DeLay, DeGuerin, DeGuilty!
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Guilty, guilty, guilty.
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Hot Tub Tom is now a convicted felon.
You could not blow the grin off my face with dynamite.
Ronnie Earle and Friend
Since 1985 I have been trying to tell you people that Tom’s a crook. I would personally like to thank Ronnie Earle, Texas’ DA, and the fine folks of the Travis County DA’s office for not backing down. Ronnie Earle would fight a rattlesnake with one arm tied behind his back and give the snake three bites head start. And he’s so honest that you could shoot dice with him over the phone.
I imagine that the words “I will destroy you,” have suddenly disappeared from Tom DeLay’s daily vocabulary. I honestly don’t know if they sell Viagra for hammers.
The judge is in charge of the sentencing. I do not want to see Tom go to jail, but watching him do some community service around the courthouse would be very cool. Cleaning the bird poop off Stephen F. Austin’s head would be kinda appropriate. We could bring lawn chairs and finally get to see our congressman do some work for us.
Thelma wants to see him in an orange jumpsuit, chained to a guy named Brute who got busted for a building a meth lab, picking up trash with a pointy stick along the side of the highway.
I do think the work should be physical labor. He needs to learn that if we make a mess, we have to clean it up. It just seems like the right thing to do.
Or, in the alternative, he could carry my golf clubs for 18 holes. Just saying ….
I’m doing pretty good, Tom. How ’bout you, Honey?
Bubba reminded me that I had this picture, too —-
There is a God.
1Cue the Edwin Hawkins Singers: Oh Happy Day!
2Just heard this on my local news and hadda come here to hear what Juanita had to say. Ronnie Earle and “friend” indeed.
Personally, I would like to see his butt in the hoosegow for a significant period of time. Convicted is such a beautiful word.
3TWO guilty verdicts. YES! A little prison time would be hard to erase from the public mind and would keep him from messing with the body politic for a while.
4oh ho ho…it’s gonna be a Merry little Holiday now. Who would have think that Mr. Dancing with the Stars DeLay would possibly be wearing jailhouse orange! My, oh, my!!
5Hot diggity! Perhaps we won’t be treated to that jackass eatin’ cuckle burs grin now. Hope they toss the book at him.
6Happy Thanksgiving, Hammer.
7Justice has returned to Texas. Judge Roy Bean might not have hanged the S.O.B. but it is certainly a reason to be giving thanks on Thanksgiving. Restores a little of my lost faith in truth, justice, and the American way.
8This is something extra special to be thankful for tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that …
I would like to see him spend some time in the big house where he can be someone’s BFF, then do community cleanup so we call all laugh at hisownsorryself.
Happy day, indeed!
9i hope the misrable little scumbag gets life without parole,in TDC, wheren he,ll learn how to dance from Bubba.
10Sadly, the GOP controlled Criminal Court of Appeals will agree with Hot Tub Tom’s Writ Twit appeal that the law specifically, and only, applies to “cash” money laundering.
Since Tom’s money laundering involved a check, the conviction will be overturned.
Republican justice will prevail.
Remember, you read it here first…
11Happy, Happy Thanksgiving!!!
12Well, if they actually rule that way at least that idiotic interpretation will get lots of publicity.
I’ve frightened all my pets with my scream of joy. Then I ran out into the driveway and did a happy dance!
13I never thought we’d see this day. Thanks for fighting this good fight so many years. Keep swingin’ he ain’t done yet.
14I am so glad I am far away from the check out lanes at the grocdery and drug stores in Ft. Bend because I did not plan to die this early…which would be certain if I were there and caught in the crush of all the good. loyal and long suffering Dems putting a mad rush on their DEPENDS. It’s been a long time friends….and especially Juanita, God what was it 1978 that he came in from his bug spray? You told everybody…yes you did and its time for you to celebrate…and use as many of those damn DEPENDs AS YOU NEED AS YOU CHUCKLE THIS SUCKER RIGHT INTO THE BIG HOUSE.
15congratulations to youm Susan and all your friends in Travis County! you must be soooo proud……..happy Thanksgiving!
16do convicted felons in Texas lose their right to vote?
THANK YOU, JESUS, AND I AM AN ATHEIST!
17That appeal isn’t gonna be free. Dick DeGuerin isn’t about to extend Christmas charity to ol’ Tom. Meanwhile, we can remember that the State of Texas has no Country Club prisons. We have tolerable to awful prisons in Texas.
18I can’t decide if it’s a miracle or a sign that Armageddon’s around the corner, I’m so awestruck. What a fine day it is
19A little music for the occasion from Ren and Stimpy.
20http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H84gkp5GEAM&feature=related
Hot dang! I am stunned and it’s going to make for a super-good Thanksgiving.
21“It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.”
-Plato
22Heard the news on my car radio (KUT, natch!). Thank goodness I was at a full stop!
23Regardless of what happens on appeal, nothing will change the fact that 12 Texans said that what happened was a felony. It’s like Ken Lay having his conviction vacated after his incredibly timely death — everyone remembers that he was guilty not that a technicality came along and let his wife/widow keep some of his ill-gotten gains.
24A long time ago we discussed watching old Tom sink in the swamp and eating fried chicken and mashed potatoes after the bubbles stopped rising.
Well I’m smoking a turkey tomorrow so that will have to do.
Happy Thanksgiving, Ms Susan. Enjoy the day, and as we say in this part of the South…”Y’all come!”
25The accolades belong to Susan for her fine reporting job. The periodic updates and analysis was excellent.
26Hey Tom – Happy Turkey day – cha cha cha!!!
27The rumors are flying that Gov. Goodhair is waiting with bated breath to pardon Tommy Hot Tub. If the convictions are on state charges, he could, right? If so, how do we stop him from doing it?
28I want to be riding down Hwy 90, and see his wrinkly un-Botoxed face staring out the prison bus window as I pass it. (I would wave.) I want him to have to dye his hair with a solution made of pigeon poop that he collects in the exercise yard. I want his DWTS videos to be playing in the day room 24/7 where his cell buddies can admire his costumes. I want him to have to save his hourly pay of 35 cents earned in the prison laundry in order to buy lifesavers at the commissary. I want him to get his prison tat with a an old dirty pen. AND I want all of his Rethug friends to deny that they know him three times before the cock crows!
29He still ought to be indicted for “bad dancing on national TV” and “wearing really red slacks off the golf course” for that performance on Dancing With The Stars!
30Worthwhile piece on alla this by Nat Wilson Turner at The Agonist:
http://agonist.org/nat_wilson_turner/20101124/tom_delay_convicted_by_texas_jury_thank_you_ronnie_earle
31Gramian – in Texas, the Governor can only pardon with a recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Parole. I would bet that Gov. Goodhair stays as far away from this mess as he can. He may be stoopid, but he ain’t crazy.
32One more thing – before it goes to his buddies on the Texas Court of Appeals, it has to go through a three judge panel on the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin. The are not all Republicans.
33DeLay is a Republican crook, but I repeat myself.
34^ Specially since that fool thinks his reelection will give him a one-way ticket to the Rethug Presidential nomination. Can you see him going mano-a-mano with Ms. Palin?
35Um, I was referring to what Juanita said. Sam Davis and I must be on the same wavelength.
36WHAT DO YOU MEAN….you do not want to see him go to jail. YES YOU DO!!!!! What’s the good of being found guilty if he doesn’t go to jail?! Let’s make an example of him to all of his kind. The looks on his and Deguerin’s faces on the newscast after the guilty verdict was priceless!!!!!
37I’m with Thelma on this one.
38So, I was taking a break from the gaming tables here in Vegas to check the news. When I saw old Tom was convicted and could get 99+ years, ya would of thought I hit triple 7s with a 100x bonus and it rained diamonds from the sky. I could hardly wait to find a computer to check in at the beauty shop.
I only wish his punishment would include having to work in the sweatshops of the Northern Marianas and face those he refused to help when he had the chance.
Kudos to Ronnie Earle, the judge and jury. They just taught Tom that karma really is a b*itch!
39I woke up this morning and came back to check, just in case I had daydreamed the whole thing. So happy to find it’s still real!
40Justice! Now the hammer can make big rocks into little ones. No country club for Hot Tub Tom!
41From an article by John Nichols of the Nation:
Tom DeLay always claimed to be a man of convictions. Now, that claim is beyond debate. He is a man of convictions — two of them.
42This one’s Gonna Hurt Him, A Long ,Long Time!
Happy Thanksgiving all!
43Happy Thanksgiving! I knew I had to stop by Juanita’s when I heard the news!
44Guess the Hammer will be breaking some rocks!
Tom DeLay won’t be going to jail. He did exactly what White Texas assigned him to do – he held off an Hispanic majority in the Legislature for 8 or 10 years. The Big Boys might not have been able to save DeLay from Ronnie Earle but they will never let him serve time.
OTOH, it would be fun to see Tommie enjoy the amenities of the prison system that he worked so hard to cut.
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