DeLay: We’ve Got a Nice, Lean Government Here!

Tom DeLay is flat-out delusional today.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an “ongoing victory,” and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget.
Mr. DeLay was defending Republicans’ choice to borrow money and add to this year’s expected $331 billion deficit to pay for Hurricane Katrina relief. Some Republicans have said Congress should make cuts in other areas, but Mr. DeLay said that doesn’t seem possible.
“My answer to those that want to offset the spending is sure, bring me the offsets, I’ll be glad to do it. But nobody has been able to come up with any yet,” the Texas Republican told reporters at his weekly briefing.

Is it that no one can find any offsets or because no one is willing to see their pet offsets get cut?

My bet is on the latter.

Beyond that, though, someone needs to whisper into DeLay’s ear that leadership actually includes…well…leading. If DeLay really wanted spending offsets, he would have them right now. He wouldn’t be sitting in his office like Jabba the Hut waiting for stuff to be brought to him. He’d be rattling every Republican cage he could find and he’d have all the offsets he could want.

But he doesn’t have those offsets because he doesn’t want them. See, he’s just fine with the ginormity of the Federal Government

Asked if that meant the government was running at peak efficiency, Mr. DeLay said, “Yes, after 11 years of Republican majority we’ve pared it down pretty good.”

Immediately after recording this quote, reporters had to dive out of the way of a series of freak lightning bolts that struck in DeLay’s near vicinity.

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