DeLay says “Absolutely Untrue” That Abramoff Was “A Close Friend”

[RedEarth]

Where would anyone get the crazy idea that DeLay was close friends with Abramoff?

DeLay, Northern Mariana Islands, 1997:

When one of my closest and dearest friends, Jack Abramoff, your most able representative in Washington, D.C., invited me to the islands, I wanted to see firsthand the free-market success and the progress and reform you have made.

DeLay’s campaign to rehabilitate his credibility isn’t off to a good start.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/23/delay-writes-letters/

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I believe Delay. The man is capable of selling his own mother

for a profit, so I would also have to believe that he's incapable of bonding with anyone long enough to call him or her a friend.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. And Abramoff has said

every person should want to aspire to be like Tom DeLay.

[Selatius]

3. People were sold damaged goods when they voted for Delay in TX.

They were either terribly misinformed about him or willfully ignorant of him and simply voted for him because he's Republican. For those who belong in the former group, my condolences. For those in the latter group, you get what you fucking deserve.

[BushOut06]

4. Wait - did anyone just hear a rooster crow three times?

I could have sworn I heard it.

[acmejack]

5. Truthful Tom has always been known as, well, truthful!

And since we really, really like YOU, we're giving you the opportunity to get in on a once in a lifetime deal to triple your investment...

[Maine-ah]

6. K&R

[Botany]

7. Kinda like finding your spouse on the living rom floor having sex w/

somebody else and getting a note that it wasn't what it loked like and that
he/she charged the condoms, wine, candles, flowers, and lobster dinner
on your card because your spouse was thinking about you all the time.