{"id":4142,"date":"2005-05-06T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4142.html"},"modified":"2005-05-06T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T13:56:15","slug":"it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-humility-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-humility-is\/","title":{"rendered":"It depends on what the meaning of &#8216;humility&#8217; is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/05\/05\/AR2005050501547.html\">Tom DeLay<\/a>, when he&#8217;s under fire, and knows everyone is looking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; DeLay told the 54th annual National Day of Prayer gathering on Capitol Hill&#8230;. A television correspondent asked DeLay how he had chosen his topic, and the lawmaker replied, &#8220;Humility is something I work on every day.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7614140\/site\/newsweek\/\">Tom DeLay<\/a>, when he&#8217;s high on the hog, and thinks no one is looking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;t smoke because the restaurant was located on property leased from the federal government, which bars smoking. &#8220;I am the federal government,&#8221; DeLay said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If humility is something DeLay works on every day, he must not be working very hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom DeLay, when he&#8217;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. &#8220;Just think of what we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}