RSI Visits TomDeLay.com

Tom DeLay, the former majority leader of the House of Representatives, has created his own blog in an effort to do for conservatives what Huffington Post and Daily Kos achieve on the left.

It doesn't work. While in the House of Representatives, DeLay was the living embodiment of the hard-headed mentality of the Republican leadership--"The Hammer." However, DeLay's blog is an exercise in conservative political correctness and punch-pulling. Unsurprisingly, DeLay doesn't do "conservative nice" all that well.

Today's entries include a column on Nancy Pelosi where "NJ Conservative" takes Pelosi to task for breaking her promise to promote greater civility by excluding Republican proposals and amendments for her "first 100 hours" push" on the minimum wage, Medicare prescriptions, and ethics.

So Nancy Pelosi is breaking her promises about "including Republicans." Big deal! If that's the worst thing Pelosi does as Speaker of the House, she'll be a huge success.

Of course, TomDeLay.com is in a difficult position on "civility" because DeLay himself pioneered so many techniques for belittling and excluding the Democrats. However, "NJ Conservative" didn't even mention that Pelosi's tactics are testimony to the popularity of Republican positions on cutting taxes, benefiting small business, curtailing abortions, and other issues. Pelosi didn't want to allow Republican amendments because she was afraid they'd put the Democrats in uncomfortable positions. It takes a mighty weak Republican to ignore that fact and "NJ Conservative" appears to be a very weak.

But not as weak as DeLay himself.

DeLay writes an incredibly insipid response to a letter from a Massachusetts conservative concerning the chances of turning Massachusetts back into a Republican state. After mentioning that Republicans were able to change their fortunes in Texas, DeLay goes on:

"Things can change, but it takes a lot of research, hard work, talent, determination and a relentlessly pursued strategy for victory to get started. I believe that our conservative ideals are embraced by a majority of Americans. We just need to unite our movement by articulating how we can move America forward better than our opponents. "

Pablum from beginning to end. As a "conservative strategist and grass roots leader," DeLay should be offering some hint of what "relentlessly pursued strategy for victory" he would offer to Massachusetts Republicans. In fact, re-establishing a Republican presence in New England has to be a high priority for conservatives if they want to be a national movement. However, DeLay doesn't even have the conservative energy needed to take a shot at Teddy Kennedy let alone tell Massachusetts and New England Republicans how they can climb out of their particularly deep hole. What DeLay is ultimately telling his correspondent is that he doesn't have the time or energy to think about New England.

From the evidence of his blog, Tom DeLay is a spent force in conservative politics. Maybe he should go into lobbying instead.