On Larry King Live Wednesday night, former House Majority Leader and erstwhile Dancing With The Stars contestant Tom DeLay remembered the good old days, when we had bipartisan dance parties and the simple destruction of opponents’ good names.
“I’m suggesting we have a dance once a week in Washington where the Democrats and Republicans come together and party together,” DeLay said. “We used to do that, by the way, in the [Texas] state legislature. … It’s hard to get mad at someone you dance with.”
Larry King then asked DeLay what he thought about the viciousness of today’s political atmosphere.
“It’s getting really nasty,” DeLay said. “The paradigm of politics used to be, just ruin someone’s reputation and you could beat him. But now, there’s the criminalization of politics. You want to bankrupt people, destroy their families, send them to jail.”
“It’s really sad,” he said.
