DeLay is Pathologically Obsessed With Chris Bell

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In today's Houston Chronicle, DeLay uses these cute words to describe Chris Bell, Democratic candidate for governor of Texas: preening, dishonest, obsessive, indulgent in self flattery, egotistic, pathological.

Tom, Tom, Tom - I think you are so used to thinking these things about yourself that they are spilling out of your head, out of your mouth and you are accidentally using them to characterize other perfectly fine people!

On Easter Sunday! A fairy tale for Easter. A supposedly deeply Christian man is name-calling on Easter Sunday. Imagine that. Plus, it irritates me that he is whipping out the "U.S. REP Tom DeLay" moniker when he wants to write a LTE to the Chronicle, when in reality he is cutting and running and leaving TX-22 without representation in Congress.

http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/3795201.html

DeLay responds to Bell

Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

CHRIS Bell's April 9 Outlook article, "WITHOUT DELAY / Next, fix ethics mess in Texas / Add reform to special session call," is a case study in exactly why he lost his seat in Congress last year and why he has no chance of winning his race for governor this year. Like Bell, his op-ed was preening, dishonest and disturbingly obsessed with, well, me.

First of all, he incorrectly — and egotistically — asserted that he somehow played a role in my decision to leave Congress. Unless he is admitting to unethical and illegal coordination with Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, no unemployed liberal peacock (even one as indulgent in self-flattery as he is) had anything to do with my decision.

Secondly, Bell conveniently never mentioned that it was he — not I — who was cited by the ethics committee as having broken House rules.

And finally Bell's entire op-ed, while ostensibly about legislative priorities for the upcoming session, was really all about me. He has had a psychologically curious fixation on me ever since his Democratic constituents threw him out of office in an embarrassing primary defeat in 2004.

Texans voting for governor this November deserve a campaign that's about ideas, but so far they're not getting that from the Democratic nominee. Bell would like Texans to think he's somehow running against me, but, as usual, he's just running his mouth.

U.S. REP. TOM DELAY Sugar Land