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Article: `The hammer' strikes.(Tom DeLay's view of Democratic Party)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- March 24, 2003
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* Commenting on Howard Dean's loudly applauded antiwar speech at the Democratic National Committee meeting, House majority leader Tom (Hammerhead) DeLay charged that Democrats "are fast becoming the appeasement party of the future." There's a mindless, thuggish quality to DeLay's broadsides (he says Democrats want "unlimited unemployment compensation so somebody could stay out of work for the rest of their lives"), but we must ask: Is he--and the Republican Party for which he is ...