With God At The Four Seasons
With God At The Four Seasons
In April, 2002, Tom DeLay told a church crowd, “He [God] has been walking me through an incredible journey…He is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me, He is working with me.”
No word on whether God was with DeLay during his luxurious vacation at the Four Seasons Hotel in London in mid-2000, paid for by corrupt GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. This weekend, the National Journal provided new detail on the close, personal and grotesquely unethical relationship between DeLay and Abramoff. According to expense accounts obtained by the Journal, Abramoff financed DeLay and DeLay’s staff’s stay at the Four Seasons hotel in mid-2000, to the tune of $4,285.35. The total reimbursement for expenses in London was $13,318.50.
Abramoff is best known for his unethical work with right-wing religious fundamentalist Ralph Reed – the two of them teamed up to help Texas shut a casino operated by the Tigua Indians in 2002, then persuaded the tribe to pay them $4.2 million to lobby Washington lawmakers, including DeLay, to reopen it.
“To the casual observer, it was a pretty simple deal,” a former House leadership aide told the Journal, after being shown details of the London transaction. “Jack raised money for the pet projects of DeLay and took care of his top staff. In turn, they granted him tremendous access and allowed him to freely trade on DeLay’s name.”
DeLay’s “incredible journey” continues today in a Travis County courthouse, where God’s instrument will find himself the “focus of attention” of a civil trial involving allegations of illegal campaign contributions to Republican members of the Texas House. Two of DeLay’s major political operatives in Washington and another political ally in Texas were indicted last year in a grand jury investigation, accused of participating in a scheme to make illegal corporate donations to Republican candidates for the Legislature.
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How does DeLay get away with? We really need to get our acts together and put the heat on this guy. If we can’t make hay out of this we really are sunk.
February 28th, 2005 at 11:36 amWhat about Sen. “Chappacwittic” Kennedy’s all expense paid trip to Paris for the opening of an exhibit of Jackie O’s wardrobe? I don’t hear you libs whining about that! If you think that Republicans are the only corrupt members of congress, you are living in a fantasy world!
February 28th, 2005 at 11:36 amIt takes one to know one,Robert!
February 28th, 2005 at 1:14 pmIf Ted thinks two wrongs make a right, he thinks wrong. Right?
February 28th, 2005 at 1:25 pmjust pointing out the hypocracy, Vinilo.
February 28th, 2005 at 1:39 pmFYI, “Ted,” it’s spelt “ChappaquidDICK.” (TP has also removed one of your previous posts as well, for the record.)
February 28th, 2005 at 1:41 pmjust musing…
February 28th, 2005 at 1:46 pmif the hammer is his evangelist, sort of his john the baptist, is w the antichrist?
Ted – typical Republican Orwellspeak. You can’t deny bad things said against something you support, so you try to change the subject.
We aren’t as dumb as you apparently like being.
February 28th, 2005 at 1:50 pmHey Robert, why don’t you take a long ride off of a short bridge with the Senator!
February 28th, 2005 at 2:17 pmI’m sorry I don’t spell as well as all of you, I am the product of a public school. We all know how the left has systematically destroyed public education in this country with the help of the teachers unions. So don’t blame me for my own shortcommings.
February 28th, 2005 at 2:24 pmwow ted, i can’t believe you said that!
February 28th, 2005 at 2:34 pmyou are not responsible for your own “shortcommings,” but i suppose you take full responsiblity for all your acheivements? you are not entitled to do so, of course, and you are a programmed automaton. folks, there’s no point in debating this guy…
C’mon, people, you know what not to do with trolls.
February 28th, 2005 at 3:14 pmso back to something more constructive then…
February 28th, 2005 at 3:20 pmis w the antichrist?
Isn’t DeLay also very close to a Christian Reconstruction organization? CR is a theocratic, anti-democracy, anti-most everthing not extreme right wing movement founded by Rousas John Rushdoony. Slavery, on the other hand, is one of God’s more “beneficiant” laws, as one article in Christianity Today if memory serves, put it.
February 28th, 2005 at 3:43 pmHah hah hah! Teddy Kennedy drove off a bridge and Bill Clinton got a blow-job…so, like, you lose.
Oh, yeah…and Vince Foster is dead and Roosevelt was a cripple! Get over it and STFU, you whining Liberal bedwetter Socialists!
(Sorry. This is my first day as a right-wing troll, so I’m just cutting and pasting from the Freeper manual. I’ll try to be more inventive in the future. However, please be advised that any degenerate, criminal act performed by a Republican is morally acceptable, because Clinton lied under oath and Hillary is a skank. Oh, and Harry Truman nuked Japan and fired Douglas MacArthur. So there. Ipso facto, QED. I win again!)
March 1st, 2005 at 2:55 am‘Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions’ (Luke 12:13–15, NASB).
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