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Following up on my earlier post… I saw today, on Plastic, a quicklink to coverage of venal US Representative Tom DeLay’s speech to the membership of a group called “Vision America”. He claims there’s a war against Christianity in the United States.

I thought that was very funny.

Even funnier, from organizer Rick Scarborough: “This is a man, I believe, God has appointed … to represent righteousness in government.”

Hee!

And the man himself, DeLay: “Our faith has always been in direct conflict with the values of the world.” Nowhere on his Congressional homepage is his talent as a medium discussed, but he seemed to be possessed by Nietzsche for just a second there. If he had only meant it that way, maybe there would have been hope… Scarborough’s congregants saw fit to suffer a witch to live, though, and he got better, delivering the sort of platitudes and tautologies they presumably paid him to hear (”…Jesus Christ himself made us just so that we could live in this nation at this time.”).

At least DeLay’s former colleague James Traficant had an entertaining hairpiece. For a while there, DeLay somehow was managing to be crooked without being interesting, but his recent foray into ensemble comedy is somewhat promising.