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Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — whose accomplishments include outsourcing legislation to lobbyists, money laundering, playing golf with Jack Abramoff, and ultimately destroying any hope for his party to regain Congressional majorities in the near future — is now going on some measly radio show calling Barack Obama a “Marxist.” Silly Tom! That kind of blather belongs on the tawdry op-ed pages of the New York Times, not on America’s radio. [The Hill]
NEW YORK TIMES
Well, I guess a guy who tried his best to make a shadowy government of one party beholden to elites would know a marxist when he saw one.
Foolish Tom won’t be complaining when Barack Vladimir Obama becomes President and throws all those swallowtail-coated, Wall Street jackals in jail and he gets back the full value of his Eron stock
That’s no way to avoid the gulag, Tommie.
Why is this guy not yet in jail?
Thomas Dale Delay? How NASCAR is that?
Republican talking heads seem all the same: finger pointing and name calling, never any substance.
Off to Syberia with you, Tommie.
Republican talking heads seem all the same: finger pointing and name calling, never any substance.
Off to Syberia with you, Tommy.
…this may be dumb question but do the Republicans ever think before they start throwing bombs at their opponents? So far Barack Obama has been called a socialist, fascist, communist and now a Marxist. Im starting to think they have a fetish for words that end in “ist”.
Yes, please file that under…who the fuck cares what he thinks or says. He needs to go on that bug show on Discovery Channel.
HeelingToPort: Arrrg, sorry for the double posting. Fingers working faster than brain.
nhunter: …better question: Why isn’t this guy being passed around cell block D like a offering plate at a southern baptist church?!
“the kind of old school Marxist radical liberal failed ideology”
What kind was that again?
Dumbass Delay as always. Barry’s a neo-Trotskyite with a dash of anarcho-syndicalism.
ReelectTilden:
Damn straight…first against the wall come the Revolution, man.
OK, so we can add to the list of descriptors. Now it is MARXIST, Muslim, Terrorist, Luo, Gay, Crack Addict, Crazy Black Churchian, Elitist Shark God?
According to Kos, with teeth like that, he must be presidential material!
Go kill some bugs and avoid a draft, Hammer.
AngryBlakGuy: They don’t want him. They fear that their body parts would shrivel and fall off upon making contact with his scaly, reptilian nether regions. He is part basilisk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk
So I just looked at that picture, and Tom Delay is 5′ 1″ without the hair (whoever’s it is). I’ll bet his prison name’s going to be The Little Prince.
Wonkette’s best and truest headline ever.
Nice job.
I think that what is even more disturbing than Delay’s comments is the comments section following the Hill article hyperlinked above. There are still quite a large number of people who believe in Delay’s divinity. I needed a shower after reading them - most of them smelled of week-old pizza boxes, beer, vomit, stale sweat and trailer-parks. I guess if you breathe through your mouth, those odors don’t offend you.
AngryBlakGuy: Ironically, the “ist” type word that seems to come up most often with that crowd is ‘pederast’. (I know, it’s not ‘eye ess tee’, but I’m intellectually lazy.)
Doglessliberal: I worship him as the appeaser Messiah.
Isn’t he supposed to be in jail, starring in the role of bitch to someone named ‘Bubba’?
WadISay: bless you, child, go forth and toss arugula with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar in adoration.
This Marxist thing is the new GOP talking point. All the radio guys are using the term, they even have people calling the liberal shows who make this statement “You know, I don’t know much about this Obama guy, but what scares me most is that the things he says about everybody needing to be equal makes him kind of seem like a Marxist”
mookworthjwilson: but do the morans who listen even have a farggin clue what what Marxism is? I mean, seriously, talk about an elitist talking point. “Muslim” and “scary black man who smokes crack” a lot more effective.
He’s got Hypnotoad eyes.
AngryBlakGuy: You sho’ gotta purdy mouf, Tommy-Dale….time for a date with the health inspector..
“Squeeeeeal lahk a pig!”
Me: If I had a nickel for every time [a right-wing columnist] referred to liberals as Marxists, I’d be very, very rich.
Friend: Yeah, but you’d have to share it.
Well, DeLay is an Unethical Douchebaggist.
TGY: Unfortunately, he’ll be in an elitist prison for recovering rich republicans, with maids and butlers, and weekends off. Sigh.
All this being said, seeing Delay’s mugshot never fails to brighten my day. If General Secretary Obama will indeed create a Dictatorship of the Proletariat I’m okay with it as long as Delay gets a healthy dose of “political re-education.”
nowukkers: I think you forgot the slight hint of mildew from the couch left to the elements on the lawn, as well as the sickly sweet aroma of any one of the desserts from the favorite chef of that crowd, Little Debby.
Marxism-Luoism?
soymocha: Yes, but won’t this rip a hole in the space-time-Godwin’s Law continuum?
I can’t wait to hear Tom’s drunken rants on a regular basis in Right Wing World. Cue the “Tequila Song.”
Jewdishoowary Square: Ba-zing!
AngryBlakGuy: Doglessliberal: What’s this about tossing salad?
Advocatus_Diaboli: Oo Oo, can we get Terry Macaulif to give him the booze and the loud shirts, and then flirt with that hostess on Morning Joe? THAT would make my mornings.
Remember when he started his blog and opened it to unmoderated comments? I’m trying to find a cache of that, but no luck.
Found it:
http://www.tomdelaydotcom.blogspot.com/
Advocatus_Diaboli: Well, sure. There’s that.
Totally worth it, though.
mookworthjwilson:
In regardst to talk radio using ‘Marxist’ more often, I think that it’s due to the fact that the country is getting pretty sick of the GOP, the president in particular. I think he just enjoyed an uptick in the approval ratings… all the way up to 25%.
The term ‘liberal’ is probably shedding some of the negative connotation that conservatives have attached to it over the past 20 years, so now they have to come up with a term to replace it.
Rodney Badger: Christ, my officemates are looking at me like they’re worried I’m having a stroke. Who says political comedy gets dated?
Gopherit v2.0: His initial foray into the online marketplace of ideas was met with unexpected results.
Gopherit v2.0: AMEN! I’m sooo glad everyone has gone to lunch. I just lost it!
Sortofexpat: I was waiting for this…
Unless Tom Delay proves me wrong, he is a total asshole.
And Mike Gallagher molests collies.
Which Marxist was he referring to?
Groucho, Harpo or the other one?
Which Marxist was he referring to?
Groucho, Harpo or the other one? Or maybe its that hirsute ’80s songster, Richard Marx.
Doglessliberal:
I’m pretty sure “pro-sodomite” needs to be in their also.
And probably “Destoyer of the Innocent.”
Actually, I just got a copy of the Republican Talking Points:
“Barack Obama. Also known as Obama the Carpathian, Obama the Cruel, Obama the Torturer, Obama the Despised, and Obama the Unholy.”
Also, I’m sure “Proving I’m not a Marxist to Tom Delay” is not high on Obama’s list of priorities.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Subcreatures! Obama the Obamarian, Obama the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, the Traveler, has come! Choose and perish!
Jeez. Marxist. It’s getting pretty tiresome the way these troglodytes like DeLay keep throwing around ridiculously offbase labels like fascist and Marxist. I’m sure by now having graduated from college qualifies you as a Marxist in DeLay’s eyes. Or using a word like “troglodyte.”
Incidentally, Tom, be happy Obama isn’t an “old school Marxist.” If he were, you’d already be dead from…errrm…lead poisoning.
Please GOP, I beg you! Please bring back your entire cast of characters for commentary this election season. In addition to Delay, I’d love to hear from Duke Cunningham, Mark Foley, Bob Allen, Larry Craig, David Vitter, Alberto Gonzalez, Donald Rumsfeld, Dennis Hastert, Ted Stevens, George Tenent, Paul Wolfowitz, George Allen, Dick Cheney and ol’ Bubba Bush. We desperately need to be reminded about your distinguished contribution to our country over the past 8 years before going into the voting booth in November. When you have assholes like that criticizing you, you know you’re on the right track.
obfuscator: That’s my thought about it too…it’s just funny how at first the person who calls in seems normal and then as soon as the word Marxist comes out, you know they are reading from the talking points. The right-wingers are getting worse and worse at disguising these talking points…first the “this isn’ the scott mcclellan we knew” mantra and now this.
Where have I seen this shi(r)t before?
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/0/h/delay_mug_nolte.jpg
norbziness: To refer to DeLay as a “Douchebag” is unfair. I’m very entertained by douchbags. They make me laugh. For years, whenever I thing of Tom DeLay I think of this scene and I want to do to him what Tommy Lee Jones does to this guy. (Wait for it. It comes in at the 1:48 mark.)
Let me try again:
two more tries:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WEwADbas7L0
nyhfrog: Don’t forget, at least a douchebag serves a function.
Whenever I think of Tom Delay the “ist” word that comes immediately to mind start with ‘f’.
…where’s that review butt’n?
JSDC007: Wasn’t he Hopey? I’m pretty sure I saw him singing “Hooray for Captian Spaulding”
Doglessliberal: They think Marxism has something to do with the Marx Brothers. Oh, wait Marx humor is too intellectual for that bunch. Sorry.
speaking of caning congress people….. (or x-congresspeople)
Grandpa: My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star.
He learned that F-U grin from Rush.