The Religious Right has no sense of humor...

Laura Bush was a huge hit at the Press Club a few weeks ago, telling anecdotes about her husband and talking about differences between Andover and Yale and raching in Texas. But no matter what she tries to do, the religous right of this land just simply have no sense of humor. Look at Texas's Second banana to the village idiot Tom DeLay. Last night on "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" the story was about two judges who were believed to be killed by vicious right-wing extremists (which of course would be ripped from the headlines, as usual, of the Chicago paper where Judge Lefkow's husband and mother were slaughtered by a supposed white-supremist group). Because of the lack of clues, one of the officers in the scene said "Maybe we should put out an APB (which means all-points bulletin) for somebody in a Tom Delay T-shirt."

Well, you may as well have said Tom DeLay's grandmother was a whore on Main Street and 57th for the uproar it caused. "This manipulation of my name and trivialization of the sensitive issue of judicial security represents a reckless disregard for the suffering initiated by recent tragedies and a great disservice to public discourse," Mr. DeLay was quoted as saying. He also talked about NBC's hit show using a brazen attempt to "slur" his good name.

Well, folks, he probably doesn't have to worry too much about THAT. His name has been dragged through the grime and mud so many times, it's a wonder he still comes out sparkling clean. Or has he? In a rather interesting turn of events, a committee for Tom DeLay was charged with breaking election laws. So, we guess, when the heat is on, Mr. DeLay, do you whine and cry to the press about not being a bad person?

Of COURSE you do! :-) That's just the way it is with the right-wing extremists. Need we remind him of the rather bold and chilling statement he made when poor Terri Schiavo's circus performance was finally at an end? "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." He has since then pulled back a bit from this comment, saying that his words were taken out of context. Funny, shouldn't NBC deserve the same priviledge?

But then, dear readers, we're talking about the ultimate hypocrite. While DeLay raised his hands to the Christian sheep and vowed to fight for Terri Schiavo's right to live, because God would see it through, he neglected to point out the cruelly similar fate of his father, whom he had decided to pull the plug on in the 90's. Ooops. Guess he forgot about that, huh? Well, we suppose he's entitled...

He is, after all, an exterminator by trade.

...TheScribes...