Bury Me Broken

DeLay's response was filled with irony

House Majority leader Tom DeLay responded to a quip on NBC's Law and Order in which a character said concerning the killing of two federal judges that maybe we should look for someone with a Tom DeLay t-shirt:

This manipulation of my name and trivialization of the sensitive issue of judicial security represents a reckless disregard for the suffering initiated by recent tragedies and a great disservice to public discourse.

He actually had the guts to talk about judicial security after getting up in the sacred hall of the House and uttering these words:

The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior.

Let me get this straight. You will stand up before Congress and say that a judge will pay and yet you want to talk about judicial security based on a quip on a TV show.

The 'this' he was referring to was the judges and their rulings that allowed Terri Schiavo's feeding tube to be removed and stay removed even after Congress in an unprecedented final hour attempt pushed through a bill that the president signed to have the case go to federal court. The Supreme Court refused to hear it for a sixth and final time.

So for him to stand up and wax on about judicial security when he was the one that showed reckless disregard with his statement about judges in the first place is irony, sad and deep.

posted by niteskolar @ 1:50 PM