Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told The New Yorker about his future plans, and what’s motivating him to keep up his conservative crusade. (via Ron Chusid)

Earlier this year, [DeLay] published a memoir called “No Retreat, No Surrender” … in which he claimed that as a young congressman he would on occasion drink ten to twelve Martinis at a time. In this period, he earned the nickname Hot Tub Tom. Then he found Jesus and, he said, stopped sinning. In the book, he freely confesses to committing adultery. “I had put my needs first,” he told me. “I was on the throne, not God. I had pushed God from His throne.” […]

DeLay says that when, in the coming years, he is not fighting the indictment in Texas (he insists that he is not guilty) he will be building a conservative grass-roots equivalent of MoveOn.org. “God has spoken to me,” he said. “I listen to God, and what I-ve heard is that I-m supposed to devote myself to rebuilding the conservative base of the Republican Party, and I think we shouldn-t be underestimated.”

Well, he’s quite the modern-day Noah, isn-t he? An omnipotent God is not only concerned about the future of the Republican Party, He’s specifically worried about the right-wing base of the Republican Party. And this same God is not only interested in the base, but He specifically wants a corrupt exterminator to lead the way in building a rejuvenated far-right movement.

And we know all of this to be true because Tom DeLay received a message directly from God, who told him to take on these challenges.

Remember, when you talk to God, it’s prayer. When God talks to you, it’s schizophrenia.

I should note that, tempting though it may be to dismiss DeLay, he still matters.

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