DeLay Sets The Record Straight

From The New Yorker:

Earlier this year, [Tom DeLay] published a memoir called “No Retreat, No Surrender” * * * in which he claimed that as a young congressman he would on occasion drink ten to twelve Martinis at a time. In this period, he earned the nickname Hot Tub Tom. Then he found Jesus and, he said, stopped sinning. In the book, he freely confesses to committing adultery. “I had put my needs first,” he told me. “I was on the throne, not God. I had pushed God from His throne.”

In the book, DeLay criticizes Gingrich for, among other things, conducting an affair with a Capitol Hill employee during the 1998 impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. (The woman later became Gingrich’s third wife.) “Yes, I don’t think that Newt could set a high moral standard, a high moral tone, during that moment,” DeLay said. “You can’t do that if you’re keeping secrets about your own adulterous affairs.” He added that the impeachment trial was another of his “proudest moments.” The difference between his own adultery and Gingrich’s, he said, “is that I was no longer committing adultery by that time, the impeachment trial. There’s a big difference.” He added, “Also, I had returned to Christ and repented my sins by that time.”

DeLay also added that "[t]he Schiavo case was one of my proudest moments in Congress."

You know, it is easy to laugh off DeLay and all the other extremist kooks who are just like him, but these are the kind of people who come out in droves for the GOP primaries. It should be a fun election season.

And speaking of right wing extremists, Bush now has a 28% approval rating:

In an April poll, Harris found that President Bush's popularity had sunk to the lowest level of his presidency, with 28% of U.S. adults giving his job performance positive ratings and 70% rating him negatively.

Can it go any lower? Probably.