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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:39 AM
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Delay gets booed and laughed at by a room full of women

http://www.brazosriver.com/hammertime.htm

Tom DeLay’s appearance at the Rosenberg Civic Center last weekend to explain teacher retirement was everything I could have wished for – Tom was arrogant, rude, patronizing, and I have 400 witnesses to prove it. And then, as if determined to make this the best day of my entire life, Tom threatened to have people “removed” and would not allow the news media into the room.

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However, I did think that my fellow audience members were a little rough on Tom with all their booing and sardonic laughter. After all, Tom was slumming by coming to Rosenberg. With schoolteachers, for Socrates’ sake! Schoolteachers don’t have any money and the Rosenberg Civic Center is certainly a long slide down from the country club or Haughty’s Steak House. I think Tom was expecting the Mother Teresa Award for Being a Regular Guy because of this event. But instead, he got booed. And, worse yet, laughed at. By mostly women. Hundreds of them.

It restored my faith in sisterhood.

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Tom sat on the stage with the experts that he brought to help him to explain things, kinda like President Bush has to help Vice President Dick Cheney explain things to the 911 Commission. As you’ll notice from the picture, Tom’s experts were all fluffy white boys come to ‘splain things to women, minority folks, and other people they consider childlike and charmingly stupid.

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Well, there was one African American male who was introduced as an expert but he sat in the audience. When the womenfolks started asking questions that the fluffy white boys couldn’t answer, Tom brought the African American male on stage. When he didn’t snap-to as Tom has come to expect from people who don’t want to get their heads bitten off, Tom snarled at him, “Answer me! Answer me!” The crowd got ugly. They booed Tom’s little temper tantrum. Well, not all of them did. Some chose to do that thing where you shake your hand from the wrist and make that “woooooo” sound like you’re pretending to be scared when you’re not scared at all but you’re making fun of a short little guy who’s trying to be a scary bully to impress the girls but he’s not impressing anybody at all especially the girls. I personally like that move a lot.
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damn, wish I could post more - you will just have to read it.

(it is well known by women, that to laugh at a man can be deadly. is Tom a payback kind of man?)
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:45 AM
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1. Thanks, my cynical, tired ol heart needed that
Trying to work a roomful of schoolmarms was a fools errand for ol Tom
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:46 AM
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2. Thank you, that made my day. n/t
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:49 AM
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3. From one teacher to another
Priceless!
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prodigal_green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:51 AM
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4. schoolteachers and soldiers are on the front lines
Of *s War on People. They have to deal with the consequences of his failed policies every day. I'm glad they gave Delay what for.

You go girls!
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smiley_glad_hands Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:51 AM
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5. WoooHoooo there is hope!
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mourningdove92 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:52 AM
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6. What a great story.
Thanks for sharing. I have passed it on to family and friends.
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mark11727 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:53 AM
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7. I read the article in the link ...
...and laffed and laffed and laffed.

Teachers... not dumb or somethin'.

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Gothmog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:54 AM
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8. Tom Delay is an arrogant idiot
I really do not like Tom Delay and found this story to be funny.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:56 AM
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9. Juanita is a treasure....
I've been reading her stuff for a long time. Check out the other articles at the site.


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lupita Donating Member (397 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 12:06 PM
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10. Thank you! Just brillian! n/t
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 12:11 PM
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11. Good thing they weren't nurses
We know how to hurt a guy, and overwork has made us cranky.

He wouldn't have gotten out alive.
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Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 12:13 PM
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12. That wonderful article was written by DU's own Brazosboomer.
I met her at Richard Morrison's kickoff party. Very nice lady! Well, except when it comes to politics... then she's a spitfire!!!
:evilgrin:
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