DeLay’s Flexible Standards; God Warns DeLay at Press Conference; and Ohio’s Hizballah is on the March

Several articles came to my attention over the weekend and I felt they ought to be shared. The first is an interesting piece from the Los Angeles Times about House Leader Tom DeLay’s father.

“When his father's kidneys failed, the DeLay family decided against connecting him to a dialysis machine. "Extraordinary measures to prolong life were not initiated," said his medical report, citing "agreement with the family's wishes." His bedside chart carried the instruction: "Do not resuscitate."

On Dec. 14, 1988, the DeLay patriarch "expired with his family in attendance."”

On a lighter note, Andy Borowitz of the The Borowitz Report features a press conference where the big fellow himself expresses his dismay at DeLay’s recent shenanigans:

“When asked if He intended to strike Rep. DeLay with a lightning bolt, God replied with a terse “no comment,” but later said, “I’ve been known to smite people in the past, and I’m not prepared to take smiting off the table.”

Closer to home, Ohio’s right-wing Christians think that the leadership of the Republican Party is behaving like (gasp) a bunch of Massachusetts Liberals and they, according to the New York Times, intend to do something about it.

"The establishment of the Ohio Republican Party is out of touch with its base," said Russell Johnson, the pastor of the Fairfield Christian Church and the principal organizer of the project. "It acts as if it lives in Boston, Mass.".

The Taliban has apparently relocated to Ohio.