DMN: DeLay holds head high at home (demonstrators, local commercials)

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/033105dntexdelay.7ed6.html


At home, demonstrators waving placards showed up Tuesday outside the opening of his new district office in Clear Lake. A liberal group announced plans to run TV commercials in the district attacking the congressman and highlighting scandals that have embroiled former DeLay aides and advisers.

Scrambling to counteract the problem, nearly two dozen conservative leaders in Washington have met in recent days to craft a public campaign defending the majority leader. They plan a grass-roots campaign targeted at conservatives in the districts of House Republican lawmakers whose support for Mr. DeLay may be wavering.

Not everyone at the lunch was so sanguine. Steven Friedman, a realtor who has lived in the district since Mr. DeLay's first race for Congress in 1984, said the majority leader's ethics problems and his reputation for hard-charging partisanship have eroded some support. "He would have a hard time if a well-funded moderate were to run against him," Mr. Friedman said.

In a world history class where students are studying the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, Mr. DeLay seized on a student's mention of mathematician Isaac Newton as an example of a leader under fire. "Can you imagine being in a position where you have an idea that you know is true, but everybody around you doesn't believe it? Yeah, I've been there," he said. "He was considered a heretic, and his life was in jeopardy," said Mr. DeLay, apparently confusing Newton with Galileo.

[acmavm]

1. Ignorant douche bag: "apparently confusing Newton with Galileo."

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[rodeodance]

2. It is all about him all the time-whining to HS students!!--whimp!!

.....In a world history class where students are studying the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, Mr. DeLay seized on a student's mention of mathematician Isaac Newton as an example of a leader under fire. "Can you imagine being in a position where you have an idea that you know is true, but everybody around you doesn't believe it? Yeah, I've been there," he said. "He was considered a heretic, and his life was in jeopardy," said Mr. DeLay, apparently confusing Newton with Galileo.

[tanyev]

3. Awww, Tom, this is for you.

When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone

I'm sure you can take a lot of people down with you, Tom. Then you won't be alone.

[dutchdoctor]

4. would that be Sir Isaac Newtoon, the most celebrated man of his time?

This is what his tombstone read:
"Mortals! rejoice at so great an ornament to the human race!"

This is what Alexander Pope wrote:"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be! and all was light."

from one biography "In 1703 he was elected president of the Royal Society and was re-elected each year until his death. He was knighted in 1705 by Queen Anne, the first scientist to be so honoured for his work."

Yeah that sounds like a leader under fire..

[cap]

5. how ironic ...

someone in the forefront of ignoring science in favor of superstition is now using an analogy favoring the use of science over superstition.

Delay has favored irrationality over logic and is now comparing himself to Newton who favored logic over irrationality.

[rainbow4321]

9. Delay: Shiavo judges will "answer for their behavior"

Which is exactly what we will be expecting of him if he really does get indicted...


http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=45102


"Mrs. Schiavo's death is a moral poverty and a legal tragedy. This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change.The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Schindlers and with Terri Schiavo's friends in this time of deep sorrow."

[daleo]

12. And yet, by his own reasoning, he killed his father.

Perhaps misplaced guilt for his decision to remove life support from his father is what moves him in the Shiavo case. Nah, just political opportunism and general slitheriness.

[freedom_to_read]

6. lol that just made my day

"Can you imagine being in a position where you have an idea that you know is true, but everybody around you doesn't believe it? Yeah, I've been there," he said. "He was considered a heretic, and his life was in jeopardy," said Mr. DeLay, apparently confusing Newton with Galileo.

What a maroon.

[realFedUp]

7. I think the Mob does this too....

surround their own.

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. First Delay thinks he's Christ, now Newton (or Galileo)

Talk about being severely brain damaged.

[priller]

14. Has he compared himself to Christ?

That was my next thought, that he'll probably claim he's being "crucified" by his godless, liberal enemies. I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that he's already done it.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

10. What would you expect people...don't you know that science is EVIL.

DeLay is a posterboy from science-hating Xtain fundie shitheads.

JB

[VegasWolf]

11. I'll give the guy a break, he is a republican. You know they despise

intellectuals, they are afraid of anyone with an IQ above
room temperature, they don't have the advantage of an education,
and they rely on Jesus to tell them what to do.

[enki23]

13. see, there were geniuses in history that people hated!

therefore, if you're hated, you're a genius! if people only KNEW that Delay is absolutely right in what he just KNOWS to be true...

you know, the kind of shit spewed every day wherever your local severe schizophrenics reside.

[denverbill]

15. Even if he'd been right about Galileo, he'd still be wrong.

In Galileo's time, Delay would've been sitting right beside the Catholic church, decrying Galileo as a heretic for daring to suggest the earth isn't at the center of the universe. He would've probably pushed for the death penalty for heresy.

And what exactly, is the idea that he 'knows is true'? The idea that the essence of good government is to accept lavish gifts from campaign contributors in exchange for votes?

[rainbow4321]

16. Here's a link to the commercials..

http://www.pcactionfund.org/resign/


And this site lists the recent media coverage:

http://dailydelay.blogspot.com/


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His comment about the commericals

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151993,00.html

Delay: "Bring it on. It's nothing but a bunch of leftist organizations that have a public strategy to demonize me, and usually they overreach. My constituents know what's going on," he said.