Tom DeLay did more harm to America than anyone to serve in the House.DeLay is one of the most corrupt people in The United States. Dirty money,bribery, voter fraud the list goes on.I hope Earle in Texas puts DeLay's sorry a-- in jail where he belong's.Why would any news media quote anything this criminal says?Russert had him on Meet The Press which I've watched very few times since.

He looked up the meaning of the word treason in the book by that name by his favorite author.

I've had enough of that cockroach. Someone get a big, big paper towel!

"The betrayal of one's country, esp. by aiding an enemy. A handing over."

Who is "aiding our enemy" in Iraq is most certainly debatable at this point. And exactly who pray tell is responsible for our soldiers STILL being on the ground in Iraq? Hmmmm.

"Cheney hasn't been right yet." (a quote of Sen. Joe Biden)

And if Sen. Harry Reid has "waffled" - god bless thinking Americans.

What a country!

Just imagine this panel on Sunday morning TV talk discussing the state of the economy: the venerated Alan Greenspan, his successor as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, and Elmer Fudd.

Envision, if you will, a roundtable discussion of personal investing featuring Suze Ormond, Jim Kramer, and Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling.

Absurd? Sure.

But is it more absurd than a draft dodger like Tom DeLay lecturing a 31-year veteran of the U.S. Navy about patriotism? Certainly not.

Yet that’s what happened recently on “Meet the Press.”

Most people will remember DeLay as the morally challenged, ethically casual, intellectually bankrupt hack who was chased from his leadership position in the House of Representatives by the Ethics Committee, a majority of whom was Republican. They will also remember DeLay as the confidante and cohort of Jack Abramoff, currently residing in a federal penitentiary. They might also recall DeLay’s sensitivity in dealing with those displaced by Hurricane Katrina when he said to three young evacuees: “Now tell me the truth boys, isn’t this kind of fun?” In more candid conversations, DeLay once told a waitress who asked him to extinguish a cigar “I AM the federal government.” On CNN, DeLay was even more candid when he denied he was a government employee, insisting instead “I am the Constitution.”

Fewer might remember DeLay excused himself for ducking the Vietnam War by saying, “so many minority youths volunteered (in Vietnam) there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself.” Yet there he sat –with Joe Sestak, a retired Vice Admiral with 31 years of honorable service, pontificating about patriotism and telling Congressman Sestak that he couldn’t be a patriot and didn’t support the troops if he favors a timed withdrawal from that quagmire. It’s amazing the other people assembled around the table kept straight faces and didn’t gag on DeLay’s perfidious twaddle.

Is that what passes for intelligent discourse these days? Laying aside the interrogative imperative of who cares a whit for what Tom DeLay thinks, forget what he says and consider what he did while still in a leadership role in the Congress.

DeLay promoted selective intelligence to lead the nation into the first pre-emptive war in our history. He voted and demanded others vote to sent troops off to war under-trained and ill equipped. His contention that “in the face of war, nothing is more important than cutting taxes” led the House of Representatives to under-fund the Veterans Administration that is charged with caring for the injured soldiers of the war he supported. One result of that under-funding was the recently exposed maltreatment of injured soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Another result of it is the continuing redeployment of troops already injured and physically suspect of being able to fight. To Tom DeLay and his cabal, “supporting the troops” means wearing that little flag in your lapel, slapping a magnet on your car, and cheerleading the continuing war without end, amen.

None of this, however, should be surprising. DeLay’s radical politics once led candidate George Bush to tell DeLay to tone down his rhetoric until after Bush got elected. What is a surprise is that commentators inside the Beltway think DeLay is relevant to anything going on in Washington. He may give good quote but DeLay’s intellectual vacuity is legendary. He was a hack and a hatchet man and a corrupt one at that. Yet he is invited to the table with thoughtful, intelligent people as though he were one of them.

The age of rich media, with all the news managed by the entertainment divisions of big corporations, makes for poor democracy. People like Tom DeLay make for dumb democracy as well. More importantly, it is insulting to have such a conniving partisan sit at the same table with proven patriot.

is who gives a shit about what this ethically bankrupt, morally bereft, intellectually challenged moron has to say? This is the guy, after all, who said he didn't go to Vietnam because the minorities had taken all the spots so "patriotic folks' like him couldn't get in. Now does that actually sound like someone who would even know how to look something up even if he was struck with the intellectual curiosity to do so?

Let's go over this one more time - Tom Delay got kicked out of the House while his own party was in control! They were even embarassed by his moral rectitude. (Imagine that - Republicans repulsed by questionable ethics.) He is soon going to trial. He is the Paris Hilton of politicians. And yet people still print what he says. I hesitate to say they print what he "thinks," as it is impossible for me to believe there is any thought before verbal diarrhea spews out of his vile mouth like his question to Katrina evacuees - "now tell me the truths, boys, isn't this really kind of fun?"

He might be fun to look at and make fun of but why does the media persist in the notion that Tom Delay is of the slightest interest to this country?