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Tom DeLay - the next Pat Robertson?

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DeLay, who has long worn his conservative religious beliefs on his sleeve, (his understanding of ethics resides elsewhere), is now claiming that he resigned from Congress not because of indictments, a federal probe, or the possibility of losing an election, but because "God wanted him to" and that He has bigger plans for DeLay," plans that apparently involve reshaping the federal government to meet his fundamentalist Christian worldview. An op-ed in the Washington Times agrees DeLay is heading in this direction, noting that he "might be just the fellow to organize a genuine grass-roots conservative evangelical political movement with the clout to advance its issues within the GOP," whether the Republicans like it or not.
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