I have to admit, I never pegged Tom for a swinger, but he’s definitely gotten around — Scotland, Moscow, Guam. A donor in every port, as they say. Too bad he didn’t use protection. Social diseases can be such a drag.
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October 6, 2005
WB: Party Animal
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I have not doubts that this is a just a tiny piece of what’s going in to the pockets of those bandits of yours.
…and everybody close to this administration is well aware of it. I only ask my self WHY HE is caught suddenly? Must be some conflict of interest between mafia bosses in USA administration.
“Every country has a mafia but this is a case where mafia has a country”…and not one…
Posted by: vbo | Oct 6 2005 6:17 utc | 1
billmon wrote: “I have to admit, I never pegged Tom for a swinger, but he’s definitely gotten around — Scotland, Moscow, Guam.”
Oh, you have to check out the past of “Hot Tub Tom”
After living part of his childhood in Venezuela due to his father’s work in the petroleum and natural gas industry, DeLay received a degree in biology from the University of Houston in 1970, though he had previously been expelled from Baylor University for drinking. There he gained a reputation as a playboy, earning the nickname “Hot Tub Tom”.
Maybe these parties with Abramoff et al will help lead to him being expelled from civil society to dwell with others likewise incarcerated.
It’s funny how many of these honcho republicans have a documented history of substance abuse.
Damn you, Billmon, now I can’t get the image of a bucknaked Tom DeLay out of my head, and it’s like finding you’re humming “Muskrat Love” to yourself and can’t stop. One minor point. The garment manufacturers DeLay services are in Saipan, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas. We don’t want to defame the fine people of Guam, which is a separate US territory. Saipan, by the way, has the best weather in the world (74 all the time), and you get liquid sugar with your iced tea. Of course, the Chinese garment workers working 16-hour days there don’t get out much …
Posted by: Aigin | Oct 6 2005 11:50 utc | 3
Somebody want to explain how that works in CNMI? There was a covenant to establish a commonwealth with the US. It’s a US territory with US citizens and under US courts. But somehow DeLay has made slave labor legal??? That’s the horror of Bush’s appointees. Roberts and Miers will continue to turn a blind eye to labor and enviromental laws for the big money.
Posted by: ~\/~ | Oct 6 2005 13:57 utc | 4
The CNMI concluded an agreement with the United States in the 1970s to become a Commonwealth. The agreement gives the CNMI the right to control its own immigration laws and minimum wages. The CNMI minimum wage is lower than the US minimum, though it’s still far higher than the wage in most developing countries. Otherwise US labor laws, including overtime laws, apply. Because it controls its own immigration, the CNMI allows in “guest workers,” mostly from China, but also from Bangla Desh and the Philippines, to work in the garment factories. The whole point was to produce garments that weren’t subject to US quotas with workers who made more than in China, but less than in the mainland US. Now that most of the quotas on textile imports have been removed, I’m not sure what is happening to the Saipan garment industry.
Posted by: Aigin | Oct 6 2005 14:07 utc | 5
DeLay received a degree in biology from the University of Houston in 1970, though he had previously been expelled from Baylor University for drinking. There he gained a reputation as a playboy, earning the nickname “Hot Tub Tom”.
You can take the boy out of Baylor, but you can’t take the Baylor out of the boy.
The garment manufacturers DeLay services are in Saipan, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas. We don’t want to defame the fine people of Guam, which is a separate US territory.
You’re right. I got this confused with ANOTHER scandal — the one where Abramoff got the acting U.S. Attorney on Guam fired.
Posted by: Billmon | Oct 6 2005 14:18 utc | 6
There’s a need to keep good records so we can save time when dealing with Roy Blunt. He is next, isn’t he?
Posted by: ken melvin | Oct 6 2005 14:52 utc | 7
How does one get expelled from college for drinking? Isn’t that what college teaches? Unless it was a simple underaged drinking, there HAS to be an embarassing story here. And I’m not above the politics of petty personal destruction.
Posted by: Rowan | Oct 6 2005 17:48 utc | 8
“It’s a US territory with US citizens and under US courts. But somehow DeLay has made slave labor legal?”
It’s an offshore experiment before they run it for real money in N. O. for the reconstruction.
As to Baylor, where is it? Perhaps it’s a Christian school in a dry county so the offense?
Keep in mind the words of the 1920s/1930s political consultant W C Fields, never trust a man who doesn’t drink.
Posted by: christofay | Oct 7 2005 8:24 utc | 9