Lobbyist's Credit Card Bill Outs DeLay Trip

When Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and his wife flew from Houston to a golf resort in Scotland in June 2000, the first-class airfare cost $14,001, a big-ticket item for a public servant. But someone else paid.
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Delay doesn't consider himself a public servant. He thinks of himself as a Prince or perhaps a carnival barker. The public are his "marks." He is not about to serve a public he despises, a peasant class to whomhe views himself as superior.

DeLay's attorney told The Washington Post last year that DeLay was unaware of the "logistics" of bill payments and did not believe Abramoff paid for the tickets.
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Of course not. None of them ever know a thing. The most consistent position all repiglikkkans take is ignorance of their misdeeds and crimes.


An ABC News hidden camera recorded Abramoff greeting and hugging DeLay as he arrived in the northern Marianas.
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That may be simply because Delay doesn't actually KNOW Abramoff all that well, or know what he was up to, so Abramoff was trying to get next to Tom, literally. Or they were having an affair.

Officials told ABC News that the first congressman to be indicted for bribery is expected to be Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio.

But if the legal process works he will not be the last congressmen indicted and convicted. We could have cell blocks full of smarmy, pig eyed, self righteous repiglikkkan officials doing time for the voluminous crimes none of them know they've committed.

I was recently bothered in a locker room by an intrusive republican retard who subscribes to the party position that no republican actually knows anything about the crimes they commit or their legendary lapses in judgment. Republicans are apparently born innocent and remain that way, in strange contradiction to their state religion, Protestantism, which teaches we are all born bad and only the wealthy are saved.

Anyway, a friend and I were discussing, while changing, what a fearless leader Bush is when this retard, uninvited, chimed in with how we must respect the president even if we disagree with him (what the hell is wrong with these idiots? What is it we are to respect? How hard he worked to get in office? His stunning performance?) and how we don't know that he wasn't lied to by his advisors and that is why he has performed so poorly.

The obvious fact that his disastrous performance right down the line on every single thing from allowing terrorists to successfully strike to lying to get the country to agree to an immoral illegal invasion and occupation to allowing New Orleans to languish to the economic and political destruction of America, etc., if occasioned by lies of advisors, is so long standing, deep and pervasive he should at least FIRE said advisors, doesn't enter into Foxwashed little sausage stuffed, porker heads.

And if he is so weak and inattentive advisors could do that, he certainly has no business in the office of president. But he wasn't ill advised anyway. The chimp has done exactly what he wanted to do, fuck the country over for money, so I pointed out to the porker that she ought to do some reading about issues. She responded to this suggestion by telling me her husband teaches Sunday School and Middle school history and he believes Bush is innocent. Then she stomped off in true Christian fashion.

Very weird.
I'm sure she and her husband have both contributed heavily to the Tom Delay and Scooter Libby defense funds in the tithing basket at church.