Tonight on Nightline: An entire show about Tom Delay...

...I hope to God they spotlight his crimes.

Note: I rec'v a Nightline email daily--and this is the text of that email.

THE HAMMER: Majority Leader Tom DeLay's Rise to Power
March 24, 2005

He has had many nicknames over the years, from "Tom Dereg" to "Hot Tub Tom" to "The Hammer." But now he is simply the most powerful member of Congress in recent memory -- and among the most controversial. He is simultaneously respected and feared here in the nation's capital -- where respect and fear can be the coin of the realm.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who this week led the controversial charge for Congress to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case, is not officially the most powerful Republican in Washington. Certainly, the president holds that title. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist are major party leaders. But there is little doubt that when it comes to wielding power in the Republican Party today, Tom DeLay is without peer.

But lately, that power is being threatened by various charges of improprieties. He has been investigated multiple times by the House Ethics Committee -- and was rebuked by that committee three times in the last year alone. And among the list of Republican politicians that Democrats love to hate, especially those still seething from the way DeLay pushed for the impeachment of President Clinton, Tom DeLay is certainly at the top of the list -- perhaps even knocking Dick Cheney out of the top spot.

But since none of these charges has done much to diminish his power, some are wondering if DeLay's next nickname might be "Teflon Tom."

Tonight, "Nightline's" Chris Bury reports on DeLay's rise to power -- quite a ride for a former owner of a small Texas extermination business.

We hope you'll join us.

Is Nightline actually going to expose this nut? I'll watch! Chris soes a decent job most of the time...we'll see.

I have better things to do with my time, wash my hair, etc.

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to thank them also.

Wolcott has Delay about right:

http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/03/bughouse_bedlam.php

I don't want to hear any cultural virtucrat ever again work up a lot of flatulent thunder about 50 Cent or The Game or gangsta rap when the biggest thug around is a middle-aged white man who swaggers through the House as majority leader, making his own rules, punishing his enemies, and using his power and position to lash out against a private citizen with a sneering bullying not seen since Roy Cohn rotted away. I speak of course of the Bugman Thugman. A man who uses an insecticide inhaler to psych himself up to trash his opponents and defile the rules that don't apply to an ubermensch with slush funds pouring out of his enema bag. A man who would wheel Terry Schiavo to home plate for the Washington Nationals home opener if he thought there was any political upside to it.

Wolcott has Delay about right:

http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/03/bughouse_bedlam.php

I don't want to hear any cultural virtucrat ever again work up a lot of flatulent thunder about 50 Cent or The Game or gangsta rap when the biggest thug around is a middle-aged white man who swaggers through the House as majority leader, making his own rules, punishing his enemies, and using his power and position to lash out against a private citizen with a sneering bullying not seen since Roy Cohn rotted away. I speak of course of the Bugman Thugman. A man who uses an insecticide inhaler to psych himself up to trash his opponents and defile the rules that don't apply to an ubermensch with slush funds pouring out of his enema bag. A man who would wheel Terry Schiavo to home plate for the Washington Nationals home opener if he thought there was any political upside to it.

and one of the characters in it said it wouldn't be homicide, it would be insecticide. I am still laughing.

"Selfish married people using birth control today and not having ENOUGH children." WHO THE HELL DOES THIS MAN THINK HE IS?

How he described Delay last night on Hardball.

"Most people don't know who he is around the country. Outside of his district, people don't care about him. He's not that much of a player." (paraphrased)

That was his response to the guy who taped Delay's speech. He is with separation Of church and state group.

He did nail Ken Connor from Family Outreach Council when he said it wasn't a partisan issue.

One of my favorite question for strange behavior... Are they stupid or corupt behind all hope?

AValdoux

Molly really knows her Texas pols, and she's got DeLay's number BIG TIME:

There is a woman being interviewed and she is ragging on Delay big time!