DeLay Says He’s Writing A Book, Would Have Done Nothing Differently In First Interview Since Withdrawal

Tom Delay was interviewed by a Houston television station Thursday.

He was teter-tottering on the heights of Mount Arrogance when he talked about his forthcoming book.

DeLay noted that it would chronicle his 22 year political carer and the importance of it in the history of the American conservative movement—but that it would not be an autobiography:

It’s going to be written about me. It’s not an autobiography; it’s going to look at my career and the history of the United States over the last 22 years and how that advanced the conservative cause, and have a little bit of my spiritual walk threaded through it.

[Interview link is here; it will open Windows Media Player]

I’m sorry, but if YOU write a book about YOURSELF, it is an autobiography.

/Maybe he’s just calling it a ‘memoir.’ After all, he is French.

Then, DeLay talked about he “knew” the law and “read the law” when it came to withdrawing from office:

Knowing what I know now, I’d probably—I don’t know what…I don’t think I’d have done it any differently. because I read texas law I knew what Texas law was and I knew that my future was in Washington D.C.

Whether he “knew” the law is another story. After all, he was in The Lege and voted on the law, so he really should have known its original intent.

In an amicus brief submitted by members of the 68th Texas Legislature—the session of the state legislature that passed the laws at the center of the removal lawsuit—attorneys for the current and former legislators behind the brief noted that DeLay was a member of the Texas House, on the floor at the time the legislation was considered, and did not vote against the legislation or, at least, record a ‘no’ vote when the legislation, Senate Bill 122, came up in the House.