Buh-bye Tom. Hello to the New Jack Abramoff

While I applaud Tom DeLay’s decision to resign the House of Representatives, his threat to find new ways to save the world from Democrats bothers me.

“My love for the Republican Party has played no small part in this decision,” he said.

I predict Tom will be the new Jack Abramoff. Older, uglier, and more obnoxious maybe, but just as rotten to the core.

Democrats retaking Congress, he said, would be disastrous, replete with tax hikes, a cut-and-run stance in the war on terror and antics such as a presidential impeachment gambit.

See what I mean? Much as I’d like to rejoice with abandon, I’m afraid we haven’t heard the last of Tom.

“After many weeks of personal, prayerful thinking and analysis, I have come to the conclusion that it is time to close this public service chapter of my life,” DeLay said.

“It’s time to begin opening new chapters and pursuing new opportunities to engage in the important cultural and political battles of our day from outside the arena of the United States House of Representatives,” said DeLay.

Hmmm. You know he took long enough from all that “prayerful thinking” to include a little “planning and scheming thinking” in there too.

Now that Tommy will no longer be a public “servant,” he will be free of many of those cumbersome restrictions on accepting and using the funds raised for his PAC to run the DeLay household and pay off his allies. Big Pharma and foreign governments, start making those withdrawals! I predict Tom will be the new Jack Abramoff. Older, uglier, and more obnoxious maybe, but just as rotten to the core.

Yes indeed, the sky’s the limit. No wonder Tom’s future is so bright he’s gotta wear shades.

…I’m excited about the future, which holds as always America’s brightest days and mine, too. Thank you and may God bless you all. He has certainly blessed me.”

Or maybe you’re just living proof that nice guys finish last.

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I suspect he’ll be way too busy being indicted to cause the sort of mischief he’s describing. I think this is the “happy talk” I referred to in my earlier post about DeLay’s resignation.

Buh-bye Tom. Hello to the New Jack Abramoff

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Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”