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22 March 2007

Delay's divorce from reality. →[More:] Even after everything, I'm still a bit flabergasted this man was so powerful for so long. Why do the fantasycons have to deny even trivial stuff?

post by: danostuporstar at: 08:39 | 11 comments

Wow, I can't play the video, but just the transcript was enough. What a tool!

posted by omiewise 22 March | 08:45

He was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition yesterday, and had to ask myself the same question. It seems to me to be a failing within the Republican party that fanatically antagonistic politicians like Delay make it past House Whip.

posted by muddgirl 22 March | 08:46

It's amazing to me that so many politicians don't understand the concepts of recordings and transcripts. Rumsfeld repeatedly does the same thing.

posted by brainwidth 22 March | 08:48

On reading further: That was a line from Delay's book! He wrote it--or had it ghost-written for him--and still denied it. Amazing.

posted by brainwidth 22 March | 08:49

It was the "I didn't write 'drunk', that would be a cliche"-bit most most bizarred me out. Of all things, he's worried people might think he wrote a cliche!?

posted by danostuporstar 22 March | 08:53

I bet Delay had the whole thing ghostwritten by a seventeen year-old girl in Oregon.

posted by Hugh Janus 22 March | 09:01

Delay's divorce from reality.

They divorced, and reality got to keep the House.

posted by BoringPostcards 22 March | 09:15

It's such a weird thing to lie about. Is there really that much difference between saying someone's drunk with ambition and saying they're blinded by ambition?

posted by kirkaracha 22 March | 09:27

I bet Delay had the whole thing ghostwritten by a seventeen year-old girl in Oregon.

Just the steamy bits.

posted by drezdn 22 March | 09:44

What a dick.

posted by Hellbient 22 March | 10:03

Probably some projecting, or anti-projecting, on his part. When he was in the Texas House, Delay had a reputation for being a really dumb party boy. He wasn't drunk with ambition back then so much as he was just drunk.

Y'all should read The Hammer. My friend wrote it!

posted by mudpuppie 22 March | 11:29

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