Mullah DeLay

Nation journalist Max Blumenthal took his camera to the Christians United for Israel's annual Washington-Israel Summit in D.C.

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Blumenthal opens [his] video by interviewing Tom Delay, who when asked how much the "Second Coming" plays into his support for Israel, says, "obviously, it's what I live for, I hope it comes tomorrow."

Delay closed by saying, "we have to be connected to Israel to enjoy the second coming."

  Raw Story

You may remember that in another recent Blumenthal video Crusader DeLay told College Republicans that we could negate the need for immigrant workers by outlawing abortion.

But DeLay wasn't the only esteemed guest at this Christians United meeting.

[Pastor John] Hagee stressed the need for a preemptive military attack on Iran to "prevent a nuclear holocaust" as he introduced Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to thunderous applause from the crowd. Lieberman compared Hagee to Moses and pointed out a visiting Rick Santorum as a "worker for what is good in our society."

Video here.

College Republicans

They're everything you've come to believe. Via Talking Points Memo, check out this YouTube video by Max Blumenthal, taping at a College Republicans convention. Tom DeLay tells them that if we had those 30 million aborted fetuses, we wouldn't need immigrant labor. And that's not even the best part of this video: Generation Chickenhawk.

(Now you know why they're against abortion. It robs them of an underclass for the low wage service jobs - and military).

Justice DeLayed

People tend to think of this story as the DeLay crew finally getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar. And some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him. But there's another part to this story that will be important to keep an eye on.

There are many theories about who's leaking on who in generating all these revelations about Abramoff and his associates. But it's clear that a big factor in all of this -- a big factor in generating a lot of these stories -- is a division between different groups of ex-DeLay aides -- particularly, the one surrounding Abramoff (the one that has everyone rushing for the exits, if they can find an open door) and that around Ed Buckham.

I hear Abramoff has already tried to do that, and been rebuffed. And this gets us into questions I think we'll be talking about a lot.

Why would he be rebuffed?

Decisions like that go right to the top. And since Abramoff's shenanigans are closely tied -- to be generous -- not just to members of Congress (DeLay, Ney, Burns, et al.) but to key GOP power players (Norquist, Reed, et al.) and quite probably Karl Rove himself, you can see why he (i.e., Abramoff) might have a harder time than your usual perp cutting a deal to implicate those above him.

That DC grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

For those of you trying to come up to speed on the DeLay/Abramoff story, here's our quick run-down on six of the top cronies in the mix.

Those bits are from Josh Marshall, where you can keep up with all the twists and turns (and twits) involved in the slimey world of Tom DeLay, coming unhinged.

Note on Abramoff's indictment.

DeLay still not behind bars

And still dealing dirty.

Tom DeLay thinks the federal treasury is his personal piggy bank. DeLay slipped “a $1.5 billion giveaway to the oil industry, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas” into the energy bill.

But this isn’t a normal case of government pork. DeLay has completely dispensed with the democratic process. From a letter Rep. Henry Waxman just sent Speaker Dennis Hastert:

The provision was inserted into the energy legislation after the conference was closed, so members of the conference committee had no opportunity to consider or reject this measure.

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The subtitle appears to steer the administration of 75% of the $1.5 billion fund to a private consortium located in the district of Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Ordinarily, a large fund like this would be administered directly by the government.

Hastert and DeLay need to explain themselves immediately. No member of Congress who takes taxpayer dollars seriously should vote for the energy bill until this matter is resolved.

  Think Progress post