Last week, Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay blasted Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Thursday for “betraying” the conservative movement.
At a luncheon on Capitol Hill, DeLay said McCain has no principles, and that a McCain triumph for the GOP nomination would destroy the Republican Party.
This is criticism Senator McCain should wear as a badge of honor. Tom DeLay is the most odious man to have occupied a prominent role in public life in my lifetime. He first broke into public consciousness as the Republican whip in the House, where he was admired for his take-no-prisoners approach to party discipline. Very soon, however, he evolved into a thoroughgoing bully who uses money and capricious, Scarface-like gestures to amass more and more and more power. When he became Majority Leader, he turned over his office to industry lobbyists to write legislation. He manipulated the legislative process to pack bills with choice pieces of pork and earmarks and industry pleasing amendments, tried to bribe a congressman to get his vote on a bill, and colluded with clothing manufacturers in the Marianas Islands, a U.S. protectorate, to create an industry that enjoyed American trade protection but that operated without American regulations, leaving the workers in virtual servitude. Before resigning under fire, DeLay subverted the public's business, undermined the rules of government, and perverted every idea of fairness in an effort to gain money and power. The question is not whether DeLay’s opposition will hurt McCain; the question is whether any decent person could stomach having his support.
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