Tom Delay's New Blog

In a feeble attempt to salvage any political relevance he might have, Tom Delay launched a blog today. I tried to post a comment, but shortly after learned that they shut down comments. For now, I am posting my comment below, but better yet, huge kudos goes to blogger James Risser who created a site this morning chronicling the first 111 comments on Delay's blog, "a tribute to the 75-minute period where tom delay actually received feedback from America. The experiment has now ended, but, this blog has taken a snap-shot". Go see this site. The truth is priceless.

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Tom: Welcome to the real world of mainstream media - or MSM as you call it. I was moved by your mission statement on the importance of the blogosphere in "breaking through the liberal MSM clutter" and keeping "our elected officials true to principle."

Now that you've removed the big media shield between you and the mainstream (yea, that's us, your actual constituents), it will be interesting to see how you talk about how your criminal indictment for "conspiring to inject illegal corporate contributions into state elections," "re-ordering Texas congressional maps" and other such true-to-principle Republican pastimes. As you say, the importance of the blogosphere in shaping and motivating these GOP movements is unquestionable...