The Resurrection of Tom Delay
By Jon Perr Tuesday Sep 22, 2009 7:00amAs he awaits trial on money laundering charges, disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom Delay on Monday launched the latest phase of his extremist makeover on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." Two years after publishing his book and 18 months after starting the Coalition for a Conservative Majority, Delay turned to the Cha Cha to complete his resurrection. Which is altogether fitting for the man who repeatedly compared himself to Jesus Christ.
Delay's Christ complex first manifested itself in 2001 as he explained to the Washington Post the opposition to his none-too-subtle campaign to bring his fundamentalism to the United States Congress. "People hate the messenger," Delay announced, adding, "That's why they killed Christ." On the day of his booking five years later, Delay told Time he prayed:
"Let people see Christ through me."
As it turns out, the similarities between Jesus and Tom Delay are striking:
While Tom Delay was on Dancing with the Stars, for Vision America founder Pastor Rick Scarborough, Delay like Jesus walks on water. Welcoming the fallen House Majority Leader to his 2007 "War on Christians" conference, Scarborough declared:
"I believe the most damaging thing that Tom DeLay has done in his life is take his faith seriously into public office, which made him a target for all those who despise the cause of Christ."
For his part, Delay did not disappoint. Delay, who once said, "I don't believe there is a separation of church and state" and proclaimed his mission was to bring "a biblical worldview to government," wowed the friendly crowd at the "War on Christians" event:
"Sides are being chosen, and the future of man hangs in the balance! The enemies of virtue may be on the march, but they have not won, and if we put our trust in Christ, they never will."
As Delay left the stage that day, Pastor Scarborough said "God always does his best work after a crucifixion" and urged the Hammer, "Keep your eyes on Jesus."
He would do better to keep his eyes on the Dancing with the Stars judges – and prosecutor Ronnie Earle.
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Like Dubya, this little drunk felon fails at everything he tries.
Like Dubya, he fails to recognize failure.
Both are blinded by their egos.
Both are bathing in their own ego's.
1) If Jesus had worn pointy shoes like Tom he could have killed cockroaches by kicking them in the corner.
2) Ronnie Earle has retired.
After the second butt shot I ceased looking at the clip. WHY!?
And I'm a butt woman.
and not his Aggie T-shirt that you found disconcerting.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk205/Qrky...
"Let people see Christ through me."
More accurately -
"Let people see Christ
throughTHREW me." (see: money changers in the temple):)
This is the only interpretation I can see for his statement.
that no known bleeching agents can remove these images from your mind.
Whos house would Jesus debug ? Did Jesus redistrict Jerusalem to tilt an election ? Did Jesus have a hot tub ? GO AWAY Tack Hammer !!
... for the Ascension.
"Dancing With Disgraced Republican Douche Bags".
There, FIFY.
Sorry, but he reminds me of Mr. Furley from "Three's Company." He was light on his feet during his routines, much in the same way he tipped around those personal issues that spurred the end of his political career.
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com
Throw Delay in prison with the many corrupt and criminal Reslugs before him. He is such a fairy on his feet that he will be well excepted by Bubba in prison.
I'm betting Jesus could cha cha better than Delay. If I were Delay, after seeing what I looked like on that show, I would hope someone would put me on suicide watch. I mean how drunk do you have to get to make that big of an ass of yourself.
White men can't jump and some can't even dance.
has linked this yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLbruW6LTfw
Can we get that bus to cruise by the "Dancing With The Stars" set the next time Bug Man is on? Please!?
ysbaddaden usually takes care of this department, but thanks for posting the link and laugh.
http://www.kewego.es/video/iLyROoaftHzg.html
I darn near wet myself watching that one.
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I hope Delay's appearance on this show is just his warm-up for his sessions in PMITA prison.
I'm glad to say that I'm one of the few who's never watched the show. And BTW, I thought it was called Dancing With the Stars for a reason. It seems to me that their star pool has significantly dried up.
Dancing With Any Schmuck We Can Grab Off The Street
Pat Buchanan claims that he was asked to be on Dancing with the Stars either last year or this year. Talk about deperate for "stars"
when they allowed Tucker Carlson to dancce on that show.
He was truly creepy and creeped out his dance partner as well.
OK, maybe some things need to be censored. Never thought I'd...
Could you please steer clear of any phonemes that produce the syllables "...erection of Tom Delay"
thank you.
was Jack Abramoff.
This is so effed up. We have some really serious shit going on in this country and here is a corporate media outfit doing a puff piece on a soon to be convicted criminal who used to lead our congress.
Oh I know he hasn't been convicted, but he has confessed to wrongdoing and still walks around with a cocky grin on his face like he'll get away with it all.
Tom's indictment will probably never go to trial. Sorry.
Delay has the same problem dancing as my ex-husband did, he can't!
Oh and please note that I said "ex-husband".
My friend purchased that box set of MST 3000 season episodes through Amazon.com.
Oh, thank you so much. I was afraid you had forgotten about it. I'll let Santa know that I would like to find that under my tree in a few months. My Santa always welcomes little hints and now I have one for him. This is gonna be better than getting a pony. :)
I gotta get that too!
Here's the site at Amazon, Liberalinmoderation
I can barely afford anything besides rent right now.
I noticed they have used ones at a much lower price.
Only have enough for the bare necessities...barely
I just found it on Amazon and sent an email to my Santa giving him the info and web address. If things work out the way I plan, I'll be thinking of you Christmas morning. :)
L&L. I am sure dennis is scratching his head over your being a fan of that show.
...he'd be good at Jitterbugging.
More like tap-dancing around every subject....
What he should be dancing to is Jailhouse Rock.
Tom DeLay always seemed a little gay!
Comparing Delay to gays is really offensive to LGBT people. I'd more place him in with the Unrepentant Assholes Alliance.
BTW, I thought it was impressive that one of the most talented marching bands that appeared in Obama's inaugural parade was the LGBT!
Please don't push this one off on us!
Mr. Delay is not gay. He is an Aggie. He is shown in an Aggie T-shirt.
Tom attended Texas A&M before women were allowed to do so.
This is a recent clip, but the depiction of the culture dates from Tom's time at his alma mater. By the way, the uniform of the "Yell Leader" is remarkably similar to that worn in another Texas institution
that is predominately male, and where residents present themselves in a similar fashion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwoMHsTVQXw
That "yell leader" must have a second job at a gas station checking cars' oil level. Why else would he have a rag hanging from his rear pocket?
... mean something.
1. What type of sex you are looking for (color of rag - light blue, dark blue, pink, red, black and more)
2. Whether you are dominant or submissive (left or right respectively)
3. codes
it is not to clean off desks.
http://www.umc.org/atf/cf/%7BDB6A45E4-C446-42...
Ho gay man would be caught dead in those clothes!!
I mean my god. He looked like a wanna be hippie. Really bad boho.
Hopefully Delay's next dancing gig will be at a supermax doing the horizontal rumba with Leroy.
isn't doing anything six-legged, is he?
who's the right-wing neocon big shot over at DWTS who's idea it was to broadcast this dirtbag?
the producers saw.
http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2009/09/10/b...
the little run-down of delay's political career seemed to be a tad light on the details. ya know, they kind of glossed over the fact that he was the first house leader to be indicted in over 100 years. not to mention the little, endearing details. like his support for sweatshops in the northern mariana islands...
Delay's boobs are bigger than his partner's?
Yeah, Jesus was really into slavery and forced abortions on the Mariana Islands. "My children, make thee a libertarian paradise".
Tom Delay exploring his feminine side while dancing with a bubblehead to "Wild Thing" on national TV. That's it. I'm out.
tom delay is a very dirty dude. he had his nose up jack abramoff's ass. you can still see the brown on his nose. he had a lot to do with the "astro turfing" of evangelicals/anti-taxation types. i can't stand this dude. he's obviously appealing to demographic(s) i'm only slightly famaliar with since i don't watch nonsense like dancing with the has beens.
he was a bug exterminator. See video here. He is truly a LOSER.
Bobby Kennedy
That this washed up hack was wearing a brown shirt. How perfectly appropriate.
was cruel and unusual punishment. He looks like a dancing Ewok.
If he made it to the finals, he'd have to work his tail off and learn every last dance move they have.
But, you know, I think I *did* see Christ through him while he was shaking his geriatric, saggy booty.
Hey, if Delay says he's Jesus and he didn't come flying out of the sky in a chariot. And he did a bunch of bad things to people saying he was Jesus. And he's now in jail....Well, let's just "crucify" him like Caiaphas had Jesus crucified and.....watch. If he is Jesus, we'll be in a heap of shit. If he's not Jesus, then the "publican" deserved it for impersonating the Son of God for just wealth and profit and supporting the thoughts and behaviour of Ronald666WilsonReagan.... In the bible,"666" is known as the "beast". I'll bet Delay is part of the "beast"....Wanna bet?
JB
....in the shower at the Big House.
They'll show you, the Wild Thang, Cha-Cha Delay.
I knew I've been having a hard time buying nails lately.
What about mail fraud and identity theft? I lived outside of TX from 2002-2009. In 2008 I discovered that someone had made a contribution to a national association in Washington DC in my name in the amount of $500. This particuliar association donates about 80% of their funds to Republicans. I believe it was somebody in TX because they used one of my defunct PO Boxes as the address. The same address I used as a member of a state level association. It makes me wonder how many other fictious donations were made coming out of TX. I haven't filed a report with any authorities, yet. I wonder what the statute of limitaions is on mail fraud?
When you're dancing, you sweat. It's heavy exercise. You carry a rag in your pocket to wipe the dripping sweat out of your eyes.
Delay may not be our sort of politician, but he's far from the worst dancer this season. That prize goes to Michael Irvin, who is truly flatfooted and completely without grace. Delay is teachable. He could become a good dancer. Doesn't seem like that now, but it's possible. If he's determined to learn, and I think he is, he could learn. Here goes something ELSE I never thought I'd do: defend Tom Delay.
And lay off Dancing with the Stars. We all know what big, strong men you are that you can't enjoy anything even remotely associated with something as sissy as dancing. I mean, to do so might admit that you were sensitive enough to notice that your wife or girlfriend is enthralled and secretly wishes you knew how to float across the floor in time to the music. If you really must run down dancing and the contestants, just watch the scantily clad professionals and ruminate about how difficult dancing really is. Or if you can't do that, watch the expression on Cheryl's face when she stands 2 feet from Delay (notice how all the other partners stand close together). Revulsion. I suspect Cheryl is a democrat.
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