Where In The World Is Tom DeLay? (Hint: The Last Place He Should Be)

[JABBS]

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) was given a seat on the subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department, which is currently investigating an influence-peddling scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his dealings with lawmakers.

DeLay, it should be noted, has a long history with Abramoff, dating back to Abramoff's lobbying in the mid-1990s to stop legislation to improve labor laws on the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth in political union with the United States, but currently not subject to various U.S. laws, such as the minimum wage and use of child labor.

A decade ago, former Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-AK) wrote legislation that passed the Senate, but DeLay successfully prevented similar legislation from reaching the House floor.

"Allowing Tom DeLay to sit on a committee in charge of giving out money is like putting Michael Brown back in charge of FEMA Republicans in Congress just can't seem to resist standing by their man," said Bill Burton, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

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This item first appeared at JABBS.

[MADem]

1. Jeez, I thought you were gonna say golfing at St Andrews with Jackie A!

[YOY]

2. I was really hoping Siberia

In one of those Glavnoye Upravlenie LAGeri I hear are so fitting for one of his stature...

[peacetalksforall]

3. This is just another way of laughing at us, showing their disdain for us,

and slapping tha nation in our faces. They are vile.

[JABBS]

4. this should be

something that the dems go nuts over come November. Put this on every advertisement out there, to show how corrupt the GOP has become under DeLay/Frist's so-called leadership.