Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: Tom Delay: Hypocrite? (NO!!!)

[quote name="Creexul :("][quote name="Zseni: Warrior-Poet"][quote name="Fussbett"]<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=618309" target="abc">http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=618309</a> [quote]DeLay had just been re-elected to his third term in Congress in 1988 when his father, Charles DeLay, was severely injured in an accident. As the elder DeLay's vital organs began failing, the family chose not to connect him to a dialysis machine or take other measures to prolong his life, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday, citing court documents, medical records and interviews with family members. "There was no point to even really talking about it," Maxine DeLay, the congressman's 81-year-old mother, told the Times. "Tom knew, we all knew, his father wouldn't have wanted to live that way."[/quote] I hope American Digest can squeeze out 5000 self-reflective words about how that was the right thing to do.[/quote] <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2115879/">A good write-up at Slate</a>, where I was vigorously depressing myself all morning. I also learned that Christopher Hitchens reads Caltrops, my posts specifically, and <i>summarizes them badly</i>. [/quote] Is that bad?[/quote]