Ha ha – I just love the internet! What a miracle of modern science! What a glorious trap for suckers! Here’s former US congressman Tom Delay who, after being forced to resign his political office due to corruption charges, has decided to make a comeback of public life with his blog at http://www.tomdelay.com. Unfortunately he didn’t keep reckoning with the viciousness of the Blogosphere.

TomDeLay.com

Here’s his entry from Sunday, December 10, 2006

Welcome to my blog

Welcome to TomDeLay.com and thank you for visiting my new blog. Over the course of my political life I have learned many things, one of which is that not all good ideas come from Washington, D.C.. In fact I think that most of the best ideas come from concerned citizens from all over The United States.

Unfortunately, many D.C. insiders are simply incapable of looking outside the capital beltway for fresh opinions and new approaches that might otherwise help our nation.

I have created this blog in order to provide Americans with a new meeting place where such opinions and viewpoints might be better shared, discussed and debated; a place where conservative and traditionalist Americans might speak truth to power and to one another.

In all honesty, I did not fully realize the impact or potential of the blogosphere until very recently, when Red State gave me the opportunity to post some of my observations in the wake of the recent midterm elections. The response I received was overwhelming, and I would like to again thank the fine people at that site.

Within minutes he started receiving comments as follows:

Such unmitigated gall.
Your 3 First Principles “Order, Justice, and Freedom” obviously don’t include Honesty, Integrity, or Ethics. I particularly like the way the House Ethics Committee chairman, Joel Hefley, was removed after rebuking you 3 times. Yes, he was replaced by Delay groupie Doc Hastings, with a couple other groupies connected with your PAC. Sorta make sure no more untoward rebukes occur.

It’s good that you’re no longer a Representative; the stench of the 109th Congress will take a long time to fix.

December 10, 2006 | Unregistered Commenter Wilbur

YOUR ARE A FUCKING DISGRACE TO THE IDEAS OF GOLDWATER. CRAWL BACK INTO A HOLE YOU TURD!

December 10, 2006 | Unregistered Commenter Clayton Hutchinson

What a magnificently, terrifically boring and irrelevant blog. Honestly, who on earth cares what you have to say?

December 10, 2006 | Unregistered Commenter Miles Coverdale

etc. etc. It also seems the he doesn’t quite have a handle on what it means to allow unregistered comments:

OK, fuck all you critics,

December 10, 2006 | Unregistered Commenter Tom Delay

Now here’s the funny part. Upon noticing that his blog was actually doing what he said he wanted it to, to wit ‘I have created this blog in order to provide Americans with a new meeting place where such opinions and viewpoints might be better shared’, he promptly shut the motherfucker down and went about sanitizing the comments to leave only the good stuff. The comments now include hard hitting observations such as:

Just saw you on Fox! You looked and sounded great! Best of luck.

December 11, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterLynda Mixon

Dear Tom DeLay, may I say, we have missed you. Just your presence on the Web has given me a sense of security. There are many of us that know the Democrats lied and forced you out but, you will have your day! In the meantime, we are here and waiting to help. If we pull together and stay together, we can defeat these Liberals that are ruining our country. God be with you, just tell us what we can do.

December 11, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterDani Triplett

Tom – I’m glad you’ve jumped in to the blogosphere. I’m so tired of the fabian socialist propaganda the drive-by media passes off as “news”. Eventually, the left will meet overwhelming defeat, when we the people unite. December 11, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterVic Boling I am glad that you are doing this, i am intereste din your thoughts.

December 11, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterScull Factor

Phew! Disaster averted nes pas? Well, not quite. As is always the case with the internext there is a mirror of the original at http://www.tomdelaydotcom.blogspot.com/ which retains every nasty original comment. The question is this; how long before Delay pressures Google into taking down this blog? What grounds will he possibly use to push for such a removal? Defamation? Copyright? Being a person of high standing?