{"id":3089,"date":"2013-11-03T22:10:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T05:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2013-11-03T22:10:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T05:10:21","slug":"delay-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3089","title":{"rendered":"DeLay Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s baaaaaaacck&#8230;. That&#8217;s right everyone. Everybody&#8217;s favorite money launderer, Tom &#8216;The Hammer&#8217; DeLay is back after his conviction was overturned (by a Texas judge of course). <a title=\"Tom DeLay: I\u2019m back and I\u2019m on a mission from God\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/10\/29\/tom-delay-im-back-and-im-on-a-mission-from-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">He is now on a &#8216;mission from God&#8217; and aims to lead a &#8216;constitutional revival&#8217; behind the scenes.<\/a> Great! Another wacko Texan who &#8216;speaks to God&#8217;. Please Texas, secede from the USA. Please!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our April 10, 2006 issue when &#8216;The Hammer&#8217; announced he wouldn&#8217;t seek re-election because of the money laundering charges.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3091\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3091\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3091\" title=\"delaylaundering\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/delaylaundering.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/delaylaundering.jpg 364w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/delaylaundering-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 85vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Congressman Tom &#39;The Hammer&#39; DeLay announced this past week he will not seek re-election and turn his attention to laundering clothes instead of money.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s baaaaaaacck&#8230;. That&#8217;s right everyone. Everybody&#8217;s favorite money launderer, Tom &#8216;The Hammer&#8217; DeLay is back after his conviction was overturned (by a Texas judge of course). He is now on a &#8216;mission from God&#8217; and aims to lead a &#8216;constitutional revival&#8217; behind the scenes. Great! Another wacko Texan who &#8216;speaks to God&#8217;. Please Texas, secede &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3089\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DeLay Tactics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,68,3,198],"tags":[252,69,22,20,389,27,804,70,9,802,21,98,596,803,188,19,47,48,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}