The Wonders Of American Democracy

Tom DeLay, who just five years ago was still hailed as one of the most powerful people in America, has agreed to be a contestant on Dancing With The Stars, along with a guy named Ashley Hamilton, who is both the ex-husband of Shannen Doherty (195 days!) and a member of the supporting cast from 1993′s Beethoven’s 2nd, which starred a bunch of dogs. What a country.

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  • jc46202

    Amazing, isn’t it. Gives you hope that maybe one day, if you’re really really good, that you, too, will get the fame you so richly deserve by doing a little ballroom boogie on ABC.

  • http://phd9.blogspot.com Paul Dirks

    Who’d want to dance with someone referred to as “The Hammer”?
    .
    Is there something I’m missing?

  • freeinpa

    Is there something I’m missing?

    ALWAYS (that was too easy)

    If Olbermann can get a TV show anything is possible

  • http://ktheintz.wordpress.com/ kth

    It would have awesome if the Doherty ex-husband were Rick Solomon. Then DeLay might not be the most disgusting creature in the competition. At least Solomon would have given DeLay a run for his money in that regard.

  • georgiac

    I’m quite willing to bet that Mr. DeLay will not dance well.

  • FlownOver

    Tom Delay’s going to be dancing with Ashley Hamilton? That there’s appointment teevee, that is.

  • momentomaury

    Tom De Lay, Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey…
    .
    Why is it that the media spends more time talking to and about members of the Republican party *after* they’ve left office rather than holding them accountable when they were actually *in* office?
    .
    Better yet, why do I keep asking stupid questions?

  • palininatowel

    They should pair up delay with Blagojevich’s wife, Patti. She already knows how to dance with a political crook.

  • momentomaury

    Thanks, freeper, another fine example of right wing humor…
    .
    Here’s another for ya: What’s tall and smell like doo-doo?
    .
    OLBERMANN!
    .
    hahahahahahah!
    .
    You’re like a bunch of 3rd graders pretending to be adults.

  • palininatowel

    You left Palin off that list, as well.

  • palininatowel

    As long as they don’t want to get married.

  • palininatowel

    The problem with dancing with Delay is that a partner always risks flying off to the wall during a spin. He’s so oily that partners have a very difficult time remaining in contact with him.

  • Dee in Columbia MD

    I’m sorry, but it’s a bit much. Are my neighbors really people who demand Michael Vick get on bended knees to beg for a shot at his old job because he dared to be involved in dog fighting? I know, I know, we all love dogs, I have two of my own, but let’s face it, football is a incredibly brutal sport. Vick is a gladiator and we punished hm for indulging in gladiator like behavior. Not to mention the hypocrisy of simultaneously applauding Sarah “Real Americans do it” Palin for shooting wolves from helicopters. At least in Vick’s case, the dogs had a fighting chance. Yet a sleaze bag like Tom Delay leaves the Congress in disgrace, under felony indictment and only escapes other charges because of some bizarre technicality and he gets “Dancing with the Stars.”
    .
    We are some sick puppy’s my friend.

  • palininatowel

    No one ever said that “reality TV” had anything to do with reality.

  • palininatowel

    And as for Michael Vick, who give’s a rat’s a**? I find the fact that he’s playing football again less repugnant than the fact that “60 Minutes” opted to devote a segment to “the first exclusive interview” with the dog brutalizer.

  • cfukara

    “Wonders Of American Democracy”?

    Oh, yeah.

    If we wait long enough, you will suggest that the yelling crazies at town hall meetings are the sentinels of that democracy.

    MS, try hard enough
    (maybe as implicitly encouraged by a change in TIME’s ownership – such that a different spiel is deemed to be the best tack in trying to keep a job)
    and you will tell us about the wonders of democracy in Saudi Arabia.
    And Zimbabwe too.

  • freeinpa

    Thanks, freeper, another fine example of right wing humor…
    .
    Here’s another for ya: What’s tall and smell like doo-doo?
    .
    OLBERMANN!
    .
    hahahahahahah!
    .
    You’re like a bunch of 3rd graders pretending to be adults.
    momentomaury

    Yes this may be what passes for right wing humor but the above is what passes for left wing intellect

  • freeinpa

    palininatowel

    60 Minutes told another whopper- Vick held a press conference and Q&A in Philadelphia days before 60 minutes aired.

    But I guess you could parse the term “exclusive” for hours

  • Matt

    Interesting that only Republicans are washed-up enough to get on this program. Thinking of Tucker Carlson…

    http://www.political-buzz.com/

  • freeinpa

    That is because washed up Democrats just keep running for office. Thinking of Conyers, Murtha, Range, Specterl

  • palininatowel

    If they had “Boxing with the Stars” and Tucker Carlson was participating, I’d sign up in a flash just for opportunity to poke that little puke in the beak.

  • shirlyujest

    Isn’t “dancing with delay” just another way of saying these folks are the party of no but at a different tempo? What a chorus line of dancers who are out of step with reality…dancing with delay…just love it!

  • freeinpa

    I am sure this made sense to you when it flashed through your head

  • dumdedumdum

    Hey, Scherer, give the guy some props — Ashley Hamilton is George Hamilton’s son (by Alana Stewart, who has of late been monitoring the last days of Farah Fawcett), and ROD STEWART’s stepson! I realize your GOP overlords want you to ignore that stuff, but the full truth always stumbles free here on Swampland comments!

    Maybe the Hammer and Ashley will dance to “Tonight’s the Night” or even “Dancin’ the Night Away” — stranger things have happened, but not many.

  • joyousmn

    I’m thrilled to no end that this maggot is out of Congress. I don’t care what he does next as long as he doesn’t EVER get a leadership position in this country again.

    God, remember how awful 2005 was??? I told my husband in Feb of that year, that within 10 years nobody would want to admit they’d voted for Bush. I’d say that’s coming true. If the media told it more the way it is, they’d have figured it out faster.

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