Tom DeLay on Fox and Friends
Written by YellowJacket on November 8th, 2006I just flipped to Fox and Friends, and though I caught DeLay midsentence I heard him say, “when you forget your principles, you lose; when you play not to lose, you lose.” What a joke. This is DeLay of the K Street Project, which empowered lobbyists in influencing Republican leadership. This is DeLay of the Medicare Part D vote, in which he kept the vote open into the wee hours of the morning arm-twisting the final votes to pass legislation that would please LBJ with his Great Society programs. DeLay is a representative of exactly where the GOP went wrong in the House, and for him to project his faults on others is ridiculous on its face. DeLay may be trying to portray himself as the last soldier of the Contract With America, but we all know that he is part of the power-comfortable disease that afflicted the House GOP. Good riddance to him and here’s hoping that Pence and Shadegg can assume the Republican leadership posts in the new House minority.
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Langley, I could not agree more.
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Medicare was among Tom DeLay’s priorities.
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What’s your point?
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He wasn’t betraying his principles. He just didn’t agree with yours. Conservatives haven’t made compelling arguments against that bill.
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Ha. Ha. Ha. That’s all I can say to your comment.
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Joe, now is probably not the time to drink the Bush/Delay kool-aid.
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“Conservatives haven’t made compelling arguments against that bill.”
So the Federal Government taking $ from me and giving it to people who are retired to buy medicine for themselves is a conservative principle?
That is wealth re-distribution 101 and is called socialism. The government has no mandate to to do this under the Constitution have you even read that document?
The Democrats believe in doing things like this and the Republicans used to be against it as well. This is why they lost, they went out and concocted idiotic bills like this which caused their base to hate them.