38 - The Right At Its Democracy-Trashing, Greedy Worst: Lesser-Known Episodes In Tom DeLay's Career / Undocumented Immigrants Have The Right To Stay

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🗓️ 20 April 2006

⏱️ 30 minutes

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It's not well-known that Tom DeLay played a crucial role in stopping the Florida recount in 2000, or, that he single-handedly defied the U.S. Senate to force continued immiseration and poverty onto workers in an American overseas territory.Instead of begrudgingly allowing 12 million undocumented immigrants to remain here with the woe-is-us rationale that it's just too hard to round them all up,

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is Podcast No. 38 of Blast the Right, Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com
0:27.6	We'll start off today by discussing two of the least known and ugliest episodes of Tom
0:38.8	Delay's sorted career.
0:41.6	Next, I'll give my take on why undocumented immigrants have the right to stay here.
0:50.4	We'll also do some listener email.
0:54.5	Let's get right into it.
0:57.5	Tom Delay may seem like old history by now given our short attention spans.
1:03.5	He's out of there and will hopefully soon be in jail.
1:07.2	End of story, right?
1:09.9	Not quite yet.
1:13.4	There are two little reported episodes in Delay's sorted career that are definitely worth
1:19.8	telling you about, because they illustrate in perfect fashion two of the ugliest aspects
1:26.6	of right-winger behavior, subverting democracy to further their goals, and oppressing the
1:35.4	very least of these that the Lord these right-wing Christians claim to worship Jesus Christ
1:41.8	commanded them to protect and help.
1:46.5	My sources for this segment are Amali Ivan's column in the Boulder Delay Camera, a John
1:52.8	Nichols piece in the Nation magazine, and the prepared text of a speech by Bill Moyers.
2:00.1	All were reprinted on common dreams.org, first subverting democracy.
2:08.3	No, I'm not going to talk again about how right-wingers try to thwart democratic elections
2:15.4	abroad, for example in Haiti, Bolivia, and Venezuela, when the results threaten to or do put
2:24.0	in power those whom the right-wing dislikes, no, what I'm going to talk about is subverting
2:31.6	democracy here at home.
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