Crazy? Liar? Crazy Liar?

I have a friend, a former co-worker, who votes Republican all the way down the line, watches FOX News, pretty much drinks the GOP Kool Aid. Every time we try to talk politics, he gets this grin on his face like, "Oh, YOU..." Instead of talking about the war, the lying, etc., I once mentioned to him the skyrocketing deficit Bush has built up, even when you extract the costs of the wars. His response was, it's not Bush's fault, Congress passes those bills. (And of course, Bush signs them and recommends them in the first place.)

And that's an awfully weak excuse of an awfully weak president, but fine.

But this is a whole other thing. Tom DeLay, former exterminator, current deposed House Majority Leader and soon to be resident of a pound-me-in-the-ass kind of prison, spoke yesterday to a conservative group. When talking about the escalating deficits, he blamed the war and...the Democrats. I mean, it takes a special brand of balls to ignore the fact that Republicans control both houses of Congress, the White House and in most ways the Judiciary, and STILL blame the Democrats for...anything.

His money quote:

"We've been operating off a Congress designed by Democrats,"

Well, it's been 10 years since the Republicans took control and they've had plenty of time to fix whatever it was the Democrats broke. They haven't. Instead, thankfully, they are in the process of frittering away their political capital through indictments, sinking polls and the fact the public no longer can ignore that they have done an abhorrent job at pretty much everything.

By the way, DeLay's staffers also got caught referring to their base as "wackos" yesterday in a memo released in the Abramoff scandal. (Just one of the many, it's hard to keep up.) Here is that money quote:

"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them."

Gotta love those public servants.