Hammer time

Um….

I don’t think America needed to see Tom DeLay shake his booty on national television. (I’m sitting with my wife, who watches the show religiously.)

Couldn’t we have just let this guy fade into the sunset, to be remembered as a corrupt partisan who helped drive the conservative movement off a cliff?

A 16 for that dance? Are the judges hoping that DeLay will get his Congressional pals to name an airport after them? Or maybe some federal money for a TV dancing school?

Just too bizarre for words.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

6 thoughts on “Hammer time”

  1. When, if ever, is this scum bag going to be brought to trial for his fraud and corruption charges. He constantly hides behind Jesus and the bible when he gets into trouble. He's an amoral hypocritical jackal.“I tagged him [Obama] as a Marxist months ago,” DeLay boasted during the campaign, recalling his earlier assertions Obama had an “old school Marxist, radical liberal failed ideology.”

  2. from crooksandliars.com (http://crooksandliars.com/node/31442): \”As he awaits trial on money laundering charges, disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom Delay on Monday launched the latest phase of his extremist makeover on ABC's \”Dancing with the Stars.\” Two years after publishing his book and 18 months after starting the Coalition for a Conservative Majority, Delay turned to the Cha Cha to complete his resurrection. Which is altogether fitting for the man who repeatedly compared himself to Jesus Christ.Delay's Christ complex first manifested itself in 2001 as he explained to the Washington Post the opposition to his none-too-subtle campaign to bring his fundamentalism to the United States Congress. \”People hate the messenger,\” Delay announced, adding, \”That's why they killed Christ.\” On the day of his booking five years later, Delay told Time he prayed:\”Let people see Christ through me.\”\”

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