Bring Us the Head of Tom DeLay
1. "With your help, the DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) will put an end to Tom DeLay's House of Scandal . . . once and for all."
2. "the only thing that’s important is to build a vague impression of staggering momentum: DeLay has to go."
3. "But if criticizing DeLay used to be suicidal, recently it's become fashionable."
4. "We're looking for a slogan -- something short, something memorable, and something that lets the people of his district know that it's time for him to go. "
5. "Hyperbole, no stranger on Capitol Hill, is a key weapon in a fight tightly coordinated by party leaders."
6. ""I think a lot of members think he's taking arrows for all of us," Rep. Roy Blunt, third-ranking among GOP leaders, told The Associated Press."
7. "The Democrats have taken to charging that the House is being distracted from its policy work because of the DeLay controversy of their making. This amounts to saying: "Stop us before we attack Tom DeLay again!"
8. "The history of Tom DeLay in Congress is that he's pushed every envelope. It is often the case that powerful people get their comeuppance because of something that a lot of people would see as a technicality."
9. "He is so repellent . . . self-righteous, humorless, resentful, scowling, perpetually angry"
10. "The very fact that the Mainstream Media are so desperately struggling to smear Tom DeLay is proof positive of what a good job he is doing at leveling the electoral playing field."