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Old 05-28-2006, 06:23 PM   #1
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Comedy writers can't dream up stuff better than this!

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/24/delay-colbert/

What part of satire don't those twits understand???
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Old 05-28-2006, 06:30 PM   #2
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No dumber then democrats and any other politician.

At the end of the day, people on principle are stupid and gullible.
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Old 05-28-2006, 06:33 PM   #3
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I think its funny that DeLay still has the video of the Colbert interview on his website. Hasn't anyone told him that the show is joke.
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Is Delay actually associated with the Tom DeLay Legal Expense Trust, which runs the site?
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Wow. Tom Delay = Republicans? News to me. I will have to change parties now with that revelation.
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Old 05-28-2006, 07:00 PM   #6
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Wow. Tom Delay = Republicans? News to me. I will have to change parties now with that revelation.
I thought you were an Independent.
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I thought you were an Independent.
I am, I don't vote the party line. But I would make no attempt to mask the fact that I have supported more Republican candidates than Democrats in the past. It also goes to the fact that in Kansas, in order to vote in a primary, you have to register as a member of the party whose primary you want to vote in. There was a local judge who was up for re-election last November who was absolutely fantastic in presiding over a case in which members of my family were victims. So I registered Republican so I could support her in the primary.
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Old 05-28-2006, 07:23 PM   #8
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Wow. Tom Delay = Republicans? News to me. I will have to change parties now with that revelation.
Gee Dis, Tom Delay was the Republican poster boy for quite some time. What happened?
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Old 05-28-2006, 07:25 PM   #9
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No dumber then democrats and any other politician.

At the end of the day, people on principle are stupid and gullible.
Very true. But I can't help but poke fun at the stupidity of the man and his defense team when they do something like this. HOZ will be losing his mind when he sees this.

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Gee Dis, Tom Delay was the Republican poster boy for quite some time. What happened?
Huh?

Tom Delay Republican poster boy? Come on. That's news to me. I've thought he was among the slimiest of politicians around for the last few years.

He might be the Republican poster boy for the information that is fed to Liberals and Democrats. That would at least make some sense.
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Old 05-28-2006, 07:27 PM   #11
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Very true. But I can't help but poke fun at the stupidity of the man and his defense team when they do something like this. HOZ will be losing his mind when he sees this.

Shouldn't be unexpected given his emphatic statements when the initial story broke that he was the subject of a witch hunt and would be vindicated in the courts.

Moron.

It wasn't too long after that he was using the phrase 'no comment' when asked questions that might yield self-incriminating answers.
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Old 05-28-2006, 07:34 PM   #12
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Huh?

Tom Delay Republican poster boy?
The leader of the house is not the poster boy for the party?
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The leader of the house is not the poster boy for the party?
How many House leaders have gone on to run for President?

I don't think a leadership position in Congress necessarily equates to 'posterboyhood'. To me, a poster boy is someone who is the face of the party in the public, and with intent. Delay was not that. Maybe we have different definitions.

Nice avatar by the way. Just initiated my 11 year old son with his first viewing today!
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Old 05-28-2006, 07:49 PM   #14
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How many House leaders have gone on to run for President?

I don't think a leadership position in Congress necessarily equates to 'posterboyhood'. To me, a poster boy is someone who is the face of the party in the public, and with intent. Delay was not that. Maybe we have different definitions.

Nice avatar by the way. Just initiated my 11 year old son with his first viewing today!
Who would you say was the Republican posterboy then?

Oh, and did your son fart in your general direction after the viewing? If not, you did not do your job properly and must immediately subject him to another half dozen viewings!
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Old 05-28-2006, 07:58 PM   #15
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No Tom Delay is not officially affiliated with the Tom Delay Legal Defense Trust Fund.

What this basically is, is a bunch of Tom Delay fanboys who are trying to pass around a collection jar to send money to Tom Delay to pay his legal fees.
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Very tough question. For the Dems, its clearly Obama wouldn't you say?

I would offer up Denny Hastert, Don Young and Rick Santorum as possibles.
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Very tough question. For the Dems, its clearly Obama wouldn't you say?

I would offer up Denny Hastert, Don Young and Rick Santorum as possibles.
I would hope for someone like Obama, but no way is he the face of the Democrats. Unfortunately I think the face for the Democrats is Hilliary (a face only a DUMB mother could love). For the GOP I still think Delay is the guy that is face the public associates with the party. They could hope for Santorum to pick up the torch, but I'm not sure he's got the "values" the party is looking to appeal to, if you know what I mean. I think he's too liberal for the base that Bush has appealed to. He's too much like Todd-Whitman (the ex-New Jersey governor) and is more of a centerist IMO.
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I would hope for someone like Obama, but no way is he the face of the Democrats. Unfortunately I think the face for the Democrats is Hilliary (a face only a DUMB mother could love). For the GOP I still think Delay is the guy that is face the public associates with the party. They could hope for Santorum to pick up the torch, but I'm not sure he's got the "values" the party is looking to appeal to, if you know what I mean. I think he's too liberal for the base that Bush has appealed to. He's too much like Todd-Whitman (the ex-New Jersey governor) and is more of a centerist IMO.
I think you're off on Delay, but its not a big deal. Your close is interesting, I really like Christine Todd-Whitman.

I like Denny Hastert a fair bit too. Our local Congressman, Todd Tiahrt, had a 16 year old son who committed suicide out in D.C. last summer. Hastert flew into Wichita for the funeral. I thought that said something about him as a leader and a person.

You may be right about Santorum. I'd like to see the GOP move left a bit and I'd like to see the leadership of the dems move right. There are plenty of centrist democrats out there, but most of the leadership is extremely liberal. Things might be good again when both parties move toward the middle.

I'll add here...

One guy I had high hopes for a few years back was J.C. Watts. I would have loved to see him continue his service in Congress and become the face of the party. Might not have been what he wanted though.

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Old 05-29-2006, 09:09 AM   #19
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You may be right about Santorum. I'd like to see the GOP move left a bit and I'd like to see the leadership of the dems move right. There are plenty of centrist democrats out there, but most of the leadership is extremely liberal. Things might be good again when both parties move toward the middle.
Not to butt in, but why would you want this? The two parties already have little more than wedge issues between them - on most things substantive policy wise, they are basically the same. Move one left and the other right, and you are left with basically a single party state with two near-identical parties basically to alternate whenever a scandal occurs that drives people from one to the other.
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Not to butt in, but why would you want this? The two parties already have little more than wedge issues between them - on most things substantive policy wise, they are basically the same. Move one left and the other right, and you are left with basically a single party state with two near-identical parties basically to alternate whenever a scandal occurs that drives people from one to the other.
Because when you have two parties whose leadership seems to like to polarize then 90% of Americans are left with no good choices.
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