The notion of blaming Americans for the Bush administration’s failures in Iraq started catching on among some high-profile conservatives a couple of weeks ago. The offensive approach has already been thoroughly debunked, but that didn’t stop Tom DeLay from spouting his blame-Americans-first nonsense on Fox News last night.
Here’s another major Republican name who blames Americans first for the problems in Iraq — and will explain why. Tom DeLay, appearing on Hannity and Colmes last night to promote his new on-and-off blog, took square aim at the real culprits for problems in the war in Iraq. “It’s the fault of the liberals and the media and the Democrats, that from the very beginning have tried to undermine the will of the American people to fight this,” DeLay said.
After Alan Colmes, in a moment of bravery, reminded DeLay that Democrats were out of power during the course of this war, DeLay nevertheless set out to explain in detail just how the problems in Iraq are the fault of liberals and other war critics. “It has nothing to do with power,” DeLay said. “It has everything to do with perception, Alan, and you know it as well as I do.”
I’d really like to understand what on earth DeLay is talking about here, because I suspect that there are plenty of conservatives who agree with the sentiment. I just can’t make heads or tails of it.
The argument seems to be that mean ol’ Dems, despite having no power to speak of, convinced gullible Americans into believing the war in Iraq is a mistake. This, in turn, led to an Iraqi insurgency and civil war, fueled almost entirely by “perceptions.” Perceptions of what? DeLay didn’t say.
Remember, this guy, up until fairly recently, ran the House of Representatives.
Maybe DeLay could help flesh out what he meant by all of this on his new blog. Oh wait…
…he doesn’t actually write for his new blog.
Criminally indicted ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) launched a personal blog yesterday. The new site seemed to mark a shift for DeLay: last year, he said he found the fact that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy “does his own research on the Internet” to be “just incredibly outrageous.” Now, DeLay says he wants to “be a role model that leaders ought to have their own blog.”
During an appearance last night on MSNBC, DeLay was asked about the mechanics of writing for his new blog. “Well, I’m not a very good writer,” DeLay acknowledged. “I have the ideas, and I have somebody else put the words together.” Apparently he still isn’t interested in doing research on the Internet.
And here I thought DeLay couldn’t get anymore embarrassing. Once again, he’s exceeded my expectations.