WP: DeLay Urges House Conservatives to Stick to Their Guns on Budget, Social I

DeLay Urges House Conservatives to Stick to Their Guns on Budget, Social Issues

Acoalition of the most conservative House Republicans, the Republican Study Committee, showed its clout by luring House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) to a retreat in Baltimore on Friday for luncheon remarks urging them to stick to their principles on budget and social questions. He drew a standing ovation -- at least the third he has received from House Republicans in the past two weeks, despite the possibility of future legal trouble.

In addition to a constitutional amendment restricting same-sex marriage, a priority for the group, led by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), is a bill that would require physicians to tell women seeking an abortion at least 20 weeks into their pregnancies that their fetuses could feel pain, and require that the women be offered anesthesia for the fetuses.

About 50 of the 100 caucus members attended along with Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.). Other speakers included group founder Charles W. Colson and former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.).

The group went to Oriole Park at Camden Yards for a dinner marking the 10th anniversary of the swearing-in of the "revolutionary" class elected in 1994.
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....influencing public policy?

Delay's got too much bug spray stuck up his ass.

Neurological damage from chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides!

Never turn down a request from the thugs that make up the Republican mafia.

I must make clear I'm talking about these rogue repugs-- Eisenhower was certainly sane enough.

They're like some kind of aggressive cancer-- or flesh-eating bacteria-- or locusts. Piranhas maybe?

I don't understand why they want to destroy the citizenry (and that's not just Dems/liberals, but repugs and bible thumpers as well)

They have no souls.

But there is a certain humor about it. A bunch of rich, unethical, and racist white men telling the country that the poor and the women, and the needy just need what this group says they need.

On second thought, it's not funny.

and a malignant tumor.

A hatefull man, determined to punish us all for his sins.

"scum of the earth" is a good one but even it is too good for them.

Guess we'll have to start making some up!!

He is a criminal, plain and simple.