Do you really think this photo is anti-American?
 

OTOH, it was a slow day yesterday.

I guess I should adjust off my sarcasm meter.

Do you really think this photo is anti-American?
 

My point was there was no random distribution in the 20 photos, so I guess it was the other parts.

What morality crap?

If you want friends, you should be friendly!

Your party, of which you are a card-carrying member, has been kind of pushing hard on legislating morality. Your blinders may not be letting that through. That's OK, I'm sure you are happier with them on. Pity they aren't a little tighter, and a few inches lower down.

True - but his wife? Check out what she does - "Mrs. DeLay provides big picture, long-term strategic guidance and helps with personnel decisions."* And her monthly paycheck is higher than the daughter's.

* I get that from my spouse for free - and often I don't even have to ask.

I think Burger was saying yesterday that they've haven't been legislating much of anything. Unless you were referring to bankruptcy reform?

Oh SHUT IT. You know what I mean. Or are you and club best friends now? ETA bankruptcy reform fits the bill for me. Payola to the cc companies.

Pananda, they only cited a couple of months of payments. Whatever. I'm just saying, at least on the daughter's side, it's quite possibly legit and this is far less heinous than other crap DeLay pulls. But you go ahead and think this is going to be the last nail in the coffin. I'm trying to protect you from the inevitable disappointment.

I really would rather it wasn't the last nail in the coffin. I think that there are larger points to be made about DeLay and the GOP that will be lost if he steps down soon:

• DeLay's potentially illegal dealings with lobbyists are just coextensive with much more widespread brands of behavior that, while often perfectly legal, are no more morally praiseworthy. The issue here is the rise of a Republican Party that in its House, Senate, and White House incarnations is wholly a prisoner of corporate interests and has abandoned any pretense of ideological principle in an effort to put policy up for sale to the highest bidder. The big game here is hundreds of billions in corporate subsidies masquerading as Medicare reform; massive tax cuts; and the failure to properly enforce labor, environmental, tax, and consumer-protection laws. The real payoffs aren't junkets but the hundreds of millions of dollars that finance the entire conservative institutional apparatus.

While I'm as attuned as the next guy to the frisson of excitement and shudders of pleasure around here that come every time we get another illicit glimpse of DeLay's tawdry dealings, you don't want some things to come to a delightful climax too soon.

Remember, Ty's the guy who loses bets on who would win elections. ty thinking Delay is toast may be the most comforting news Delay's staff has heard all year.

Panda seems to think he's toast. God you are stupid.

For the record, I was 1-1 on Election Day bets (both on this board).

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listen cowfuck, I don't know what chemicals in your brain changed that you start attacking me like this, but I have feelings and you hurt them routinely. I would rather you put me on ignore if you cannot communicate in a manner consistant with civilized discourse.

It amuses me. You should feel free to put me on ignore though, pookie.