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I'm a big fan of the American Prospect. They offer great ideas, both on policy and politics, and the writing is superb (Their Blog link is over on the right). I came across this today from their Executive Editor Michael Tomasky:

On successive days in mid-November 2002, Tom DeLay was elected House majority leader, replacing the retired Dick Armey, and Nancy Pelosi was chosen as the House Democrats’ leader, succeeding Dick Gephardt. One of those had amassed a capable but relatively quiet record of service in the House of Representatives, stirring controversy only once (by supporting the primary opponent of a longtime congressional incumbent from Michigan). The other had called the Environmental Protection Agency “the Gestapo of government”; had denounced the Nobel Chemistry Prize, after it was given to the discoverers of the link between chlorofluorocarbons and ozone depletion, as the “Nobel Appeasement Prize”; had called CNN the “Communist News Network”; had linked the Columbine High School shootings to birth control and day care; had avoided military service during the height of the Vietnam War in 1969 (reportedly explaining, in 1988, that so many minority youths were going after those well-paying military gigs that there was no room for good folk like himself); had led a fanatical crusade to force votes on articles of impeachment against a president with an approval rating above 70 percent; and had been rebuked (privately) by the House Ethics Committee for attacking a business trade group for daring to hire a former Democratic congressman as its president.

And guess which choice the media said was a calamity?

I encourage you to take a few minutes and read the rest of this incredible piece. I've had my eye on the Hammer's dealings for quite some time now, and I've been baffled and amazed at how most Americans, until lately, have had no idea just how bought and empty this man is. If he has his way, and he has for a long time, he will destroy American democracy as we know it.

Bonus: If you give a damn about the environment, via TPM, check out "Tom's Tainted Ten."

posted by FuzzFinger @ 4/21/2005 08:23:00 PM