HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM DELAY
By Benjamin Phillips
This Saturday marks the birthday of disgraced soon to be ex-congressman Tom Delay. We here at Brain Pan would like to wish him warm regards and many happy returns on his special day, namely, by dragging his sorry ass through the mud one last time.
First there is this:
This mug shot from his arrest last year on conspiracy charges, wherein he grins like he has no worries in the world, is one of my favorites. He looks happy doesn't he? If jail makes him so happy, he should be positively giddy before too long.
Then there is this, cribbed from wikipedia, which constitutes behavior not illegal, but certainly very, very evil:
According to ABC's 20/20 television program, Jack Abramoff lobbied DeLay to stop legislation banning sex shops and sweatshops that force employees to have abortions in the Northern Mariana Islands when Abramoff accompanied DeLay on a 1997 trip to the commonwealth. While on the trip, DeLay promised not to put the bill on the legislative calendar.
In 2000, Frank Murkowski, a conservative Republican senator from Alaska, compelled the U.S. Senate to unanimously pass the Murkowski worker reform bill to extend the protection of U.S. labor and minimum-wage laws to the workers in the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas. DeLay, then the House Republican Whip, stopped the House from even considering Murkowski's bill.
DeLay later blocked a fact-finding mission planned by Rep. Peter Hoekstra by threatening Hoekstra with the loss of his subcommittee chairmanship.
Wow.
If you want a good list detailing all the awful things he's done, go here: THE CRIMES OF TOM DELAY
Tom stepped down this week, and will resign his seat sometime soon, but we here at Brain Pan will remember him for the horrible, corrupt, and generally vile human being he is, and will, in some small way, miss him.
Not really.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM DELAY!