Anyone catch the Bugman on Hardball pimping his new book? He's gone round the twist:
MATTHEWS: You say [Dick Army] was "drunk with ambition."
DELAY: Actually that's not what I said. What I said was "blinded by ambition. "Drunk with ambition" is a quote of a cliche.
MATTHEWS: Why would I underline it in the book?
DeLay babbles for a while as Matthews looks up the quote:
MATTHEWS: "He resented me for being the other Texan on the leadership team and he resented me for being in the way of his becoming Speaker of the House. Beware the man drunk with ambition."
DELAY: Uh, read the sentence before that.
MATTHEWS: That's what I just did.
DELAY: It says "blinded by ambition."
MATTHEWS: No, I'll read the sentence again: "He resented me..." It's right here in your book. You gotta read it. (Matthews hands him the book). I'm sorry Tom but it's there. It says "drunk with ambition."
DELAY: That is the cliche...but right up here, I don't have my glasses on, right up here it says "blinded by ambition."
After six years of constantly indulging a bizarre addition to lying, he really doesn't have the capacity to tell the truth any more. Is BushCo. so desperate for people to go out and defend them in public they have to resort to Tom DeLay? Who let him out of his cage?
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I didn’t know Tom DeLay ever visited your place when you lived in California, Jane.
Blech. Oh me eyes.
“I don’t have my glasses on”
righht. who’s your ghostwriting daddy, bugboy?
Hi Jane!
Fitz!
FITZ…WE NEED YA MAN!!
Damn - I missed - I thought I was first. boo.
Delay wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in the a**. And that’s pretty much what it is going to do. I mean, da-uhm, he can’t even quote himself correctly?
God that photo looks like the guys who respond to my Match profile.
Swopa @
1
Busted.
Jane–
Should “bizarre addition to lying” read “bizarre addiction to lying”?
That is HI-larious.
BTW, how many times did Clinton aides testify under oath to Congress? Something like 36 officials testified 41 times? Is that right?
How many were subpoenaed?
Did the techies at home base determine today whether the toobz problem was due to malicious tampering?
[Mod Note; no extraneous tampering. VOTE tampering, maybe.]
out-take of that photo session
http://static.flickr.com/47/12.....5b441b.jpg
One of the funnier bugman likenesses I could find by googling…
hmm… those plants in the background look a little suspicious.
Leave the guy alone. He’s the victim of an out of control, partisan, witch-hunting prosecuter.
And he’s down to his last $7 million.
Seeing DeLay say that again and again sort of reminded me of Jim Bowie at the Alamo.
Okay, it’s my turn to confess ignorance of a fdl nickname. Why “Hot Tub Tom?” Whatever the explanation I’m sure it’ll turn my stomach.
I asked this a couple of threads back, but I’ll ask again: why isn’t DeLay in prison?
I’ll give Matthews credit for diving into books and that his guests have written and challenging them on stuff in it. I remember he did it to Coulter after she implied in one of her books that JFK and FDR were weak presidents- she wouldn’t defend her own words.
neurophius @ 9
Yeah, that would make sense. But, let’s face it–the other way works, too–after all, DeLay has found so many new ways to deceive people….
’cause under the rethugs the TX justice system only imprisons (and, for that matter, executes) minorities, the poor and Dems.
LoudounLib @ 18
ooohhh yuk. Who’s been drinking the water from *that* hot tub?
As for the “drunk/blind with ambition” thing, I think the simplest explanation is that he didn’t bother to read the drafts that the ghostwriters sent him.
You can’t say it any other way Jane. It is simple and panicked desperation. I mean what other reason could there be for letting Bug Man out of his wallow?
Let’s Impeach the Preznit!
Blub @ 21
Because he has not yet gone to trial. As for the reason for that, I can’t help you.
Two thoughts from that photo…
1. Ewwww.
2. Bowm-chicka-bowm-bow. (Hmmmm, how does one spell 70’s porn music??)
he really doesn’t have the capacity to tell the truth any more.
I think it’s called pathological.
Which is a synonym for “Modern Republican”.
Alan @ 19
He does go for books. He knows about Anatomy of Deceit, here is a direct quote from Matthews at the trial: “Marcy’s book.”
dingo_kidney @ 17
that’s no fdl nickname
Hot Tub Tom
I think “Bowm-chicka-bowm-bow” is the correct spelling.
That picture–erg. Anybody have eye-bleach I can borrow?
Why is this man on TV? It’s like the networks using Charlie Manson as a courtroom reporter while he awaits sentencing.
I think they’re both right. Dick Armey: blind AND drunk with ambition.
Tom DeLay: Confused and deceitful.
Bonus: Tweety, still reflexively bowing to discredited right wing power by inviting it on his show.
though this piece from madcows cool:
The Randy Cunningham “Hookergate” Scandal is not the first prostitution scandal involving close relatives of indicted defense contractor Brent Wilkes, The MadCowMorningNews has learned.
Brent Wilkes brother, Gregory Wilkes, managed the finances of The Wilkes Foundation, which was suspended by the State of California after failing to file financial statements for three years in a row.
When Greg Wilkes wasn’t busy failing to file required documents with the state on his brother’s charitable foundation, he was the Controller for an unfortunate “Bush Pioneer” named R.D. Hubbard, busted flying almost a dozen hookers by private jet in June of 2001 to a casino he owned to service men government documents have only identified as “48 wealthy guests.”
Back in the ’80’s Hubbard was involved in a number of Michael Milken-financed “greenmail” takeover attempts, partnered with Midland, Texas oilmen Wagner and Brown Ltd.
trangely, in 2001 Wagner and Brown became the last known registered owner of the Lear jet which belonged to terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard until it was seized by DEA agents in Orlando who found 43 lbs. of heroin onboard.
Tom-tub club: the answer is soak, leer.
he’s a bathological liar.
OT - Jeralyn at Talk Left notes the phone jamming conviction has been overturned on appeal. Not good.
LoudounLib @ 18
Even prisons have their standards.
OK, there’s delusional, and then there’s outright fucking DELUSIONAL.
How can the Bugman NOT KNOW that he looks like he’s either constitutionally incapable of telling the truth, or stark raving mad?
The “ostrich approach” to public appearances is not really a winning strategy. Everyone feels insulted by watching speakers on teevee who have their heads firmly implanted in the sand.
Honestly, these people make the case for never voting for GOP candidates ever again — all on their own, without help from adversaries or the press.
oh and BTW, DeLay calling ANYONE either drunk or blinded by ambition is the height of hypocrisy.
punaise @ 35
a bathological lye-r?
i have a complaint======
could people please list the REAL LINK instead of comments written over the link???????????
i try to send stuff on–to media, etc…….and pdf links are impossible to send if i can’t catch the link…the link happens too quickly to copy it….have to send them to here, and get the link themselves……..would be much more effective if i could copythe link and then send on…………ie-the missing 18 days emails from earlier…was covered in a comment over the link-hit it and link happens to quickly to copy it to send it on, is a really aggravating thing that happens here a lot…..sent on to the diane rehm show, but couldn’t catch the pdf link quick enough to just send them the direct link……..very aggravating………….so, could people please start posting the DIRECT address instead of a comment over it?????????????????
oh I dunno . . .
Alan @ 19
Delay and Coulter should not be given the time of day, much less read.
[Mod] - Thanks for feedback.
Hope watertiger got to see the KO clip w/piglets & tiger cubs :-)
Tom @ 39
For a moment, I was sure Jane had gotten the subject and predicate mixed up in that quote. But then, I remembered who she’s quoting.
During his time in the Texas Legislature, he struggled with alcoholism and gained a reputation as a playboy, earning the nickname “Hot Tub Tom”.
Here (above) is the relevant passage in the link Elliott helpfully provided.
And then there was another interesting bit, which proves apples don’t fall far from the GOP family tree –
If I’m not mistaken, there were newspaper reports that Delay’s daughter entertained lobbyists in a hot tub, drinking wildly expensive champagne to avoid the threat of dehydration.
But in the end Chris slimed him. When Delay said that Shumer got favors from the media Chris retorted with, but you have Rush and Sean to be on your side.
Thank you Tom Delay goodbye. I was almost forgiving him
ifthethunderdontgetya @
33
Tweety treated DeLay with a respect he does not deserve, then later referred to Al Gore as “the bathtub ring that Clinton left.”
dmac @ 41
You can still copy the link. Here’s an example:
Gathering of Eagles
Now if you right click on that link, you will be able to copy the shortcut to wikipedia’s entry on a Flock of Seagulls.
Just sayin’.
Hugh @ 37
;-)
Anyone remember the part in Eating Raoul where Paul Bartel gets fed up with the whole swinger scene and throws an electric heater into the hot tub - electrocuting everyone?
cbl @ 42
Oh no, and she’s from my state!
oooh Jane, forgot all about Senator Leahy’s reservations about Madam Prosecutor - something tells me he hasn’t :)
neurophius @ 48
Tweety made his bones on the Clintons
Make no mistake about his loyalties or agenda.
His hardball is a spitter.
dmac - If you right click on this link and click copy link location…then go right click and paste where you want it… the original link is preserved..walla walla..) hth
Next stop, Sugarland … All aboard!
;>)
Another near-dead Republlican corpse Newt Gingrich seems to
be attempting to cleanse and redeem his sordid hypocritical
past in an attempt to be President. Just like the Bug-man
lets keep driving stakes into them. Just maybe they would
STFU. Though Republicans know no shame and lie through their
shit eating smiles. At least dogs keep themselves clean.
Wolcott on Bush (and Matthews’ reaction).
LoudounLib @
18
oh, it’s just another case of justice DeLayed is justice denied.
(Wm. Gladstone)
707 LOL Bwahahahahahahahahha. This is too funny. The quotes belong in Bartlett’s
FDL folks-
Please don’t let Tweety get away with downplaying the USA firing scandal because he thinks there’s no cover up (he said that’s what got him incensed about the Libby scandal). E-mail him at hardball@msnbc.com to remind him of the 18 day e-mail gap reported by David Shuster and KO. Please tell him to “Wake up and smell the cover up!” and stop telling the American people that there’s nothing to see here.
pinson @ 50
French pop singer Claude Francois:
I laughed for over 15 seconds over the picture “How you doin?” Thanks!
Jane,
Can’t wait to see the results of yesterday’s survey about what FDL pups would like to see with regard to financing your patriotic endeavors.
Oh, I think I’m going to be sick.
Maybe they’ve got the bugman making the rounds to remind people that they’ve cleaned up their act. After all HTT isn’t actually part of the cabal anymore, he’s just a spokesman.
Now, excuse me I’m going to throw up.
Monk. SPECTACULAR!
punaise @ 62
That’s a candidate for the Darwin Awards if I ever heard one.
BTW, how on earth does one “fix” a broken light bulb? Was he trying to glue the filament back together?
Yesterday Quebecois called me Ghostwriter, and now as I check in during KO commercials I see reference to Tom DeLay’s ghost writer. Stop That! You guys are giving us gnomes a bad name.
“Goddamit, my lightbulb broke again! Now, where’s that bathtub?”
get with it=
born again people want to see people they had faith in be redeemed…i know a few, you all are missing how strong this bond is….delay is being redeemed….it’ll take a lot more to get rid of him…..the more his face is seen, the more they are behind him………as misunderstood, and right…..bubbling back up to the surface……no matter how many times you drown him……..
he is a cat with nine lives…….as all demons are…….
he is best ignored as irrelevant and no longer in power, being no longer in power will matter to those who followed him……..he is very much still in power in the fundamentalist base that surged to put him into power……..but they follow who is in power, and it will come about that he no longer has any and lives in virginia..it’ll just take a little while and it’ll be apparent…….patience
Gnome de Plume @ 68
no offense meant– missed that and am personally fond of gnomes.
;)
cleter @ 69
Well, you know the old saying:
“When all you have is a bathtub, everything looks like a lightbulb.”
;-)
Tom @ 32
and with us here today to examine the hypnotic effect Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh has on his followers is Charles Manson currently on bail. Tell us mr. Manson…
Bugman now lives in the Commonwealth? I did not know that. Really thinking I should move…
nope -
Alice Fisher (R - Panic)
per my note above - Pat Leahy had serious reservations about her lack of prosecutorial experience (among other things) - hell, so did Specter
per Jane’s thread (2 back) some non partisan group has written DOJ asking about the hold up on all kinds of investigations that at one time appeared to be thriving . . .stay tuned
and those of you who live-blog the nightly shows—-please do, i have no cable or msm channels, only pbs,i appreciate the updates
Sorry to be OT, and to bring up the divine Valerie Plame Wilson with the debauched DeLay, but….an update….2 nights ago, I reported that I heard that Valerie Plame Wilson was not going to be the featured speaker at the University of Iowa because of “ongoing legal issues” and that her husband Ambassador Joseph Wilson would be speaking in her stead.
After 2 days of probing…I have only this: Joseph Wilson will be the featured speaker in place of Valerie for the University of Iowa Lecture Series: The Politics of Truth at the Main Lounge, at the Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City on Monday, March 26th, at 7:30pm.
I’m still waiting for more info @ the “ongoing legal issues”.
dmac @ 70
Kinda like Rasputin.
Tom Delay, the Undead.
Monk. FANTASTIC!
No doubt about it, and I’m not wearing my glasses either, but Tom Delay is a pig’s ass.
“Curse these maintenance-intensive light bulbs! Always needing repairs! I’d best strip down and get in the tub, lest I get light bulb grease on my finery.”
Mrs. K8- LOL. Because you usually don’t do quips. More, please.
Whatever Tweety’s twisted kelp forest of animus for the Clintons and Gore, you’d think at some point he’d realize he’s making a joke of…himself. Pathethic, whiny, jealous… his unprofessional displays say far more about him than about Clinton-Gore.
And caring thoughts for Elizabeth Edwards–I saw a chyron line that John Edwards cancelled all today’s campaign events to go with her to a dr’s appt.
carmen @ 77
Valerie can’t speak until the deal with her book is worked out with the CIA. I suspect that’s the issue.
KO just said “effing”!!!
I wish Tom Delay would do some lightbulb repairs in that there tub.
LoudounLib @ 74
NO– stay and fight. The bugman shall goeth. Webb is there, Allen is gone. Next up, Davis, Cantor, Bliley and Warner– kaput.
I’ll fight every step of the way with you.
dingo_kidney @ 17
Think I’ve found the answer to origin of HTT moniker:
http://www.kissmybigbluebutt.com/#March_21
If you’ve not met her, it’s my pleasure to introduce you to Susan DuQuesnay Bankston, former owner of “Juanita’s Beauty Salon”.
Enjoy ;-)
Hot photo, Jane. He’s so buff.
Heidi @ 61
I sent him the 18-day gap info this morning as soon as I saw it online. He doesn’t want to know about this stuff.
dmac @ 41
See my response to your posting this in the last thread, here:
http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....ent-575724
I couldn’t agree more. Why would these people be give air time? Like misbehaving children, they need to be ignored.
tragic. gotta watch out for being so preoccupied you’re careless. recently having a sandwich i casually decided to one-handed fold in half the large coffee tin lid i’d opened that morning. Hello gash that almost took the finger off!
You’re right Angie, I am staying put for the fight! :-)
“18 Day Gap” would be a good name for a band.
Valley Girl –
Here’s my secret to making (rare) with the witticisms:
Sleep deprivation.
[Warning: Use this technique at your own risk.]
Re: Hot Tub Tom photo:
Between the hair & the props, brings to mind every party scene in “Boogie Nights”…
Waccamaw @ 88
that’s funny!
LMAO!
(late to thread)
if the thunder
Gathering of Eagles
Now if you right click on that link, you will be able to copy the shortcut to wikipedia’s entry on a Flock of Seagulls.
Just sayin’.
yeah, the ones i’m complainin’ about are direct pdf links that go directly to acrobat and the link is too quick to catch…not a web link, but a pdf link, the web links i can copy, the pdf links i can’t…….and it’s a pain when i want to pass it on……….
Did anyone see this beautiful smackdown of Inhofe by Boxer today.
I’m lovin’ it.
punaise @ 35
Oh, the bathos!
Scarborough’s opening comments on his show tonight are about American Idol?
Jeez. Recently the former Governor of Arizona, Fife Symington, admitted publicly that he had seen a UFO. If I see one? I just may yell out, “hey! Get me the hell outta here!”
the bathos fear descends so deep….
The comments on this blog are sending it down the drain.
cleter @ 95
Or a Tom Lehrer song–where is he when we need him?
oh goodness– wrt my 87 not Bliley, but Goode and Davis.
punaise @ 104
The depths of Tom’s soul is the shallow end of the pool….
damn, I got epu’d before my santorum comment
Mrs. K8 @ 96
And you too! I was thinking about a modification of the old joke “how many CAians does it take to change a light bulb (in a bathtub)” but I just couldn’t some up with the answer.
Eli’s upstairs with An Inconvenient Reminder.
New thread.
allan_in_upstate @ 105
We’re flush with `em. :)
A Gathering of Beagles
inmymind’seye @ 101
Inhofe out-inhofed himself!
Looks like Eli’s upstairs
oregon dave thanks–
but when i click on it, the new window happens so fast that the address is lost, immediately converts, when goes to acrobat text, is a wink of an eye then there it is……….is not like when linked to a site, which i can copy at leisure………any tips for that?
The Republican Right Wing have become delusional liars.
Just like Coulter claiming that faggot is not a derogatory slur against gays.
How dishonest can they be for heaven’s sake?
-GSD
dmac @ 117
IIRC the address of a pdf is available in it’s properties
In any event, the ‘rightclick>copy shortcut’ should paste nicely into emails to friends
dmac @
100