{"id":9,"date":"2005-09-28T18:33:44","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T22:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-04-24T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T22:40:36","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"HEY! LOOK WHO JUST GOT INDICTED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One should never take pleasure at the misfortune of somebody else&#8230; Unless the somebody else is a horrible scoundrel of a person. In which case, I fully endorse throwing a fucking parade and declaring it a national holiday. And it is in that spirit that I take great pleasure at the misfortune of Tom DeLay.<\/p>\n<p>I know I have spoken before of how he is doing everything in his power to keep Saipan off the congressional radar to help save workers there living under slave conditions and often being forced to have abortions against their will (at least they are consistent with their stance on not allowing freedom of choice), but instead, I thought we would celebrate Tom&#8217;s fuck-ups with the Texas Grand Jury by enjoying some of his greatest hits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; As reported in the AP [1995 July 29]<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;I am the federal government.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; DeLay was responding to a government employee who tried to prevent him from smoking on government property. As reported in the New York Times [2003 June 13]<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour <\/em>[the minimum wage in 1996]<em> are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; From the Congressional Record, H3706 [1996 April 23]<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; From a speech made to bankers [3\/12\/03]<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;I have seen these liberal psychologists and sociologists talk about there is no need for the man in the family. The woman can&#8217;t take care of it. A woman can&#8217;t take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; From a radio interview. His wife, Christine DeLay quickly asked to &#8220;edit this out,&#8221; then turned to Tom and said: &#8220;This is not a good thing for you to be saying.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s never been proven that air toxics [sic] are hazardous to people.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; From the Houston Chronicle [10\/27\/90]<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;The judges need to be intimidated. They need to uphold the Constitution. (If they don&#8217;t behave) we&#8217;re going to go after them in a big way.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; From the Washington Post [9\/14\/97]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh Tom&#8230; So dreamy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now we just need to hold out for Rove, Abramoff, and Frist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One should never take pleasure at the misfortune of somebody else&#8230; Unless the somebody else is a horrible scoundrel of a person. In which case, I fully endorse throwing a fucking parade and declaring it a national holiday. And it is in that spirit that I take great pleasure at the misfortune of Tom DeLay. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaftwaxer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}