It depends on what the meaning of ‘humility’ is

Tom DeLay, when he’s under fire, and knows everyone is looking:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) delivered an emotional homily yesterday on the need for greater humility in public servants, declaring himself a sinner before a largely Christian audience and warning that pride has brought down leaders throughout history.

“Just think of what we could accomplish if we checked our pride at the door, if collectively we all spent less time taking credit and more time deserving it,” DeLay told the 54th annual National Day of Prayer gathering on Capitol Hill…. A television correspondent asked DeLay how he had chosen his topic, and the lawmaker replied, “Humility is something I work on every day.”

Tom DeLay, when he’s high on the hog, and thinks no one is looking:

A couple of years ago, Tom DeLay was chomping on a cigar at a Washington restaurant with some lobbyists. The manager went over to tell him he couldn’t smoke because the restaurant was located on property leased from the federal government, which bars smoking. “I am the federal government,” DeLay said.

If humility is something DeLay works on every day, he must not be working very hard.

He meant to say “Humility is something I work OVER every day.”

  • Actually, what he said was: “Humiliating people is something I work on every day.”

  • Some years ago, a certain high-profile televangelist was caught red-handed with a cheap hooker in a sleazy motel. He deflected the consequences by staging a truly pathetic tearful and choking admission of guilt on his TV show. DeLay must be feeling the same kind of heat and hoping to at least stay out of prison by pulling the same transparent exercise in fake redemption.

    Note to Mr. DeLay: It ain’t working.

  • Now this has a nice ring to it – Tom the Humble Hammer
    Maybe when he’s wearing a grey jump suit standing in line with 300 hundred other convicts waiting for his trayful of food he will truly come to understand the meaning of humility.

  • The Bugman must have been a lousy exterminator, because he sure wouldn’t recognize “humility” if it were the size of a dog biting him in the ass. What a pathetic — or insane — fool he is if he believes that most thinking Americans are buying his “pander to the base” actions are going to save him from his ultimate days of reckoning, both in this life and in the next.

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