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Will the hits ever stop coming on the scummy side of Delay? His own family, 16 years ago! He is so disgusting, so hypocritical, and so OPPOTRTUNIST, a nd apparently without much diginity at all when it comes to reverence for his OWN family’s ordeal.
Sure , Delay can say he’s changed his mind (I don’t know that he will or would want to, or whether he will ever answer such things), but to apparently set that whole experience aside like this and negate the end of life issues HIS family faced with his Dad, and refuse that privacy that a more civilized society in his time was able to afford his family. Now he is a cheerleader, shameless, hypocrite, for a lynch mob that he would have abhorred in 1988.
A family tragedy that unfolded in a Texas hospital during the fall of 1988 was a private ordeal — without judges, emergency sessions of Congress or the debate raging outside Terri Schiavo’s Florida hospice.
The patient then was a 65-year-old drilling contractor, badly injured in a freak accident at his home. Among the family members keeping vigil at Brooke Army Medical Center was a grieving junior congressman — Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
More than 16 years ago, far from the political passions that have defined the Schiavo controversy, the DeLay family endured its own wrenching end-of-life crisis. The man in a coma, kept alive by intravenous lines and oxygen equipment, was DeLay’s father, Charles Ray DeLay.In 1988, however, there was no such fiery rhetoric as the congressman quietly joined the sad family consensus to let his father die.