excuses...other sources quote him as saying that he did not serve because his wife didn't want him to. It's probably sexist to refer to someone as "henpecked", but it's also irresistible.