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04/11/2005: "SherWright.com’s Fair and Balanced Praise for DeLay"

Readers of this journal have grounds to believe that SherWright.com’s position on DeLay’s continued leadership role as House Majority Leader is that it’s inappropriate. Upon reflection, though, we should all admit that his role is totally appropriate. While DeLay is hardly a poster boy for ethics, one must recognize that he is an absolute paragon of Truth in Advertising. Remember Bush’s campaign mantra that “what you see is what you get?” DeLay makes Bush look like two-faced Janus! With DeLay as a “Face of the GOP,” you know that what you see in his individual behavior is what you actually get from the GOP at large. In fact, if there is announcement that DeLay is stepping down, crusading District Attorney Eliot Spitzer should immediately issue an injunction until it’s clear that his replacement offers no less a compelling example of what the party stands for! And who could replace DeLay as the literal incarnation of modern Republican Values, a Four-Letter Word made Flesh? Everything about Tom is totally consistent with the right wing view of the world and the Bush Administration’s approach to governance. All that’s missing is the creamy veneer of Compassionate Conservatism, and we all know that’s just eyewash. Tom is the Real Deal, out there for all to see! Pick a characteristic, any characteristic, and see how closely it maps to Republican attitudes and practices at large. Take the “conservative” GOP’s willingness to dump established tradition at the drop of a hat. Tom is right out front, like when he toppled the tradition of scheduling the divisive and disruptive process of reapportioning congressional seats no more frequently than once a decade. In the process he was censured for his inappropriate use of federal resources in a state matter. That’s just one example of another characteristic of the Modern GOP – its willingness to dump cherished Republican notions like states’ rights when expediency demands. Look at DeLay’s leadership in attempting to override the Florida Legislature (and courts) in the Schiavo matter. DeLay’s hypocrisy is perfectly in step with his Party’s. Even DeLay’s religious convictions are on pitch with GOP mainstream extremism. He holds that the End Times are upon us, so shepherding our nation’s fiscal and environmental resources is unnecessary and even foolish. Far better to go after the wealth and power to be gained by sucking out their value in the torrent that his over-the-top means can achieve. In short, Tom DeLay is the personification of what the GOP has become – a vast engine of greed and lust for power.