# Attention Tom DeLay, you are NOT like Terry Schiavo **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 24, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971 "2005-03-24T00:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/61 "2005-03-26T04:06:16Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > The boards are stacked against conservatives, and we have the balls to stick around, so why not fight back? Help help! I’m being oppressed! Jesus, what a fucking stupid excuse. “Ooooh, no one likes us conservatives!” Good god, talk about persecution complexes. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/62 "2005-03-26T04:07:48Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Uhh…isn’t Hastert the leader of the house? I believe so-DeLay was Majority Whip. I think anyone who’s interested in DeLay should read _The Hammer_. What a fucked up psychopath. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/63 "2005-03-26T04:16:57Z")
**Squink** -it’s a foolish path to take where fringe nutbags are cited to disparage your opponent, as the tool will surely turn upon you. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/64 "2005-03-26T04:21:43Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Uhh…isn’t Hastert the leader of the house? :smack: Yup, I meant Whip. (More important come vote time, though) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/65 "2005-03-26T04:23:35Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I believe so-DeLay was Majority Whip. I think anyone who’s interested in DeLay should read _The Hammer_. What a fucked up psychopath. Then blame Texans for electing him, not Republicans way the fuck up in North Dakota. Our three donkey dicks are all Dems. (Thanks for helping me clear up the Speaker/Whip brain-fart I had) ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/66 "2005-03-26T05:07:22Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > **Squink** -it’s a foolish path to take where fringe nutbags are cited to disparage your opponent, as the tool will surely turn upon you. So Tom deLay had nothing to do with stirring up the nuts? Only a fool could believe that. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/67 "2005-03-26T05:11:54Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > So Tom deLay had nothing to do with stirring up the nuts? Only a fool could believe that. Well, other than what I’ve read on these boards, I don’t know what DeLay had to say about it. Yet, I’m still a nut. Shall I take humbrage at you calling **danceswithcats** a fool? SHALL I? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/68 "2005-03-26T05:15:05Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Shall I take humbrage Is that a very modest person’s tantrum? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/69 "2005-03-26T06:21:06Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Is that a very modest person’s tantrum? :dubious: Fuck, what’s the word I was looking for? (the one meaning I was offended and defending you) I just _knew_ self de-toxing for the last few days wouldn’t work out well. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/70 "2005-03-26T06:34:09Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Fuck, what’s the word I was looking for? (the one meaning I was offended and defending you) > I just _knew_ self de-toxing for the last few days wouldn’t work out well. :smack: You were almost right; it’s “umbrage”, my humbly outrageous fellow. Of course, as Mark Twain once observed, the difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2005, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/71 "2005-03-26T07:47:24Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > You were almost right; it’s “umbrage”, my humbly outrageous fellow. > > Of course, as Mark Twain once observed, the difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug. _snort_ Thanks for clearing it up, I thought there was a silent “h” in it. But now that the bug has become a bolt… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/72 "2005-03-27T05:01:52Z")
[Tom DeLay Took His Own Father Off Life Support in 1988](http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000855929) > [@](#): > > “DeLay has denounced Schiavo’s husband, as well as judges, for committing what he calls ‘an act of barbarism,’ in removing the tube,” the L.A. Times reported. “In 1988, however, there was no such fiery rhetoric as the congressman quietly joined the sad family consensus to let his father die." ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/73 "2005-03-27T21:57:02Z")
Hey, if you want me to jump in and slam these guys, I’d be happy to. This kind of crap shows the absolute worst side of the Republicans. That, plus Bush’s steel tariffs, the stupid medicare drug plan, ag subsidies, and the Republicans’ complete inability to control spending even a little despite controlling both houses and the presidency makes me ill. I’d be happy to support the Democrats to punish them, except for the problem that the Democrats are worse. And MUCH worse on the critical issue of the day, terrorism and security. You Dems have an opportunity, because the Republicans are blowing it. But you’re busy doing some self-destructing of your own. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/74 "2005-03-27T22:10:39Z")
Right, it’s “the” Republicans but “you” Dems you see vying for your worthless support, as always. Pity it isn’t the Liberals, Alliance, and NDP. This notion you have that “we” Dems are weak on terrorism and security does not stand up to even minimal analysis, btw, but you’re welcome to try that in GD if you’re feeling like resisting yet another educational experience. :wally: ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/75 "2005-03-27T22:20:14Z")
I see no connection between terrorism/security and DeLays ethics “problems”. The fact that he is trying to make political hay off of Schiavo, when he himself chose to pull the plug once just reveals him as a bigger hypocritical shit stain than I thought he was. His bullshit edtiorial piece just makes it more obvious. Let’s unplug DeLay. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-tom-delay-you-are-not-like-terry-schiavo/295971/76 "2005-03-27T23:37:56Z")
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