Revisiting DeLay's College Years
DeLay has history with two Texas schools he criticized
Kudos to the DLC bunch for unearthing an online reference to Tom DeLay's colorful history with Baylor and Texas A&M. Interesting quotage here that sparks a new thought, though:
"He was asked not to reregister" at Baylor, Grella acknowledged. "When the congressman was younger, his extra-curricular activities got him in trouble. He had a vigorous social life and accepts the consequences of his actions."
That's nice to know that DeLay accepts the consequences of his actions ... but my question is this: What consequenses?
Asked if those actions took place at A&M during DeLay's student days, Grella told the Standard: "Yeah. ... They played some pranks."Baylor's disciplinary action turned out well, Grella reported. "He has said they did him a favor."
DeLay became friends with Baylor Vice President W.C. Perry, who expelled DeLay but later supported his run for Congress, Grella said.
The lesson here is simple ... commit enough debauchery on a college campus and you too may win over campus administrators for your political endeavors and rise to the position of most corrupt politician in America. If you're really lucky, though, you'll belong to a party that rewards that behavior.
That's some consequences, I gotta say.
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It is high time that the Democrats did to DeLay what Gingrich did to Jim Wright and Tony Coehlo. I think that the Bull Moose on the DLC Website puts things very well:
"The Moose can attest that the GOP Congress increasingly has the odor of the old Democratic Congress before the fall - or as the Wall Street Journal described the Bug Man - 'Smells Like Beltway.' To the relief of the Moose, the denizens of the right are sticking with DeLay. The Washington Post reports,"
'House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) challenged his liberal critics yesterday to [bring it on,] as major conservative groups organized a formal defense against questions about DeLay's ethical conduct.'
'The groups -- led by David A. Keene of the American Conservative Union and including the Heritage Foundation, Leadership Institute and Family Research Council -- met privately with DeLay last week and pledged to use their grass-roots databases and networks to try to mitigate the damage from news accounts of DeLay's travel and relationships with lobbyists.'
"By linking their fate to DeLay's, the right will soon share the stench of the Bug Man."
"Democrats must now be the odor eaters. The Congressional Republicans are slavishly subservient to the special interests of corporate power and the religious right. Increasingly, the GOP appears to be shrill and extreme when they aren't busy shilling for big money."
I agree with the Bull Moose. The Democratic Party must go on the attack against the Gilded Age-style pandemic corruption of the Bush-Cheney Administration and their plutocratic allies. Indeed, the Democratic Party must drive the money changers out of the Temple of American Democracy. We must start with Tom "the Bug Man" DeLay.