Surely they must be joking
I rarely comment on politics or current events here because I know relatively little about either*, but this is too precious to pass up. Have you heard about this already? I know it’s a day or two old. . .
Tom DeLay’s defense team has sent out a “fact sheet” railing at the new Michael Moore-style documentary The Big Buy, which tells the story of DeLay’s “purchase” of his seat in Congress. To support their position, DeLay’s defenders enthusiastically point to the fact that STEPHEN COLBERT is on their side.
In fact, they’re so excited about their new champion that they’re currently hosting a clip from the Colbert Report at the top of the Defend Delay website. Eeeeeexcellent.
With geniuses like these running his legal defense fund, how can he lose?
I drive past DeLay’s office** twice a week on my way to teach in Clear Lake, and I always think I should stop and take a picture of the sign. Surely they’ll take it down soon. I’m surprised some joker hasn’t already absconded with it—it would make a nice souvenir.
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* Both? I would say “I know nothing about either” and “I know a lot about both,” but little seems to fall somewhere in between.
** One of his offices? I vaguely remember seeing another sign pointing to his office in a completely different part of town.
Tags: miscellany
May 25th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Reps usually have multiple offices in their constituencies, since they are fairly large. Delay has two offices, one in Stafford and one in Webster.
http://tomdelay.house.gov/Contact/
May 25th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Oh, okay. The other office I saw must’ve been the one in Stafford.
I checked out the map linked from that site, and wouldn’t you know, he’s my representative! Technically he isn’t, since I’m still registered in the district where my parents live, but Pearland is in his district.
And I have to say, those *are* some weirdly drawn borders. Let’s make a district comprised of Rosenberg . . . and Deer Park . . . and half of Texas City! And very few places in between!
May 25th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
ah yes- and thus the magic that is gerrymandering :-); the Supreme Court heard a case about Texas’ fucked up distric line drawing, during which Ruth Bader Ginsberg took a 15 minute siesta on the bench.
See, this is what allows representatives to choose their voters, instead of vice versa (which, if i recall correctly, is the way it’s supposed to work).
i dont understand - I wonder if the same guy that thinks Colbert supports DeLay is the same Bush staffer who thought Colbert supported Bush. I take it you’ve seen the clip of Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Balsy on his part, some staffer got fired, and Bush was f’in pissed.