Make the Pest Go Away -- Tom DeLay's Day Is Done

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Christine Bowman

Does anybody know anything about Tom DeLay's overactive publicist? Suddenly, the ex-Congressman from Texas seems to be everywhere ... at CPAC, on "Hardball," at Talking Points Memo. Most disturbing are Chris Matthews' repeated assertions that DeLay will always be welcome on his show, "Hardball."

Rush Limbaugh's oversaturation of the airwaves was hard enough to take. Now we have a disgraced and indicted, has-been sleazeball coming back to haunt the new Obama administration as a supposed GOP mouthpiece. Why would anybody care what he thinks? Just who has deemed Tom DeLay to have been redeemed?

He was indicted for conspiracy and money laundering. He was justifiably run out of D.C. with his tail between his legs a few years back.

Does he deserve to be revived?

Like Rush Limbaugh, Tom DeLay may provide spice to a slow news day, but that is not sufficient reason for any serious journalist to invite him to air his views. On MSNBC's "First Read" web page, a writer made the same point:

NBC/WSJ co-pollster Peter Hart (D) says Republicans “have been tone deaf to the results of the 2008 election… They never heard the message. They continue to preach the old-time religion.”
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And yet MSNBC enables these lying thieves...

Why is "currently under indictment" Tom DeLay being allowed on your airwaves to keep lying about the real reason our economy is collapsing?  Will someone please tell Chris Matthews that his own credibility diminishes every time he gives his man-crush the airtime?

Only Republicans could claim that a debt bubble was the foundation of a healthy economy.  Now, the bubble has popped, and the GOP is scrambling to lay the blame somewhere else.  Good luck with that.  

Suburban Mom paying attention, IL (Sent Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:47 AM)

Tom DeLay is an enemy of the people if ever there was one. Prior to entering politics he was expelled from his college and then ran a pest exterminating firm that was said to have cheated its employees and cheated on taxes. Once in office, DeLay messed with redistricting in Texas, victimized Terri Schiavo and her family, was at the center of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, and eventually was forced by his own party to resign his leadership position due to his ethics problems. His votes were anti-arts, anti-women, anti-environment. As the House Majority Leader from 2002-2005 and a Gingrich lieutenant before that, DeLay engineered much of the wreckage that the Obama Administration and current congress must now struggle to somehow fix.

Watching him Wednesday, I started thinking, maybe it takes vermin to know vermin. The Republicans are running a low-road campaign, but this was real filth coming from DeLay. They used to call DeLay; "the exterminator", because that was the business he was in before he became a politician.

... DeLay, of course, was one of the most corrupt, hypocritical and divisive pillars of the 1990s GOP revolution, and he's hugely to blame for his party's sad fortunes today. But he still gets around the cable shows, and to see him on "Hardball," just a half hour before I was on, spewing hate about Obama, was kind of unsettling.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh...

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS