Maureen had DeLay's number early on...

i've been reading bushworld by maureen dowd, the nyt columnist... it's kind of tacky of her, in my opinion, to peddle a book of her past columns, particularly when it says "includes new material" on the cover when all that really means is more recent columns have been added to the printing run... ~sigh~ but i digress... i was struck by her column (archived abstract only) of june 20, 1999, written shortly after the columbine h.s. tragedy, in which she nails our boy delay on precisely the kind of crap he's been dishing out lately... some of what she has to say sounds eerily familiar...

After Columbine, the politicians in Congress assembled, worked up their nerve and pounded together some legislation to help stop horrific high school shootings.

Their solution: Take two tablets, slap them above every blackboard in American classrooms.
They could have gone with the obvious approach - do something to make it harder for teenagers and crazy people to get guns. But noooooo. [...]
So they went the craven (i.e., the usual) route, passing a measure to allow the Ten Commandments in classrooms.[...]

get ready, here it comes...

After linking Columbine to the culture of abortion and the teaching of evolution, Mr. [Tom] DeLay went to a rally of ministers waving bibles [...] and blamed separation of church and state for the tragedy. "All of this knee-jerk lawmaking is a waste of time," he said. [...]
Mr. DeLay has so debased the discourse that he included this charming anecdote as proof of the culture crisis. "I got an e-mail this morning that said it all. The student writes, Dear God: Why didn't you stop the shootings at Columbine? And God writes, Dear student: I would have, but I wasn't allowed in school."

pardon me while i go shower for the second time today...

Before they hang the Ten Commandments in the schools, they should make sure they are hanging where they are broken daily: Congress and the White House.

don't say we weren't warned...

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