WaPo: Wanted: A Handle for the (Delay) Scandal

[rainbow4321]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/03/AR2005050301593.html

Wanted: A Handle for the Scandal

Just a few months ago, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) looked to be in fine shape to weather a new round of allegations that he'd run afoul of House ethics rules.

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This could mean months of investigation. Which means months of leaks and counter-leaks in glorious Washington tradition. It also means the "scandal" needs a name. Yes, Loop Fans can help! Name this scandal!

Names ending in -gate, while not banned, will start with a 10-point penalty. Themes could include golf, casinos, Native Americans, Scotland, travel, termites, and hammers and other household tools.

Send your entry -- and rationale -- via e-mail to [email protected] or mail to In the Loop, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071. Deadline is midnight May 13. Top 10 winners get a still-rare, highly coveted In the Loop T-shirt. Entries on background are welcome, but everyone MUST include telephone numbers to be eligible.

[killbotfactory]

1. hammertime

ok i'm out of ideas

[Guckert]

2. the " Delay in ethics" investigation.

[sportndandy]

3. Delay-gate?

[Virginian]

5. Ten point penalty for use of suffix "-gate".

That leaves DeLay-gate, Hammer-gate, Golf-gate and any other-gates with a beginning handicap.

Ethics DeLayed
DeLayed Scams
DeLayScams Inc.
DeLays Greed


DeLay Bugs Me. He has so many violations and they are all so diverse, it is hard to put a collective generic label on them.

Diversified DeLay Scams, Inc.

Edited for spelling

[indepat]

4. America: waylaid by the delay in defrocking DeLay

[gratuitous]

6. How about . . .

The Corrupt Motherfuckers who lined their own pockets while America's greatness was flushed down the toilet.

Too wordy?

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

7. Highlander games.....Crock-ness Monsters...More, more, moor

[Purrfessor]

8. Tom DeLay + Jack Abramoff = Tom DeJackoff

Example:

The Tom DeJackoff Scandal was given new legs today--eight, to be exact--when new evidence surfaced linking the Congressman to...

[warrens]

9. Hammertime