DELAY Hopped "De Plane! De Plane" on 07-24-98

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When the Capitol police were shot.

When that incident was happening, the news of the moment reported that Tom DELAY had hopped a plane out of town and immediately turned around in Houston when the incident was over. This show of courage is why he has been dubbed, "Tom-DePLANE!-DePLANE!-DELAY". But searches now of countless news reports of that time show no mention of the hopping-the-plane. Only this is left:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm /... "...House members, many rushing out of town, did not have to remain behind. DeLay slipped out the main door of the Capitol less than 15 minutes after the shooting. He looked stricken. Asked if he'd seen anything, he said, "Did I ever. I don't want to talk about it." Aides rushed him into his waiting car. ...."

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Funny how now he talks about the "DEMOCRATIC politics of personal DESTRUCTION," but he doesn't talk about the DELAY politics of personal RESPONSIBILITY.