Progressive Democrat Issue 79: BYE-BYE DeLay

Tom DeLay bid a bitter farewell to Congress this last week. Rather than taking the nominally honorable path of Randy Cunningham and taking responsibility for his own corruption, Tom DeLay took the “pass the buck” path of the Bush administration and blamed Liberals for his problems.

I mean, what ever happened to Republicans who had some honor and sense of personal responsibility? Have they been completely replaced with corrupt Halliburton Republicans?

Well, I say we need to replace corrupt Halliburton Republicans with good, solid Democrats. There is an excellent Democrat running to replace Tom DeLay. Running on the issues of protecting Social Security and improving education, Nick Lampson is running for the TX-22 Congressional seat. As far as I know, he does not have a primary challenger. If he does, I will give equal time to that challenger. But as far as I know, Lampson is our candidate to replace the sad, bitter and corrupt Tom DeLay.

I will note that Lampson seems to avoid taking a clear stand on what to do about Iraq right now, he is very vocal about criticizing Bush for misleading Congress into supporting the illegal and immoral war in Iraq:

I supported the President's request to authorize force in Iraq, and that was the right vote considering the information I was given. I have since found that the information I was given, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, was incorrect. We have learned since Congress voted to authorize force that our decision was based on faulty, outdated intelligence. When Congress is forced to make the difficult decision of whether to send our men and women in uniform into harm's way, it is critical that we have the most accurate intelligence available to make our decision. Whatever the reason Congress was given substandard intelligence, someone must be held accountable and we must look for ways to make sure it never happens again. Clear and honest intelligence is imperative for the defense of our nation and the men and women serving our country in uniform deserve that much.

Wow…the concept of holding government responsible! That is something Bush and DeLay seem to have no concept of.

Please GIVE TOM DELAY A GOOD-BYE PRESENT. Help turn TX-22 blue and REALLY make Tom DeLay sad and bitter against us liberals.