Tom DeLay as Gordon Gekko?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/09/delay.farewell/index.html

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"The common lament over the recent rise in political partisanship is often nothing more than a veiled complaint instead about the recent rise of political conservatism," he said. "You show me a nation without partisanship, and I'll show you a tyranny."

The Texas Republican also told his colleagues to remember that compromise and bipartisanship "are means, not ends, and are properly employed only in the service of higher principles."

"It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle," DeLay said, adding that true statesmen "are not defined by what they compromise, but by what they don't."

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Am I the only one who couldn't stop thinking about Gordon Gekko's speech in "Wall Street" where he says "Greed is good!"? :shrug:

[saltpoint]

1. I think the greed aspect is a perfect match, though I think Gordon Gekko

had it all over Hot-tub Tom in style.

I felt that Gordon knew how to dress, knew what to say, which was the salad fork, and could navigate through the lobby of the Met and not feel threatened by others' references to the day's program.

With DeLay, it's hard to move him from his past: a subliterate man who drives around Texas in a truck poisoning insects.

But the greed of Gordon Gekko is the same greed that governed DeLay.

Congress is far better off with DeLay gone.

[lwcon]

2. I've been imagining Tom at the Pearly Gates

http://vastleft.blogspot.com/2006/06/dont-let-9-trillion-deficit-hit-you-on.html

"Don't let the $9 trillion deficit hit you on the way out"

Tom DeLay's farewell-to-Congress statement gives a glimpse into his warped little mind:

In any place or any time on any issue, what does liberalism ever seek, Mr. Speaker? More -- more government, more taxation, more control over people's lives and decisions and wallets. If conservatives don't stand up to liberalism, no one will. And for a long time around here, almost no one did.

I hope that I'm wrong, and there is a Heaven. It would be pleasing to watch St. Peter bitchslap ol' Tom all the way down to the Other Place, letting him know once and for all that gaming the system toward the wealthy, while shifting a growing tax burden onto the poor and the middle class — and onto future generations of same — isn't the noble legacy he thinks it is. As to his pride about sparing people from government control over their lives, I leave that to the Deities. It's beyond the mortal man to fathom that much irony.

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