Public Enemy Number One: Tom Delay

It appears I am not the only person out there who has lost their patience with the hypocrisy of Tom Delay. Yesterday, the Public Campaign Action Fund released a television ad they are going to be running to put pressure on Congress to look into Mr. Delay’s ethical transgressions. His response? “Bring it on… [m]y constituents know what’s going on.”

So, apparently, it is on.

The PCAF also has a blog, the Daily Delay to track the wheelings and dealings of the man from Sugar Land.
Salon has a couple of good summaries of Delays ethics violations (at least the ones we know about so far): All About Delay and Tom Delay’s Funny Money Trail.

There’s a lot of irony in a Republican leader who helped kill federalism. And Dahlia Lithwick has a great editorial over at Slate, in which she points out that Mr. Delay, a champion of the “sanctity of marriage” doesn’t care about the sanctity of the Schiavo’s marriage. (“I don’t care what her husband says.”)

Apparently, Mr. Delay doesn’t care about the separation of powers, checks and balances, or the U.S. Constitution, either. He’s now on a campaign questioning the actions of the Federal judges in the Schaivo case. The judges that upheld the law. The law of the United States. This has got to be stopped. It’s more than political rhetoric; it’s dangerous. Mr. Delay, I hope you’re listening: if anything happens to any of those Federal justices in the way of vigilante violence, their blood will be on your hands and on the hands of any member of Congress who supports you.

Nick Penniman, program director at the Campaign For America’s Future, has a great editorial on TomPaine.com about how Tom Delay is a complete disgrace to the Republican Party and why they shouldn’t bother defending him.
It’s not only time for the Republicans to stop defending this cretin. It’s time for the rest of us to step up our diligence in making sure that they get the message loud and clear that we won’t tolerate this nonsense from our leaders. I sincerely hope Mr. Delay is dead wrong and that his constituents don’t know what’s going on. Because if they do, and they continue to support a man like Tom Delay, I’m afraid for us all.