“Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?”

— Tom DeLay

[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090901930.html On the refugees of Hurricane Katrina]] ~ As reported in the Washington Post, (10 September 2005)
2000s

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American Republican politician 1947

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