"GW Chimpzilla" <gw@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:TNuBf.722303$x96.214180@attbi_s72...

Chris Matthews has a hard-hitting interview coming up with Tom Delay.
During
last night's Hardball, there was a preview.

<http://streaming.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/2006/delay_modest.320.2
40.mov.html>

MATTHEWS: OK, I've got to ask you a cosmic question.

DELAY: OK

MATTHEWS: Tom DeLay, you are not in this buisness for the money. You live
modestly You commute back and forth from Washington to Houston, Texas.
Why?
What drives you every day?

DELAY: What I believe in. The constitution of the United States. Ronald
Reagan
got me involved in this. I fight every day for what I believe in. Strong
national security. Protecting the American family. Values. I just, I want
to
see this country led in a different direction than I found it when I got
into
politics 20 some years ago.

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Actual facts:

As Tom DeLay became a king of campaign fund-raising, he lived like one,
too. He
visited cliff-top Caribbean resorts, golf courses designed by PGA
champions and
four-star restaurants, all courtesy of donors who bankrolled his political
money empire.

Over the past six years, the former House majority leader and his
associates
have visited places of luxury most Americans have never seen, often
getting
there aboard corporate jets arranged by lobbyists and other special
interests.

Public documents reviewed by the Associated Press tell the story: At least
48
visits to golf clubs and resorts; 100 flights aboard company planes; 200
stays
at hotels, many world-class; and 500 meals at restaurants, some averaging
nearly $200 for a dinner for two.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1225delay-luxury25.html

Tom DeLay's vision of a "modest" lifestyle is one I'd like to experience.
Does he also have to commute in a 15 year old import truck like I do? So
all we have to do is become a Republican and the dollars start to roll in,
right?