Tom DeLay Is A Scumbag Piece of Shit

This is what an asshole’s mugshot looks like.

As if the show weren’t horrible enough, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) is on Dancing With The Stars tonight. Sadly, ABC was unable to secure a furlough for ex-DeLay associate and convicted conman Jack Abramoff to serve as his dancing partner. I’m not sure how long DeLay will last on the show, but I fear that ABC has provided an outlet for DeLay to exercise his southern charm and show his human side.

But we know better. DeLay is human in form only. His evil machinations and blatant hypocrisies in Congress have been responsible for the perpetuation of great miseries and unspeakable acts. Although I do not have the time or the space to list every one of them, one in particular stands out above the rest. I am talking, of course, about DeLay’s knowing and willful blocking of legislation that would have imposed humane working standards on Saipan—an island part of the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which are themselves collectively a United States commonwealth.

As House Majority Whip and later House Majority Leader in the 1990s and 2000s, DeLay did his darnedest to protect heinous sweatshop owners on the island of Saipan who were slave-driving on behalf of the likes of Wal-Mart, Gap, Old Navy, Abercrombie and Fitch, Ralph Lauren, JCPenny, and others who wanted to skirt U.S. labor laws. The tale has been told many times over, complete with horror stories of pregnant workers being forced to get abortions, and children being forced into prostitution. DeLay, apparently sticking more to his anti-labor values than his Christianity-inspired anti-abortion principles, ignored the ugly reality of the plight of Saipan’s sweatshop laborers and child prostitutes. Plus, the all-expenses paid trips to the CNMI courtesy of Abramoff were just too good for DeLay and his family to turn down.

You can read more about the evil Tom DeLay, and his relationship with convicted felon and former lobbyist for the CNMI government, Casino Jack Abramoff, here.

Or, for those of you interested in reading about the other major scandal involving Tom DeLay—an ongoing investigation into whether he conspired to violate election laws—go here.

- Max