[Mb-civic] mind numbing quotes from Tom Delay; Bush not the only idiot in office

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>
> 10 Mind-Numbing Quotes by Tom DeLay:
> 1) "So many minority youths had volunteered that there was literally
> no room for patriotic folks like myself."Tom DeLay, explaining at the
> 1988 GOP convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle
> did not fight in the Vietnam War
>
> 2) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" Tom Delay, to
> three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in
> Houston, Sept. 9, 2005
>
> 3) "I AM the federal government." Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth's
> Chris Steak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of
> federal government regulations banning smoking in the building, May
> 14, 2003
>
> 4) "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power." Tom
> DeLay, explaining why America must topple Saddam Hussein in 2002
> interview with Fox News
>
> 5) "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting
> taxes." Tom DeLay, March 12, 2003
>
> 6) "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The
> causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into
> daycare the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers
> who take birth control pills." Tom DeLay, on causes of the Columbine
> High School massacre, 1999
>
> 7) "A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide
> structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can't provide
> stability, I'm not saying that... It does take a father, though." Tom
> DeLay, in a radio interview, Feb. 10, 2004
>
> 8) "I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I
> think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that
> there will not be a government church." Tom DeLay
>
> 9) "Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on
> $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist.
> Fortunately, such families do not exist." Tom DeLay, during a debate
> in Congress on increasing the minimum wage, April 23, 1996
>
> 10) "I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My
> job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government
> employee. I am in the Constitution." Tom DeLay, in a CNN interview,
> Dec. 19, 1995

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