Tom DeLay

Tom DeLay is a former House majority leader, the second-ranking leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. As majority leader, he was responsible for developing the issues and policies that formed the Republican agenda. When Mr. DeLay left Congress in 2006, he devoted himself to helping conservatives. He is the founder of First Principles LLC, a consulting firm that works with a range of political organizations in the fields of grass roots, new media, communications and issue advocacy.

Articles by Tom DeLay

DeLAY: Defending an ally and defending the Constitution

Two outrages — one overseas and one right here in Washington — to deal with today, with our president on the wrong side of the issue in both cases.

July 31, 2014

DeLAY: Obama’s misguided message on immigration

My experience with the immigration issue and the problems posed along the border go a lot farther back than my first political campaign.

July 17, 2014

DeLAY: Failed policy the real reason Obama skipped a border trip

In a funny way, you can totally understand why President Obama decided in the end not to make the trip down to the border on his trip to Texas this week, to view for himself the failure of his immigration policy and the devastating results of his open-borders approach for Texas and the rest of the border states.

July 10, 2014

DeLAY: From King George III to King Obama I

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

July 3, 2014

DeLAY: A president who’s getting what he wants — unfortunately

With so many scandals and policy missteps building up around the White House these days, I actually want to start out by giving President Obama a little credit.

June 26, 2014

Tom DeLay: Dave Brat vs. Eric Cantor race rocked the rafters in Washington

That tremor that rattled Washington D.C. a few years back is nothing compared to the earthquake that rocked the city this week.

June 12, 2014

DeLAY: A new level of outrage in Bowe Bergdahl debacle

It's a season of outrages coming out of the Obama administration these days, from the scandal at the Veterans Administration to the unconstitutional, job-killing mandates being planned by the Environmental Protection Agency.

June 5, 2014

DeLAY: Primary fights leave GOP battle tested for November

The Republicans, as the national news media are only so happy to tell us, are having some pretty fierce internal primary battles this year. And that's a good thing.

May 29, 2014

DeLAY: Earmark, jumping mouse debates show government’s dysfunction

Today we discuss the fight over two endangered species: the Washington earmark and the New Mexico meadow jumping mouse. The current state of both tells us a lot about what's so dysfunctional in our government today.

May 15, 2014

DeLAY: Benghazi select committee may get to the heart of what ‘matters’

Better late than never. Had it been up to me, there would have been a special select House committee — with a special prosecutor — to look into all aspects of the Benghazi scandal a year or more ago.

May 8, 2014

DeLAY: From the Declaration, a clarion call to fight tyranny

"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

April 24, 2014