DeLay on the 109th Congress: ‘Conservatives Don’t Go To’ Washington To ‘Pass Laws’
DeLay on the 109th Congress: ‘Conservatives Don’t Go To’ Washington To ‘Pass Laws’
The 109th Congress set a record for the fewest number of days worked – 218 between the House and Senate combined. As of last October, only 16 percent of Americans approved of the job Congress was doing. 85 percent of Americans wish Congress had accomplished more this year. And last week, lawmakers left town without passing “nine out of 11 appropriations bills needed to fully fund federal activity for the 2007 fiscal year.”
The reason? Conservatives are supposed to be lazy. At least that’s what Tom DeLay told The Hill in an interview yesterday:
Conservatives don’t go to pass laws. Only in this town do you count the number of bills you pass and are signed by the president as a success. I count the fewer bills the best and those bills ought to be repealed instead of passing.
By DeLay’s logic, the 109th must have been the most conservative Congress in history.
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And who keeps interviewing this A-number one A-hole?
December 14th, 2006 at 12:57 pmThey certainly didn’t pass many laws, just that torture thing and giving money to the wealthy, Halliburton and all their friends and took away more of our civil liberties.
Conservative, my butt. Delay is a disgrace, and his party, too.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:58 pmI agree with a comment from yesterday. I am sick of seeing these Bozos with pursed lips, like they know how bad they are, but everyone is just going to have to swallow the jism anyway.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:59 pmConservatives shouldn’t go to DC, they should start blogs.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:59 pmHow dare Americans require Conservatives to work!!
December 14th, 2006 at 12:59 pmStill haven’t figured out why you were indicted, eh Tom?
December 14th, 2006 at 1:01 pmThe comment is clearly suggesting smaller government. The GOP forgot that portion of the conservative ideology and has paid for it. Hopefully they will get back to the idea of smaller government and we will all be in a better place.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:03 pmAn actual comment from tomdelay.com, addressed to Greg Tinti, who seems to be writing the blog:
Greg-
I see you’ve written many to most of the articles here today. Does Tom write any of them, or is there some sort of sceduling conflict? When do we here from Tom himself?
Ann
DeLay: I don’t start a blog to do any writing on that blog…
December 14th, 2006 at 1:05 pmHey Tom, did you clean out all that old inventory in the shed from your bug killing business before you set up the computor to do the weblog………..?
December 14th, 2006 at 1:07 pmTom is right, conservatives don’t go to Washington to pass legislation, but to get rich! The law passing part is necessary only because it’s the vehicle for getting money, otherwise, they would just relax at the country club all day.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:08 pmHopefully they will get back to the idea of smaller government and we will all be in a better place.
Comment by Kevin
Sorry Kevin, people do what works for them.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:09 pmThis is working for the GOP.
Well that explains why someone else is writing his blog.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:10 pmOnly in this town do you count the number of bills you pass and are signed by the president as a success.
Unless you are a Republican talking about John Kerry, i guess.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:10 pm.
#7..
December 14th, 2006 at 1:11 pmI agree, I also got that same drift as to what Mr. DeLay was trying to say. Seems he is unable to articulate in a clear fashion….
(please refer to my previous comment…)
Conservatives don’t go to Congress to pass laws, they go to break them.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:12 pmKevin sez:
The comment is suggesting nothing of the sort, Kevin. It’s merely more mealy-mouthed doublespeak from a neocon criminal who is trying to portray his and his colleagues’ spectacular failure to do their jobs as something laudable.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:12 pmPersonally, I think it’s very sporting of the liberal communist mainstream media like Fox to give Congressman Tom a platform to spout his courageous views before they totes him off to the pokey.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:12 pmWHY do THEY all look alike?????
December 14th, 2006 at 1:12 pmTom knows what he’s talking about. As Jack, Ralph and Grover gave him money to not pass bills that would stop slave work. Then the Bug man is all about stealing lying and using God’s name to rob people. Tom is looking to get back to work and change the country so we would have slaves working in the United States. This man Tom DeLay came from beiing Bug man to the biggest liar and crook in the history of America as the religious right follow his every word. Tom is like Judas as he smiles and then stabs you in the back. I guess he needs money for those steak dinners no that Jack is in jail. America was formed because King George was getting rich of the people so now Tom has picked up that play book.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:15 pmHe’s right. Conservatives don’t go to Washington to pass laws. They go to diddle little boys.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:16 pmGo to his new site. It’s hilarious. I get in Zell Miller mode and post all sorts of crazy right wing lunacy (lots of competition though) and they eat it up. BTW he looks a lot younger now, maybe unemployment agrees with him. Can’t wait to see what regular prison workouts and plently of sodomy and fellatio do for him.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:17 pm#2 Haliburton is being used because the CLINTON administration awarded them the contracts without bidding, and all that has happened is that the selection was continued as no bid was required. Don’t like Haliburton, blame Clinton.
As for the rest, Quite frankly the federal government needs to worry about protection of the U.S. and leave the rest to STATE governments. Let each state do what is best for their state.. You know, that dirty term, “States Rights”.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:18 pmWow, this group is full of real thinkers, NOT!
ROTFL
I don’t think there was one intelligent post on this whole thread. Except mine of course.
ROTFL, ROTFL
December 14th, 2006 at 1:22 pmOur government is as small as it can possibly get, it’s down to one person – The Decider.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:23 pmIs there anyone besides Tom Delay who is interested in seeing Tom Delay’s career resucitation?
This whole Tom Delay media onslaught this week strikes me as really, really odd. Way too premature for anyone to take it seriously, and completely devoid of anything resembling a message (other than “I want to be relevant again”).
Come on, Tom, you just resigned – what? a few months ago? Give us some time to miss you, at least.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:24 pmThe more laws there are, the harder it is to keep from breaking them.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:25 pmDouglas G. sez:
Ah yes, of course. It’s Clinton’s fault.
Blaming the present circumstances on Clinton makes about as much sense as blaming Nazism on Kaiser Wilhelm II.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:27 pmGive it a rest, Douglas G, Clinton hasn’t been president for six f*cking years.
Even Happy Dude thinks you’re stupid.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:28 pmWhat’s this jailbird doing talking about anything?? He’s a liar and a crook and needs to be behind bars. The sycophantic media whores have no dignity in presenting anything this fool has to say.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:32 pmDouglas G……the latest sycophantic GOP whore troll?
December 14th, 2006 at 1:32 pmI hope they put us in the same cell. I’ve always secretly refeered to Tommy Boy as my personal power tool. Can’t wait to get hammered! Even better now that he looks younger.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:37 pmTom DeLay is irrelevant. Sure he is despicable. Sure he is a crook and a liar. But he resigned in disgrace and is no longer a part of our government. The attention and notoriety that he is receiving from the press and posts such as these is undeserved and counter-productive. Leave him to Texas, they seem to deserve each other.
Today another large number of Iraqis were kidnapped and, as has happened in the previous cases, will mostly be executed and their bodies strewn about the country side. More of our soldiers have died. The lunatic fringe of the republican party are calling for more soldiers (war fodder) to be sent to Iraq, even though the majority of Americans want the troops to come home now. One of Iraq’s Vice Presidents reportedly survived an assassination attempt. And finally, Bush is playing a stall game on a matter that is causing death on a daily basis.
I’m surprised that instead of addressing the true issue of the day we are talking about a needle-dick bug f*cker and laughing at “Happy Guy” whose vibrating butt-plug has obviously gone into overload causing him to Roll On The Floor Laughing (ROTFL) in ecstasy.
Seems to me that we have skewed priorities.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:40 pmTom, how can we miss you if you don’t go away? Don’t you have some friends in Saipan — you know, the sweatshops you protected so arduously and paid for you and family to fly out there while you were not passing legislation — that could put you up for a while to dry out?
December 14th, 2006 at 1:41 pmI agree with Tom Delay on something: I can name a bunch of bills that have passed and been signed into law over the past 6 years that should be repealed.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:41 pmI’m surprised that instead of addressing the true issue of the day we are talking about a needle-dick bug f*cker and laughing at “Happy Guy†whose vibrating butt-plug has obviously gone into overload causing him to Roll On The Floor Laughing (ROTFL) in ecstasy.
Holy shit, that’s a funny visual…
Seems to me that we have skewed priorities.
Comment by Tuber
Huh? Sorry…
December 14th, 2006 at 1:46 pmConservatives don’t go to Washington to pass laws. They go to make connections in order to flim-flam the American public and make as much money as they possibly can regardless of the consequences to anyone other than themselves. Killing roaches and killing the truth are equivalent skills, both designed to make your own living comfortable.
December 14th, 2006 at 1:47 pm#31…
December 14th, 2006 at 1:52 pmLooks like he’s had some dental work, too….. yummy yummy, gummy gummy….
I support “No Child Left Behind”. Tommy Boy said that if we got behind the President….hee hee, we could pretty much create the history we wanted. And LOOK! We got it right. Didn’t we?
December 14th, 2006 at 1:57 pmDelay is a fool, and delusional to boot. But what he’s saying in that quote makes basic sense. The central real conservative idea is smaller government, less regulation. Passing new laws generally expands government. Repealing laws generally shrinks governments reach. So there’s nothing really surprising or even stupid about what he’s saying here.
There are of course pleny of othe reasons to make fun of Delay.
December 14th, 2006 at 2:04 pmWhy is this criminal all over the place? I know the media is lazy and bereft of sense, but there must be a few unindicted Republicans left on the wacko fringe they could interview.
December 14th, 2006 at 2:06 pmConservatives do’nt go to Washington to pass laws. They go there to rob the treasury!
December 14th, 2006 at 2:11 pmLet’s just ignore this guy. Tom Delay is irrelevant to the American political process. He is desparate for attention.
December 14th, 2006 at 2:17 pm“Conservatives don’t go to pass laws.”
Well, except for laws giving Congresspersons pay raises.
December 14th, 2006 at 2:44 pmHow about changing the words around. Pass laws so conservatives don’t go to Washington
December 14th, 2006 at 3:03 pmright on! They go to washington to fatten their wallets with corporate “donations”.
December 14th, 2006 at 3:17 pmrepublicans go to congress to steal rob and kill.
…oh and then, once disgraced, create blogs
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December 14th, 2006 at 3:25 pmShouldn’t “hot tub tom” be amassing a legal team? He’s right about one thing, republicans don’t go to washington to pass laws. What he should have said is that republicans go to washington to steal.
December 14th, 2006 at 3:35 pmDa Nile is not just a river in Egypt. Mr. Delay has no clue.
December 14th, 2006 at 4:02 pmrepublicans believe in less government which is why they did nothing before, during, and after Katrina.
December 14th, 2006 at 4:23 pmHell no they don’t! – They go to DC to curry favor with lobbyists by lying and ass-kissing, to ensure they get cushy do-nothing jobs when their terms expire, right Tommy?
In those few words DeLay encapsulated everything that is wrong with business and government today: Overpaid dickheads sharing a cirlce-jerk of ill-gotten gains and creating nothing, improving nothing, and leaving a big goddamned mess for everyone who’s quaint enough to suffer from a conscnience to clean up after them.
December 14th, 2006 at 4:31 pm///over 90,000 hits, sports fans///
Comment by e coli no e coli
Still hanging around the little people, Sharp-Eyed Blogger?
December 14th, 2006 at 4:42 pmComment by Kevin — December 14, 2006 @ 1:03 pm
No. This comment is clearly trying to dupe the public, and it worked with you.
This “conservative” Congress passed laws creating the largest government in the history of the United States, and the most intrusive one at that.
This Congress authorized warrantless wiretapping, snooping into banking records, even your library card.
This Congress came back from recess to pass a Federal Law affecting only one citizen, intruding itself between that citizen and her choice to not be kept on lifesupport indefinitely.
This Congress removed the United States from the Geneva Convention and authorized torture.
This Congress voted to enrich its members and their cronies at the public expense.
This Congress voted to give the President dictatorial powers.
Would that they had passed fewer laws.
December 14th, 2006 at 5:36 pmDeLay is about as genuine as a 3-dollar bill. Why are we even bothering to listen what this crook has to say?
December 14th, 2006 at 6:36 pmYep! Thank you for reposting that BnF. The troll’s have a real short memory and very little on the comprehension skill’s..Guess they think all those dreadful bill’s are O.K. and they also think they will be in power for ever….
Caption contest….Ummmm ..May I be excused, I realy have to go….Blessings all
December 14th, 2006 at 6:37 pmThat ‘do nothing Congress’ did plenty….greed, corruption, graft. Tom should be the poster boy.
December 14th, 2006 at 6:55 pmP.S. Blame the media, if they didn’t keep interviewing him, he’d fade away.
Folks he is right.They(conservatives)go to Wsahinton to scam,steal or ram it up the backsides of the poor folks.
December 14th, 2006 at 7:07 pmMore tax breaks for economic royals in the country.At least he is being honest.
Delay has made a great argument for why not to vote for republicans.
As far as Haliburton is concerned, Cheney was its CEO, Cheney still gets paid, Cheney has stock options, but if you’ve got a problem with Haliburton’s no-bid contracts, blame Clinton. So says the Bush cultist. Not that’s funny.
December 14th, 2006 at 7:40 pmBitch is starting to look real old. Time to bring out that mug shot again.
December 14th, 2006 at 7:50 pmthe more this idiot opens his mouth the more the american people will shake thier heads and feel very happy they voted these guys out in November and wonder what came over them when they actually thought these guys were good and us dems were just bitching.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:47 pm#7 You dumbass, Kevin. Even if your pathetic rationalization for the Republicans’ inaction was true…they would pass laws limiting government. Not voting for a hugely bloated, corrupt government!!! Der.
December 14th, 2006 at 11:04 pm#22 Yes, that is EXACTLY why Halliburton is being used. Because Bush loves to follow in Clinton’s footsteps. Can you hand me the whippets now?
December 14th, 2006 at 11:06 pm#41 Mike, see post #62, that applies to you, too.
December 14th, 2006 at 11:08 pmWHERE do the Repugs get these people????
We have had Tommy ‘Bug-sprayer’ Delay, Conrad Burns, Teddy Stevens, Georgie Allen, Rick the Prick Santorum, Sen. In-a-huff, and of course, Darth Cheney, and the Clown Prince of it all, Dubya.
If that isn’t a partial Who’s Who of Wackjobs and Scumbags, I don’t know what is.
Can’t you Righties find ANYONE with an IQ higher than the number of actual answers Tony SNow-job has provided in his role as the Jester of Bullshit??
December 15th, 2006 at 10:35 amNo shit sherlock… they go to line their and their business partner’s pockets with taxpayer money. Greedy bastards.
December 15th, 2006 at 11:30 amBills, by definition, can’t be repealed. Thank God the moron Delay is headed to jail instead of back to Congress.
December 15th, 2006 at 12:22 pmYou shouldn’t govern if you don’t believe in governing.
December 15th, 2006 at 1:09 pmI am just glad we voted to rid ourselves of those we could.
2008: Get it straight with the rest of the eligible dismissees: DLC, DCCC and any incumbent republicans.
I registered Democratic just to eliminate and DLC or DCCC candidate in the primary.
Alert Rahm that his corporate shills are targeted for elimination as long as the will of the American voter is last on his and chuckie’s agendas.
I will be examining the records of the Dems and working with my buddy to keep that info available on the web.
2007 will NOT .be biz az usual’.
December 15th, 2006 at 1:15 pmSorry people dont like the truth about haliburton, but hey.. You can whine and complain all you want, but the SOURCE of haliburton’s government contracts come way beofre Bush. Just because he hasnt CHANGED what clinton did, you complain, and if he DID change it and setup contract bid, you all would complain…
Dial 1-800-cry-baby, ext WAA
December 15th, 2006 at 4:32 pmHey all Ya’ll, go to Tom the numbnuts Delay’s new blog and put all your
December 15th, 2006 at 8:44 pmcomments there for him to read.
Tell this asshole, he’s an asshole!
You can comment here, but go further and tell this puke what your saying here, right there on his own blog.
This could be the new intor of JackAss III, naw, never mind, he’s not worthy ……. :-)
Hey #69,
December 15th, 2006 at 8:47 pmDo YOU work for Haliburton ??