"Why not?"
"Because this is the private sector Mr. DeLay. It's illegal to ask political affiliation and even more illegal to use that affiliation as criteria for hiring."
"f*ck the law," Delay snapped back. "I don't give a rat's ass about the law."
I remember that conversation vividly and kept notes on the meeting to report back to Stephen Driesler, my boss and chief lobbyist for the Realtors.
"Yeah, that's Tom DeLay all right," Driesler said. "You'd better be careful about pissing him off. He's one of (future speaker of the house) Newt Gingrich's shining stars and will be a powerhouse if the Republicans ever gain control of the House. And he doesn't mind cutting a few corners."
Tom DeLay became a powerhouse, an arrogant bully who would later use his post as Majority Leader of the Republican-controlled Congress to hammer other GOP members into submission. But DeLay's loss of power is one of the more watched and applauded falls from grace in the growing scandals that wash over Washington like a sea of sewage.
Gingrich, who gave up the Speaker's job and left Congress after getting caught screwing a young Agriculture Committee staffer, may have put it best about when he said this about the Republicans he brought to town: "They came to do good and stayed to do well."
In the end, Washington has a way of biting the powerful in the ass.
Tom DeLay thought he could screw the law but, in the end, it's the law he so easily ignored that is giving him an old-fashioned screwing he so richly deserves.
Originally published and Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill Blue
Who is this Thompson guy anyway?
"Because this is the private sector Mr. DeLay. It's illegal to ask political affiliation and even more illegal to use that affiliation as criteria for hiring."
"f*ck the law," Delay snapped back. "I don't give a rat's ass about the law."
I remember that conversation vividly and kept notes on the meeting to report back to Stephen Driesler, my boss and chief lobbyist for the Realtors.
Tom DeLay became a powerhouse, an arrogant bully who would later use his post as Majority Leader of the Republican-controlled Congress to hammer other GOP members into submission. But DeLay's loss of power is one of the more watched and applauded falls from grace in the growing scandals that wash over Washington like a sea of sewage.
Gingrich, who gave up the Speaker's job and left Congress after getting caught screwing a young Agriculture Committee staffer, may have put it best about when he said this about the Republicans he brought to town: "They came to do good and stayed to do well."
In the end, Washington has a way of biting the powerful in the ass.
Tom DeLay thought he could screw the law but, in the end, it's the law he so easily ignored that is giving him an old-fashioned screwing he so richly deserves.
Originally published and Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill Blue
Who is this Thompson guy anyway?
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