The Link
Texas Republicans Renominate
Decomposing Monster.
Film at 11:00.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
For the GOP has again thrown in its lot with the former House Majority Jabberwock.
QUOTE
DeLay Wins Texas GOP Primary
By Sylvia Moreno
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 8, 2006; 7:21 AM
AUSTIN, March 7 -- Rep. Tom DeLay, facing an unusual four-way Republican primary, won the party's nomination Tuesday, calling his victory a rejection by voters of "the politics of personal destruction."
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"Democrat attacks and the politics of personal destruction were heavily used by my opponents in this Republican primary, and they were rejected just like they will be in November," he said.
The 11-term congressman, who voted in his suburban Houston district Tuesday morning and greeted voters at several polls, spent the rest of the day in Washington, voting to renew the USA Patriot Act in the late afternoon and attending an evening fundraiser held by two Capitol Hill lobbyists. The event raised money for DeLay's reelection campaign -- a race that will pit him against Nick Lampson, a former congressman. Lampson had no opponent in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
[With 100 percent of the 216 precincts reporting in congressional District 22, which includes all of Fort Bend County and part of three other Houston-area counties, DeLay had 62 percent of the votes, allowing him to win the GOP nomination outright without a runoff. His closest GOP opponent, Tom Campbell, had 30 percent, followed by Mike Fjetland with 4.7 percent and Pat Baig with 3.3 percent.]
DeLay -- under criminal indictment on a money-laundering charge; rebuked three times by the House ethics committee; and linked to former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to political corruption charges -- faced his toughest primary race in his 22-year congressional career. Although he spent about $2 million, DeLay ran a low-profile primary campaign, focusing on reaching the most dedicated voters through direct-mail pitches and phone calls. He did not run any radio or television ads, reflecting the campaign's belief that they would heighten the profile of the GOP primary and bring out anti-DeLay voters.
But Tuesday night, the tenor of DeLay's campaign changed dramatically.
"I'm honored . . . to defend this district from the funding and activism of America's most radical Democrats," he said. "Liberal activists like Barbra Streisand, George Soros and Nancy Pelosi all have a dog in this fight, and his name is Nick Lampson."
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DeLay "gets headlines for all the wrong reasons," Lampson said, according to the Associated Press. "I'm looking forward to that headline on November 8th: 'No Further DeLay.' "
By Sylvia Moreno
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 8, 2006; 7:21 AM
AUSTIN, March 7 -- Rep. Tom DeLay, facing an unusual four-way Republican primary, won the party's nomination Tuesday, calling his victory a rejection by voters of "the politics of personal destruction."
...
"Democrat attacks and the politics of personal destruction were heavily used by my opponents in this Republican primary, and they were rejected just like they will be in November," he said.
The 11-term congressman, who voted in his suburban Houston district Tuesday morning and greeted voters at several polls, spent the rest of the day in Washington, voting to renew the USA Patriot Act in the late afternoon and attending an evening fundraiser held by two Capitol Hill lobbyists. The event raised money for DeLay's reelection campaign -- a race that will pit him against Nick Lampson, a former congressman. Lampson had no opponent in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
[With 100 percent of the 216 precincts reporting in congressional District 22, which includes all of Fort Bend County and part of three other Houston-area counties, DeLay had 62 percent of the votes, allowing him to win the GOP nomination outright without a runoff. His closest GOP opponent, Tom Campbell, had 30 percent, followed by Mike Fjetland with 4.7 percent and Pat Baig with 3.3 percent.]
DeLay -- under criminal indictment on a money-laundering charge; rebuked three times by the House ethics committee; and linked to former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to political corruption charges -- faced his toughest primary race in his 22-year congressional career. Although he spent about $2 million, DeLay ran a low-profile primary campaign, focusing on reaching the most dedicated voters through direct-mail pitches and phone calls. He did not run any radio or television ads, reflecting the campaign's belief that they would heighten the profile of the GOP primary and bring out anti-DeLay voters.
But Tuesday night, the tenor of DeLay's campaign changed dramatically.
"I'm honored . . . to defend this district from the funding and activism of America's most radical Democrats," he said. "Liberal activists like Barbra Streisand, George Soros and Nancy Pelosi all have a dog in this fight, and his name is Nick Lampson."
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DeLay "gets headlines for all the wrong reasons," Lampson said, according to the Associated Press. "I'm looking forward to that headline on November 8th: 'No Further DeLay.' "
You gotta love the People's Republic of Texas, who could not find the right formulation to reanimate the corpse of Joe McCarthy, so they plucked Tom DeLay back from the Anteroom of Gaol and the Parlor of Hell instead.
A creature so vile, he is required by statue to sleep in a diving bell lest he accidently gag his venom onto passers-by while dreaming his lurid, post-Apocalyptic dreams.
A pigfister of the First Water who is still sure that no one will notice his retching moral stink if he just screams "Dirty Jews!" "Dirty Liberals!" loud enough.
And now we get to run against Tom DeLay and the, "See, they haven't changed one damned bit" Republican Party.
All. Summer. Long.
So three cheers for the People's Republic of Texas and whatever "Little Bus"-ridin' Deity that whomped 'em up out of the primal dust and primate dumb.