Au revoir, Tom.
By on Jun 6th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Au revoir, Tom.
Rep. Tom Delay’s “fellow Texas GOP House members chose an expensive contemporary French restaurant in Washington, Le Paradou, to toast the outgoing 22-year congressman Tuesday night in a private dinner.” But DeLay’s spokeswoman “was unhappy with any references to the restaurant as French”: “This is an American restaurant that serves French cuisine.”
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A rose by any other name would still be FRENCH…
Sheesh, no wonder these guys think they have no issues to resolve except banning burning flags and gay marriage…
June 6th, 2006 at 12:05 pmIT’s a French Restaurant. Bye Tom.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:06 pmI hope DeLay ate escargot and they told him they were scallops.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:12 pmVa te faire foutre Tom! (Or the boys behind bars can take care of that). I’ll bet people will be be able to figure out the French there in this expression, but remember I’m only an American using a French expression.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:15 pmMorons.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:15 pmhey, but they serve Freedom Foie Gras here
June 6th, 2006 at 12:16 pmSure, Le Paradou, it’s, uh, english for, uh, LYING LIARS LIE.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:22 pmLook Tom DeLay thinks a French restaurant means he has class, but he is a former cockroach killer so he should hang out in a greazy spoon restaurant that is full of roaches!
June 6th, 2006 at 12:25 pm>lol.
brie and croissants
it was a standard snack everyday during break time at the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Where does America get these ‘Republicans’?
‘Republicans’ Right. I wish they would dry up and blow away. They don’t deserve to live in America.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:30 pmWe’ll start off with some Freedom Cheese and a bottle of your best Freedom Wine, followed by Freedom Snails, a side of Freedom Bread, and for our entree well have, ummm… this menu is confusing… does anyone here speak Freedom?
Now let’s all sing “Proud to Be An American!” That’ll teach those frogs to try and talk us out of invading Iraq!
June 6th, 2006 at 12:34 pmFrenchy frenchy Tom Delay.
pepe le pu?
June 6th, 2006 at 12:40 pmIt’s French, bitch.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:42 pm-Stephen Colbert
I wonder who picked up Tom’s tab now that Abramoff’s in the slammer?
June 6th, 2006 at 12:50 pmYou mean to tell me they didn’t go to Saipan and buy some prostitutes for Tom courtesy of Jack Abramoff? For shame, all he got was some French food. Cheapskates.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:54 pmIdiots to the end…
Tommy boy won’t be calling them freedom fries from the slammer.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:00 pm[...] Think Progress » Au revoir, Tom. [...]
June 6th, 2006 at 1:08 pmAn American restaurant that serves French cuisine. God, that’s rich. And Tom DeLay is an evil demon that walks and talks like a human being.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:11 pmThat’s the “Hard Core American To The End” defense that’s become popular with felons.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:12 pmAmon Goeth, the Nazi commander of Krakow in the movie Schindler’s List, saying “Heil Hitler!” as the chair is being pulled from under his feet with a rope around his neck…
well, taco bell is an american restaurant that serves a bad imitation of mexican food.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:24 pmYeah and Mercedes owners are driving American cars made in Germany. And Phuck Po is an American deli that serves Vietnamese sandwiches. Playstation owners are playing on an American console made in Japan.
Do these guys feel compelled to lie about every little aspect of their lives? Down to the minutest detail?
June 6th, 2006 at 1:24 pmwell, then taco bell is an american restaurant that serves bad mexican cuisine.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:25 pmIn a stunning new development, the Republicans declared today that Lawrence Welk hated America, because each Lawrence Welk show ended with a song that contained the phrase “au revoir”.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:31 pmAnd Tom Delay is not a Dirty A**hole Politician….he’s just a Dirty A**hole who happens to be a politician.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:38 pmWhile Tom is eating pomme frites, or Freedom Fries with his eacargo, I hope he has a chance to ponder the reasons he has become such a pain in the ass to the Republican Party. He got caught! Theives have no problem associating with theives, but they really try to stay away from those that get caught.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:40 pmAre these republican a-holes still on that French nonsense? They just love making the United States look bad, don’t they. Can’t help themselves. Idiots. And, a going-away party for Tom Delay? Send his ass to prison now.
June 6th, 2006 at 2:04 pm#15 – Tommy boy won’t be calling them freedom fries from the slammer.
Comment by Morgan
No, he’ll be calling them currency.
June 6th, 2006 at 2:52 pmThey lie not because it is in their favor, but because it is in their nature.
June 6th, 2006 at 2:53 pmThis is so damn funny. They’re so desparate they put spin on the restaurants they eat at.
June 6th, 2006 at 3:02 pm#22, Lawrence Welk hated America also because his show was on PBS.
June 6th, 2006 at 4:21 pm[...] Tom Delay n’aime pas les restaurants Français. Il aime les restaurants Américains qui servent la nourriture française. [...]
June 6th, 2006 at 5:19 pmDid they eat young children for dinner?
June 6th, 2006 at 6:09 pmLe Paradou is probably the most French restaurant on the east coast. The last time I ate there it was painfully French – almost the entire wait staff *are* French, they have accents thicker than any I’ve encountered in France, and they all act like the clientele just walked out from under a rock.
On the upside, Le Paradou is incredibly overpriced, the annoying French waiters are mostly assholes, and the food is generic I-stole-this-idea-from-some-restaurant-in-Napa fare, so it’s a safe bet that Tom Delay’s going away lunch wasn’t very enjoyable. If those people were really Tom Delay’s friends they would have had the decency to go somewhere good.
June 6th, 2006 at 6:15 pmGriping about all things French won’t get him even one day’s reprieve in the Big House, because prison to Tom Delay might as well be like a dead man walking experience.
June 6th, 2006 at 9:22 pmIf (and when) Dems take back the House and Senate…
…their SECOND act should be…
…to povertize Tom DeLay and every right wing, conservative Bushite TRAITOR in America…
…seeing Tom having to pick fruit or lettuce for aliving would do this country (and the world) a helluva lot of good…
June 7th, 2006 at 9:30 amMan, that made my day. I always love it when Republicans show the world just how stupid they are.
Under the guidelines of DeLay’s spokesperson, then there aren’t any “Chinese restaurants”, just American restaurants that serve Chinese food. Sheesh!!
I will be relieved when we can rid ourselves of Republican rule and restore some sanity to our political process. The inanity of the whole “boycott France” thing spearheaded by the chickenhawks in the GOP apparently still extends to today. So much political capital wasted on vilifying a long time ally of the United States and one of our largest trading partners – WASTED!! In fact, our imports from France INCREASED despite the “freedom fry” mentality of the ignorant GOP.
June 7th, 2006 at 11:10 amFor another take on this story, check out JABBS.
June 8th, 2006 at 3:12 pm