Bushfinger

From a BuzzFlash e-newsletter:

Before Tom DeLay became the official Anti-Christ of the Republican Party (or maybe he shares the position with Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush), he was known as "Hot Tub Tom" when he served in the Texas legislature.

Actually, his partying ways never quite stopped. He took a junket of lobbyists to Las Vegas a few years back and smoked a fine cigar as his daughter (we are not making this up) soaked in a hot tub of champagne, as the lobbyists poured the bubbly in.

Oh, and did we remind you that he won't speak to his mother, and won't acknowledge one of his brothers? DeLay's mother told the Washington Post awhile back that she doesn't know why Tom has disowned her, but it breaks her heart.

Did we also tell you that DeLay, a former exterminator (whose business fell apart in a court house dispute with his partner), thinks that the toxic chemical Dioxin is GOOD for you?

We just had to empty out a few of our DeLay nuggets that we've stored up like chestnuts over the years. There are so many more, but so little time.

By the way his finest moment of pure hypocritical arrogance was perhaps when he was told to put out his cigar at a political function because of D.C. laws about smoking. He refused. The lowly American who had warned Satanic Tom reminded him that this was a government regulation and that he could not smoke inside the building. Taking a deep puff of smoke and blowing it back at the "peasant," Tom bellowed, "I am the government." Case closed, we guess.

The guy would make a good villain in a James Bond movie, wouldn't he. What'll we call him? Bushfinger?