Yahoo! News - DeLay Finds Friendly Audience With NRA
Those subtle threats keep on a comin' from 'ol Tom.

It was a joke, ha ha? Yeah, right.

HOUSTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, under fire for alleged ethics violations, accused liberal Democrats and the national media of giving him a hard time in a keynote speech at the National Rifle Association's annual convention Saturday evening.

DeLay only briefly mentioned the ethics accusations, telling members of the gun-rights group that he appreciated their support.

"When a man is in trouble or in a good fight, you want to have your friends around, preferably armed. So I feel really good," the Republican from nearby Sugar Land said.

I'm picturing a scene of Tom in a compound at Sugar Land, guns in both hands, screaming, "You'll never take me alive!"

Actually, he'll probably have his minions do the fighting for him, while he cowers in the corner.

Yeesh.