Letter of the Day

What an odd headline, “DeLay Resigns House Seat on His Own Terms,” April 5. What exactly were his terms? Tom DeLay resigned in the middle of multiple criminal investigations, ethics scandals in his office, an indictment, loss of his leadership position in the House and an almost certain embarrassing defeat in the fall.

Were his terms staying around long enough to crush three fellow Republicans in the Texas primary, and now on his resignation tour crying how much he loves the Republican Party?

DeLay whines about his dissatisfaction with “just” being a congressman. It reminds me of the time he was told to put out his cigar in a federal-building restaurant. When they explained it was against the law of the federal government, DeLay boomed out, “I am the federal government.”
Not anymore.
— Mike Burgher, Urbandale.

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