Tom DeLay’s Cigar Problem
Tom DeLay’s Cigar Problem
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Karen Tumulty reports:
[S]ome sharp-eyed TIME readers were surprised last week to see a photo of the Majority Leader smoking one of Cuba’s best–a Hoyo de Monterrey double corona… The photo was taken in Jerusalem on July 28, 2003, during a meeting between DeLay and the Republican Jewish Coalition
Last year, Tom DeLay had some nasty things to say about people who engage in this kind of behavior:
Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay warned that Fidel Castro “will take the money. Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro’s blood-thirsty hands…. American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor.”
To be fair, Tom DeLay may not have put any money “into Fidel Castro’s blood-thirsty hands.” There’s always a chance Jack Abramoff bought the cigar for him.
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April 27th, 2005 at 10:15 pmAmerican consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor.â€?———-Since when has Delay understood the concept of honor or applied it to himself? This is yet another example of his hypocrisy. I think he embodies the statement, “do as I SAY, not as I do” just like the rest of his cohorts. Sure is enjoying one f-i-n-e cigar…….
April 27th, 2005 at 5:57 pmoh no! Some liberal activist snuck a Cuban cigar into his hand! Bob Novak will get to the bottom of this and make sure the appropriate liberal reporters go to jail for this offense.
April 27th, 2005 at 6:09 pmCan he put on his $500 loafers without breaking the law?
April 27th, 2005 at 6:15 pm this guy kills me.
April 27th, 2005 at 8:21 pmIsn’t it illegal for an american citizen to smoke cuban cigars? I remember seeing that law mentioned quite a few times…
April 27th, 2005 at 8:49 pm“American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor.”
Does Mr. DeLay understand that he just insulted 32 million Canadians — along with the citizens of every other country that openly trades with Cuba?
Here in my new country, I can walk downtown and pick up Cohibas and Montecristos by the box…and pick up some cheap Cuban sugar while I’m at it. (I can also legally grow Oriental poppies in my front yard, but that’s another conversation.)
How kind of your Speaker to inform us that we have no national honor left. We’re lucky to have such a renowned expert on the subject of honor to point it out to us. Otherwise, we’d have never noticed it was missing.
April 28th, 2005 at 3:14 amIt’s nice to know Tom DeLay’s concept of “national honor” is based on continuing multimillion dollar subsidies for rich sugar growers in Florida. Why do these subsidies exist, you ask? Why, because the sugar growers are big campaign donors and most people only pay a few cents extra a year in order to… give free money to rich sugar barons. But hey, at least they’re not Castro.
April 28th, 2005 at 9:53 amI love Canada…I hope you all know our “President” does not speak for many of us.
April 28th, 2005 at 9:56 amDelay….the ultimate sleezeball and hypocrit.
Unfortunately, the “liberal” media won’t go after DeLay the same way the went after Clinton, when he was caught using a cigar.
April 28th, 2005 at 11:18 amThe last time I checked a cigar like that was in the $250-$275 range. And they don’t sell them at Wal~Mart!
April 28th, 2005 at 11:22 am“This man has an oral problem” with a cigar and without.
April 28th, 2005 at 11:24 amYou can almost hear the thoughts rolling around in that empty head of his … “I did not inhale” … “It depends on what your definition of a Cuban is” … “Hey, if it’s good enough for Bubba” … “No one will ever pay attention to the cigar, just that stupid reflection on my forehead. Yep it happens every time I go out without my make-up on” … “Lord you have to love globalism. I wonder if it will tast the same once these Jews put their own labels on them” …
April 28th, 2005 at 11:34 amI want to know what that guy standing next to Delay is doing. Looks like he’s waiting to take a drag….
April 28th, 2005 at 11:47 amIt only counts if he was holding hands with the other fella in the picture….
April 28th, 2005 at 11:50 amDeLay is “scum” as everyone who has followed his career knows.
April 28th, 2005 at 12:10 pmhe looks like a high-rolling hood out of some mafioso film.
April 28th, 2005 at 12:15 pmAs Freud said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” But not this one. It’s the stigmata of a hypocritical scoundrel.
April 28th, 2005 at 12:40 pmWhy should DeLay be different from his president? Uniter, not divider; WMD’s; aluminum tubes; Clean Air Act; etc. ad. infinitum. They say the opposite of what they do. And Connie Rice is their master spin doctor. She can twist anything to make it look the opposite of what it is.
April 28th, 2005 at 12:41 pmAd Hominem arguments do little more than bolster the poster’s ego, makes the poster appear puerile, and invalidates the original argument.
Can we expect better critical thought in this forum?
April 28th, 2005 at 12:56 pmhope this photo makes it way to the ethics committee
April 28th, 2005 at 1:05 pm#20
and your contributed example of better critical thinking is……………
April 28th, 2005 at 2:13 pm#22 Thank you for proving my point.
April 28th, 2005 at 2:20 pmI have it on reliable information that the person posting the original comment has also partaken of Cuban cigars while on a trip to Bermuda in August, 1999. In addition to pointing out DeLay’s obvious hypocrisy, I believe the writer may also be just a little bit of jealous of DeLay’s access to these superior smokes. Hasta La Victoria Siempre
April 28th, 2005 at 3:14 pm#23
April 28th, 2005 at 3:17 pmYou have not yet contributed an example of “better critical thinking.”
There’s probably more to this than what Time’s reporting — I’ve got details on my blog.
April 28th, 2005 at 5:16 pmYet again another example of “the rules apply to everyone else but me” ideology of this administration.
April 28th, 2005 at 6:12 pmTom is just following the mantra of the party of me (republican) which is “What’s bad for you is good for me.”
WalMart would find a way to sell this $250 cigar for $5 and stick the tax payers for the other $245.
April 28th, 2005 at 7:15 pmTom Delay sucks a mean cigar. I wonder if he knows Jeff Gannon, personally that is?
April 29th, 2005 at 12:15 amWhatever this guy says, just know that the exact opposite is true.
April 29th, 2005 at 12:32 amTom DeLay is as rotten and as contemptuous of representative democracy as anyone now in the House or Senate.
Everything the House does this term is tainted, even corrupted, so long as DeLay is Speaker.
I can’t figure why all our Representatives sit on their thumbs while DeLay’s impeachment and removal from office should be an obvious top priority. Is the House just a bunch of fluffy but toothless (and gutless) poodles ? I’m sorry to say it is.
April 29th, 2005 at 3:57 am“Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
-Abraham Lincoln-
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
-Harry Truman-
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
-James Madison-
“A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.”
April 29th, 2005 at 8:28 am-Benjamin Franklin-
Nothing more than usual Republican hypocrisy when it comes to their so-called morals. Their morals suit them just fine when it advances their ridiculous agenda, but, the minute these morals become inconvienient to the likes of Delay, see how quickly they abandon or ignore them. Delay’s days are numbered.
April 29th, 2005 at 2:05 pmIt is illegal to buy or sell Cuban cigars in the USA. It is legal to go to another country and buy them, but don’t bring them home.
(Mayhap the *real* reason lighters were banned on airlines.)
*makes note of the number of crimes committed in California by criminals armed with .50 caliber rifles is the same as the number of airline hijackings/downings by criminals armed with cigarette lighters*
“How much is one minus one ?”
“Don’t be impertinent !”
April 29th, 2005 at 6:03 pmHow the hell did it get so bad? We have a government of, by, and for, liars, thugs, and crooks, presided over by a hapless twit with all the charm, elegance, and polish of a medieval swineherd. It’d be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
May 1st, 2005 at 7:32 pmLet’s get Congress working again…without DeLay!
May 2nd, 2005 at 9:51 amI too would love to think that this photo of DeLay makes it to the ethics committee, but unfortunately, Hypocrisy, even DeLay’s virulent strain of it, is not really much of a liability around the Hill these days.
In fact, the very idea of ETHICS amongst the Bill Frist/ Tom Delay cadre seems like an oxymoron.
May 5th, 2005 at 5:03 pmHOGES GET FAT PIGS GET SLAUGHTER, THIS WILL BE ONE BAR-B QUE I DON’T WANT TO MISS.
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“Republicans Exploit Foster Kids to Get Around New Campaign Finance Laws”
THE COVER UP !
http://www.fcr4kids.org/newsletters/September_October%202004%20FCR%20Newsletter.pdf
http://txcfr.org/ Texas Judges Ethics Complaints
http://liftingtheveil.org/falsification.htm
“Falsification of Records”
“Chamber of Secrets”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/48hours/main674950.shtml
“Secrets and Lies” – Dateline
“In the Care of Evil” – Dateline
STATE SPONSORED CHILD ABUSE FOR REAL RACKATEERING DOLLARS !!!!!!! COVERED UP ASK BY WHO TAKE A WILD DIST 22 GUESS WHO !!!
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Please visit the sites in the field of high school foreign exchange programs
October 30th, 2005 at 5:00 pmThis is typical of the criminal element that has somehow infiltrated our government and every big business in the country. Tom DeLay and the rest of the common criminals running the country have a disdain for America and what she represents. Honor, integrity, opportunity, freedom for all are words they despise in their greed and lust for power.
January 12th, 2006 at 11:06 pmThese modern day Benedict Arnolds (traitors) need to be impeached and sent to jail. If nobody has the integrity to take them on, then we need to vote them all out of office. I say we vote against everyone who holds office and keep voting them out until they give us back America.
An Hoyo de Monerrey like that runs about 15 dollars not 200 or more in fact you can get a box of 25 for about 300 dollars or a little less.
February 7th, 2006 at 7:47 amHoyo De Monterrey; sorry for the typo.
February 7th, 2006 at 7:49 amI dont know if you realize it or not, but Hoyo De Monterrey while it does have a factory in Cuba also makes cigars in Honduras and they are perfectly legal to buy and sell in the US.
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July 12th, 2006 at 11:46 amYou can smoke any cuban cigar that you want in the US. The only requirement is that it has to be made from pre embargo tobacco. That means that cuban cigars made before 1962 are fine as are any stores of tobacco from cuba that was imported before then. I know of one company that is selling “new” legal cuban cigars made from a stockpile that has been stored in a warehouse since 1962. Plus since the tobacco that cigars are made from gets better as it is aged I’m looking to get some of the cubans the company is selling.
September 8th, 2006 at 4:43 pmIt is NOT illegal to use a Cuban product for a US citizen when he is abroad.
This hype is typical of the liberal crowd who manly are against the embargo to begin with.
Let’s not forget though JFK, who declared the embargo but asked his press secretary Peter Sallinger to go and by him a supply of 100 sticks before he signed the law.
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January 10th, 2007 at 7:01 am