Tom Delay, Former House Majority Leader and Renowned McEwen Web Site Historical Revisionist, to Resign
S.O.B. Alliance member Large Bill nails it on Delay, who strangely decided to have a lengthy interview with Time Magazine on his decision (what, Newsweek was too busy looking for Korans in toilets?):
I’d like to claim that Delay fought tirelessly for conservative causes. However, in the long run he became an advertisement for term limits. I believe he fought harder for conservatism when Republicans were in the minority in the House. In the area of government spending, the Republican controlled House of Representatives has been hardly any better than the previous decades of Democrat control.
I think Delay sealed his fate as a serious leader on Capitol Hill when he infamously claimed that there was nowhere in the mammoth and bloated federal budget where spending could be reduced.
Closer to home, the tragedy in this is that only other known human being in history besides Bob McEwen to go on the record calling what every other human being knows as “The House Bank Scandal” of 1991 and 1992 the “Democrat Bank Scandal” (and what I have decided to call “The House Pickle Relish Scandal,” a name that is now every bit as authoritative as Mr. Delay’s appellation), will no longer be in elected office. For the sake of historical accuracy, and to preserve a small part of Mr. Delay’s legacy, I suggest a name change at Mr. McEwen’s campaign home page to “The Tom Delay-Designated Democrat Bank Scandal.”
Heheheh nice! I’ve been a political junkie and have a degree in PoliSci, but I was not aware of Delay’s reference to the “Democrat Bank Scandal.” At first, I was disappointed the Texas Whip had given up the fight, but more and more it looks like we needed new leadership. Great blog, I’ll be back!
Comment by Chucko — April 4, 2006 @ 12:33 pm
To the best of my recollection, the majority of the bank scandal (and all the other scandals; it was a corrupt time) participants were in fact Democrats. Still, McEwen lost me when he got caught.
DeLay retired when he gave up trying to control spending; he just took awhile to make it official.
Comment by Steven J. Kelso Sr. — April 4, 2006 @ 12:51 pm