{"id":796,"date":"2010-03-08T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2010-03-08T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:24:00","slug":"gop-sweetheart-382010-tom-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/gop-sweetheart-382010-tom-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sweetheart: 3\/8\/2010 &ndash; Tom DeLay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can\u2019t believe this fool actually said this.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: arial; font-size: 9.75pt\"><span style=\"color: black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tom_delay.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"tom_delay\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tom_delay\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tom_delay_thumb.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a> Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay \u2014 who\u2019s clearly <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanupwashington.org\/hos\/page.cfm?pageid=10\" target=\"_blank\">earned the right <\/a><span style=\"color: black\">to pass moral judgement \u2014 has an explanation for the high rates of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment<\/a><span style=\"color: black\"> that continue to plague the economy despite rosy predictions of recovery: the problem rests with the unemployed, of course \u2014 and the Democratic lawmakers who insist on sapping the moral fiber of the populace with extravagant giveaways to all the jobless layabouts living large on the government\u2019s dime (the ones who lost their jobs when<\/span><span style=\"color: black; text-decoration: line-through\"> piggish corporate greed unleashed by deregulation took out the econom<\/span><span style=\"color: black\">y for no obvious reason we slipped into a slight recession). DeLay expounded his economic theory on Candy Crowley\u2019s CNN show Sunday, also calling Jim Bunning \u201cbrave\u201d for holding up the extension of unemployment benefits last week. From <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2010\/03\/delay-unemployment-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt\"><strong>\u201cThere is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits, keep people from going and finding jobs<\/strong>,\u201d he told CNN\u2019s Candy Crowley Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt\">\u201c<strong>In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don\u2019t look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out<\/strong>,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: arial; color: black; font-size: 10pt\">\u201cPeople are unemployed because they want to be? \u201d asked Crowley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: arial; color: #333333; font-size: 9.75pt\">\u201cWell, it is the truth. And people in the real world know it,\u201d said DeLay\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: arial; color: #333333; font-size: 9.75pt\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.alternet.org\/speakeasy\/2010\/03\/07\/compassionate-conservative-tom-delay-people-dont-have-jobs-because-theyre-too-lazy-to-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Only a true GOP Sweetheart could tell such a callous, heartless lie, when I have personally seen a line over three blocks long to try to get one of three menial jobs offered by a Portland company.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe this fool actually said this. Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay \u2014 who\u2019s clearly earned the right to pass moral judgement \u2014 has an explanation for the high rates of unemployment that continue to plague the economy despite rosy predictions of recovery: the problem rests with the unemployed, of course \u2014 and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/gop-sweetheart-382010-tom-delay\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}