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What Tom DeLay Might Have Had in Mind When He Hatched the Cockamamie and Short-Lived Scheme to Use a Cruise Ship During the Republican Convention

"A cruise ship in the harbor," thought DeLay, "Could be a place where decent folks would stay, Avoiding all that mob that we detest--

Calvin Trillin

December 11, 2003

“A cruise ship in the harbor,” thought DeLay, “Could be a place where decent folks would stay, Avoiding all that mob that we detest– New Yorkers, who are foreigners at best. We’d still get pictures showing Bush as hero While speaking resolutely at Ground Zero. A pity it’s to Sodom we must drag Our George to get him wrapped up in the flag.”

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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