Oh Tom DeLay: You Haven’t Been Praying Right
Every time something goes in Tom DeLay’s favor, he jumps up, waves his Bible around and says that Jesus loves him real special.
Maybe not so much.
It seems that all those secret DOJ files when Tom DeLay was being investigated are now open to public inspection. I, for one, kept wondering why every single one of his friends got indicted but Tom never did. Now we get to find out why.
The DOJ said the public did not have a right to see the files because Tom DeLay’s “privacy interests.” Yeah, that’s some caca del toro.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had failed entirely to justify withholding documents from its closed investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX).
A special thanks should go to CREW, the watchdogs that keep fighting.
Now this does not mean that we get to see the files tomorrow. It goes back to district court where the Department of Justice gets to explain why Tom DeLay, public official, has a “privacy interest.” Honey, he didn’t seem too concerned about privacy when he shook his butt on Dancing With the Stars, or now that he’s showing his butt on Fox News. How come what he did on our payroll gets to be private.
“… the D.C. Circuit said in this latest opinion, “prominent and influential public officials are subjected to the same investigative scrutiny and prosecutorial zeal as local aldermen and little-known lobbyists.”
No shoot, Sherlock.
Thanks to Alfredo at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
Tom might be sweating over how his “friends” are going to feel when they read these files and realize who he gave up when he was sitting under the bare bulb in the back of the police station, eh? He looks like the kind of guy who would have folded like a cheap suit. Why can’t Hollywood make a movie depicting THIS?
1The twin sisters Karma and Hubris are taking up their knives.
2And now the dancing REALLY begins.
3I do hope we get to find out what he was doing in that there hot tub all those years.
4Well, for one thing he WASN’T reading the bills that came across his desk in Austin. He said so.
5I’ve always wanted to see the words “convicted felon” in the first line of his obituary.
That’s probably not going to happen. Oh well.
6Considering what I saw him do while he was on the Hill, his files should make for a fabulously steamy and screwy TV show, most likely on an X-rated adult channel. I think he wants the money he would get for a release of those files to TV and Hollywood screenwriters more than he fears what would happen to him if his ex-friends ever found out what he did to them under a bright white and hot light.
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