# Just fuck you, Tom Delay **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 24, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824 "2010-11-24T23:18:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/1 "2010-11-24T23:18:21Z")
[Have fun](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/us/politics/25delay.html?hp) in that federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison you’re going to. All that noble speech and righteous indignation, and all along you were just a common criminal and a liar. Fuck you. That should be DeLay, if a mod can fix it. crap ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/2 "2010-11-24T23:30:16Z")
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Eight years after the crime and five years after his indictment, he is convicted, long after the damage he caused to the democratic process in Texas has been institutionalized. He faces life in prison. I hope he gets it. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/3 "2010-11-24T23:37:36Z")
Another patriot destroyed by the liberal media! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/4 "2010-11-24T23:38:00Z")
Wow. He faces seven years to life (or five to life, if they allow concurrent sentences). I’ll be interested to see what he gets and what he actually serves. I am glad that he’s going to jail, though I don’t think that what he’s convicted of is really his most egregious wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/5 "2010-11-25T00:24:33Z")
_The judge he smiled when he picked up his pen Ninety-nine years in the Huntsville pen Ninety-nine years underneath that ground But I can’t forget the day I spread that money around_ (with apologies to George Thorogood) Well, we can dream anyway. Maybe a sentence of a couple years with part suspended for poor, poor martyred Tom. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/6 "2010-11-25T00:30:54Z")
I smell… something on the wind, something familiar? Yes, an attempt at moral equivalence… the mention of a Democrat who also did something bad once… the footsteps approach! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/7 "2010-11-25T00:33:20Z")
Traficant!! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/8 "2010-11-25T00:34:09Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I smell… something on the wind, something familiar? Yes, an attempt at moral equivalence… the mention of a Democrat who also did something bad once… the footsteps approach! James Trafficant. Whew, glad we got that outta the way. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/9 "2010-11-25T00:35:12Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Traficant!! Damn you. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/10 "2010-11-25T00:54:56Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > pound-me-in-the-ass prison Is there any chance, any chance at all, of dropping this ridiculous meme? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/11 "2010-11-25T01:22:53Z")
Well, he won’t, even if he actually gets some time. Which I doubt. The case is now in the Texas Justice System, it will wander the halls of appeal, and appeals of denied appeals, and, sooner or later, a way will be found to cut him loose. Forget it, Jake. Its Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/12 "2010-11-25T01:32:44Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I smell… something on the wind, something familiar? Yes, an attempt at moral equivalence… the mention of a Democrat who also did something bad once… the footsteps approach! I’ve been waiting for a “this is old news, who cares?” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/13 "2010-11-25T01:38:51Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Is there any chance, any chance at all, of dropping this ridiculous meme? Why no. . .no there isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/14 "2010-11-25T01:47:49Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Is there any chance, any chance at all, of dropping this ridiculous meme? Of course it should be Federal- pound that jerk we don’t like in the ass- prison. If Chefguy wants to get pounded in the ass because DeLay goes to prison, well that’s his thing. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/15 "2010-11-25T01:51:53Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [Have fun](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/us/politics/25delay.html?hp) in that federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison you’re going to. Why would it be a federal prison? he was convicted in state court of breaching a Texas law, wasn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/16 "2010-11-25T01:54:02Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [Have fun](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/us/politics/25delay.html?hp) in that federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison you’re going to. Nitpick: state pound-me-in-the-ass prison. DeLay was prosecuted by the Travis County District Attorney on state law violations. ETA - Re: Northern Piper, yes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/17 "2010-11-25T01:59:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Is there any chance, any chance at all, of dropping this ridiculous meme? What I’ve been waiting for is the shock, the revulsion, the disgust that we send marginally criminal people to factories for manufacturing sociopaths. We think its funny. There are any number of people who deserve to go to prison. That does not mean they deserve to go to Hell. Without proportionality, justice is mere vengeance. The sadistic irony of it is that those who least destructive and dangerous suffer far out of proportion to their crimes, the worst, the true monsters, thrive in prison. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/18 "2010-11-25T02:18:04Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Why would it be a federal prison? he was convicted in state court of breaching a Texas law, wasn’t he? Either is fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/19 "2010-11-25T02:31:46Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Is there any chance, any chance at all, of dropping this ridiculous meme? Sure. But don’t drop the meme in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824/20 "2010-11-25T02:58:53Z")
I look forward to Tom’s debut as a paid FoxNews commentator. And also his radio show. We all owe Ollie North a huge debt. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-fuck-you-tom-delay/561824.md?page=2)