Straight Shootin'

The donks hate Tom DeLay. It's always fun to read the leftists' editorials and letters to the editor in the Houston Chronicle. Without exception, the donks cries and accusations against him just get wilder and whackier.

Tom shoots back, and hits the bullseye. He's not in my Congressional district, but if he ever runs for a statewide or national office, I'm damn sure voting for him.

Here's a run-through of the column on his response to Dean and Clark's recent statements. I posted the whole article, as the Chronicle kicks these to subcriber-only archives after the current edition-day.

WASHINGTON -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, weighed in on the Democratic presidential race Sunday, accusing Howard Dean of lying about the economy and saying retired Gen. Wesley Clark was removed from command for "character reasons."

Refreshingly direct. And true!

DeLay and other Republican leaders lashed out against Clark and Dean last week after the Democratic contenders criticized the way President Bush has handled the war in Iraq and the economy at home.

And not a moment too soon, I say. There's no good reason to let the screaming bleats of the left go unanswered by facts and plain common sense. And a cluebat.

Dean, a former Vermont governor who is considered the front-runner in a field of nine Democrats vying for their party's nomination, said Americans are not safer as a result of the Dec. 14 capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Clark said that rather than going after Saddam, Bush should have concentrated on tracking down Osama bin Laden, who has claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

I love Rep. DeLay's response....

DeLay said Sunday those comments were "outrageous" and "cuckoo."

[empasis mine]

Clearly, he was showing great restraint. My description of their comments involves much cursing and invective.

"It's easier to find Osama bin Laden than it is to find Wesley Clark's foreign policy," he said during a nationally televised interview on NBC's Meet the Press. He added that Clark, a former NATO commander, was "removed from that post because of character reasons."

Clark couldn't find his foreign policy with both of Clinton's hands up his ass. Oh, wait. Slick weighs in thusly.

Clark's former commander-in-chief, President Clinton, has denied that.

That former fuckweasel in cheif will deny anything having to do with character, as to admit that character matters, he'd also have to admit his lack thereof.

DeLay said the current administration and the U.S. military have done "a magnificent job in Iraq" while dealing with terrorist threats around the world and protecting Americans here.

With no Deanisian weasel words of equivication, either.

"I hope Howard Dean is nominated for the Democratic nomination. ... I think the Democrat platform could be titled, `Dean Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' " DeLay said. "We would love to run against Howard Dean. He is so far out there on the fringe."

Wish he'd train the RINO segment of the Republican Party to grow individual pairs and to speak so clearly.

Asked about Dean's recent criticism of Bush and the Republicans for a record $500 billion deficit, DeLay said, "Howard Dean has a real hard time with the truth. He says one thing one day and says something else the other day. This isn't the largest deficit in history ... and the Republican House passed the first balanced budget in well over 40 years in the `90s. We have credibility; they don't."

A hundred years ago, those would be fighting words. Don't have to worry about that from the donks though. They've all embraced pacifism the french. And the truth is a stranger to 'em.

DeLay said it is "big-spending Democrats who want to take everybody's money and dampen this economy that is starting to show signs of booming."

Hell, ESPN needs to give DeLay a "color commentary" gig during the donk convention. That'd be priceless!

That assessment is in direct conflict with predictions of the Congressional Budget Office, however. On Saturday, that office warned that the country is facing a "major economic crisis."

Well, if one defines an "economic crisis" as the strongest economic growth in over twenty years. Can you say "liberal CBO staffers"? I knew you could. Proof of which follows.

"Dramatic tax increases or dramatic spending cuts across the board" will be needed to turn it around, the budget office said.

Those donk congroaches can't even balance a simple checkbook. I'm damn sure not in favor of letting 'em get near the national budget if they're that blind to reality.

But DeLay said the office has "never been right in any of their predictions," and he did not rule out future tax cuts.

Folks, if we had a few more straight-shooters like Tom DeLay in the House and Senate, we could get away from the popular "soundbite" form of politics and get down to some essential truths. Might not be as polite, but damned if Tom's not truly effective at what he does.

House Majority Whip, who knows how to crack it and smack some donk ass. Gotta love it.

Comments

[Ms Anna]

Just wish he could crack that whip over the Senate side, too. I see raging red whenever I think about how little the Senate gets done with only 100 members, while 435 House Representatives burn through the crap of politics and get laws and budgets passed.

[Gina]

Well, that was refreshing! We do need more DeLays in office, armed with huge Cluebats, just for the LLL.

What a treat that would be!

[Daniel Day]

I like DeLay's speaking style, and I wish Washington DC was full of people with his attitude and politics. But:
When he refers to the "balanced" budget of a few years ago, I want to hurl. They were counting Social Security payments as income. It seemed like every politician in Washington, including Newt, called that budget "balanced" (perhaps Ron Paul, another Texan, had the gumption to call it what it was), and I'm really, really sick of hearing it. Contrary to what Delay unfortunately said in the latter part, the Republicans _lack_ credibility precisely because of this double-talk. Don't even get me started on Democrats.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Jim.