Tom DeLay Blasts Newt Gingrich

(CBS/AP)  Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says Newt Gingrich was an ineffective leader who didn't even now how to run a meeting.

In a new book, DeLay also criticizes President Bush and former GOP House leaders Dennis Hastert and Dick Armey. DeLay's remarks were reported by syndicated political columnist Robert Novak.

DeLay was one of the new Republican House leaders who ushered in the Gingrich-inspired "Contract With America" in 1994. He complains that Gingrich's lack of leadership skills hampered GOP efforts to change the nation.

"He knew nothing about running meetings and nothing about driving an agenda," DeLay wrote. "Nearly every other day he had a new agenda, a new direction he wanted us to take. It was impossible to follow him."

DeLay also said the GOP leadership was in "no moral shape" to press impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, noting that then-House Speaker Gingrich was having an extra-martial affair with a staffer while the proceedings were under way.

Gingrich recently acknowledged the affair in an interview with a conservative Christian group. Some political observers said Gingrich wanted to publicly deal with the affair before possibly jumping into the race for the GOP presidential nomination.

DeLay relinquished his House leadership post and left Congress in 2006, following his indictment in Texas. Prosecutors accuse DeLay of violating state law by funneling $190,000 in illegal corporate money to the Republican National Committee, which then donated the same amount to Texas candidates. Under Texas law, corporate money can't be directly used for political campaigns.

DeLay denies the transaction was illegal.

In the book, "No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight," DeLay said of Mr. Bush: "He has expanded government to suit his purpose, especially in the area of education. He may be compassionate, but he is certainly no conservative in the classic sense."

Columnist Novak had this to say about the book: "DeLay was the most conservative congressional leader I have witnessed in 50 years covering Capitol Hill. I rate him with Lyndon B. Johnson as a dominant legislator. But his revelation that GOP leaders did not constitute a band of brothers helps explain why 12 years of control produced much less than was anticipated."

[us_infidel]

I notice a new book coming out about Bill's continued infidelity after leaving office (along with other sordid tales of this "happy domestic family"), but we see noting of it on CBS' website.

Yet, CBS publishes 3 days worth of a DeLay book slamming Gingrich and other republicans. Not that there's anything wrong with slamming Newt....I think he's a sleezeball. At least I try to be fair.

Nope....no bias at CBS that I can see.

[j0hnwi11iams]

Well LOOK who's gotten bItTeR. The filthy punk was in it up to his elbows. He should try blaming himself. He was trying to EXTERMINATE the democratic party.

[forthepeaple]

agree and the americans do have a american to protect them,and my name is david a belanger,vet and ready to protect all americans,and to take back AMERICA from the washington crime family.just look at what has happen in just a few days look this is your ssn money the pork went from 94 billion to now over 130,000,000,000,000 billion in a week that your money. gone and now all of them are saying wait i need some pork for me to...wake up america.. that why you need me in washington and we need more average americans to come down and change our government back to the government for the people by the people.vote for me david a belanger for president and lets clean house.at [e-mail] send me a line.until then god blass our troops and god blass america

[forthepeaple]

agree and the americans do have a american to protect them,and my name is david a belanger,vet and ready to protect all americans,and to take back AMERICA from the washington crime family.just look at what has happen in just a few days look this is your ssn money the pork went from 94 billion to now over 130,000,000,000,000 billion in a week that your money. gone and now all of them are saying wait i need some pork for me to...wake up america.. that why you need me in washington and we need more average americans to come down and change our government back to the government for the people by the people.vote for me david a belanger for president and lets clean house.at [e-mail] send me a line.until then god blass our troops and god blass america

[forthepeaple]

agree and the americans do have a american to protect them,and my name is david a belanger,vet and ready to protect all americans,and to take back AMERICA from the washington crime family.just look at what has happen in just a few days look this is your ssn money the pork went from 94 billion to now over 130,000,000,000,000 billion in a week that your money. gone and now all of them are saying wait i need some pork for me to...wake up america.. that why you need me in washington and we need more average americans to come down and change our government back to the government for the people by the people.vote for me david a belanger for president and lets clean house.at [e-mail] send me a line.until then god blass our troops and god blass america

[ixoye_02]

Yawn.....Why give any more time listening to the ranting of a disgraced and untrustworthy ex-lawmaker. You'd have to invest too much time figuring out what is truth and what is plainly DeLay's interpretation.

[plowhandle]

The Masonic nonsense these Hillrods bring up means nothing; DeLay is the embodiment, as is his Party, of EVIL. They spout one thing to get themselves elected, them turn turtle and do exactly whatever is expedient to their Masters' Plan - their Masters being the Captains of Industry, the Corporations.

Ronald Reagan started it - with the help of this lying piece of human excrement from Georgia (Gingrich) and Captain Kangaroo Suit Henry Hyde from Illinois, my former Congressman.

All three - nay, ALL Republicans, deserve the hottest places in Hell - right next to Richard Nixon's Coffee Bar.

[bildooreilly]

Problem is people don't look it up, and they have no knowledge of this stuff, so it seems I have to look it up for them. They've let these satanists that pretend to be "Christians" deceive them.

Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

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...did you just recently learn how to google? 'cause all you post is information anyone can look up themselves.

Posted by oleander8 at 03:42 PM : Mar 15, 2007
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[alphaa10-2009]

Postscript-- Those who want to heap dirt on the character of Tom Delay must credit him with passing this most difficult test of moral character in admitting his faults and those of his party.

For Democrats, the lesson is not to congratulate themselves on relative merit, but to redouble efforts at making sure they do not commit the same faults. None get a free pass in politics, and none should.

If political corruption were easy to resist and/or hide, we would not see that familiar, recurring story of rise and fall in Washington politics.

[alphaa10-2009]

By any standard, damnation is still faint praise. Finally, The Hammer, himself, admits what all those evil Democrats have been saying about him and the rest of the GOP establishment for years.

"DeLay also said the GOP leadership was in "no moral shape" to press impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, noting that then-House Speaker Gingrich was having an extra-martial affair with a staffer while the proceedings were under way. However, DeLay is not finished, charging the GOP with a failure of leadership."

Astonishingly, the GOP attempt to remove Clinton depended heavily on the single affair of Monica Lewinsky-- previous GOP fishing expeditions at taxpayer expense came up empty. More to the point, however, any attempt to tar and feather by the same brush used against Clinton could have rendered DeLay, Hastert, Gingrich and the rest unrecognizable.

To be sure, no Democrat was pleased by Clinton's affair, but most Americans-- Democrat or Republican-- can understand the difference between lying about a sexual affair, and a wholesale career of lies culminating in the biggest political fraud of all--Iraq and the regime of George Bush. And so it goes... in a Bush era marked by the foul, ever-present stench of corruption and greed, the shame of lies and demagoguery, and an incompetence rarely seen in history.