Word: delayer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay had been dreading for months was brought by an aide, who interrupted DeLay's weekly lunch with Dennis Hastert in the House Speaker's office. DeLay absorbed it, and then the man widely called "the Hammer" on Capitol Hill (though rarely to his face) did what he does best: he hit back. "All right," DeLay replied. "Let's go. Let's go fight." Less than three hours later, before a roomful of reporters, DeLay addressed a Texas grand jury's charge that he and two political associates conspired to funnel...
Combativeness has seen Tom DeLay through near-death experiences before, but on the Hill late last week, it was hard to miss the signs that his foot soldiers and allies had begun positioning themselves in anticipation of his demise. G.O.P. rules require that DeLay, 58, majority leader since 2003, relinquish his post while he fights the conspiracy charge, and speculation is rife that even if he is acquitted his days as one of the most powerful men in the House could be over. "You leave a job like this, there is no coming back," says a top Republican official...
Almost immediately, it did. A plan engineered by DeLay and Hastert to install complaisant Rules Committee chairman David Dreier as temporary majority leader was nixed by conservatives who dislike Dreier's moderate positions on stem-cell research and gay marriage. Instead the brain trust installed ambitious whip Roy Blunt, who will share some of the majority leader's duties with Dreier. The setup is so shaky that some House Republicans are pressing for the election of a new leadership team as early as January...
...SQUARE THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS OVER THE YEARS TO LIMIT ENDLESS APPEALS BY DEATH-ROW INMATES WITH THE POSSIBILITY THAT DNA TESTING CAN CLEAR SOMEONE'S NAME AT THE 11TH HOUR? No one should be executed who's innocent--bottom line. But if additional delays are possible through DNA testing, that would be something I would worry about. We ought to be able to work out a system where you can take advantage of DNA testing but it wouldn't unduly delay the administration of justice...
...stumble upon a few freaky tricks, like cueing up "The Sporting Life" by the Decemberists on both iPods, and setting them half a beat apart. The tom-toms thundered after each other in synch, and the vocals sounded like they had a cool delay (or echo) effect. At another point, I played a stand-up routine by the late great Mitch Hedberg paired with random music...