The Tom DeLay Factor
Something I posted erstwhere: Bill Frist is trying to figure out how to win the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire Primary. Tom DeLay has an Ethics Controversy swirving over his head, generally fended off in the background — mostly due to the power he wields. And you throw Senator Nelson of Florida, D, on the spot while you’re at it.
As though to prove my point about Tom DeLay, we find this nutty quote, shades of “Vast Left Wing Conspiracy”.
“One thing that God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo, to help elevate the visibility of what is going on in America,” Mr. DeLay told a conference organized by the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. A recording of the event was provided by the advocacy organization Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
“This is exactly the issue that is going on in America, of attacks against the conservative movement, against me and against many others,” Mr. DeLay said.
Mr. DeLay complained that “the other side” had figured out how “to defeat the conservative movement,” by waging personal attacks, linking with liberal organizations and persuading the national news media to report the story. He charged that “the whole syndicate” was “a huge nationwide concerted effort to destroy everything we believe in.”
It’s a curious charge for perhaps the most powerful member of the undoubtedly most powerful Party to be throwing out… that those mean (and, I might add, powerless) liberals keep sniping away… despite everything. (I mean, Don’t they realize they lost an election?)
I am confused as to what story DeLay is referring to that the instruments of vindictive vilous hate are persuading the national news media to report. Something on the order of David Brooks’s column? I don’t know.