By title, he is House majority whip, or the third-ranking House Republican, although inside the Capitol he is widely considered the most dominant force in Congress and the de facto leader of the right. As we leave First Baptist, I ask DeLay about the many citizens who would be quite uncomfortable with the idea that he would mold the government in the belief that his religion fundamentalist Christianity had the only answers to society's problems. DeLay looks me squarely in the eye and shakes his head sadly. When faced with the truth, the truth hurts. It is human nature not to face that . . .
People hate the messenger.
That's why they killed Christ. And so Tom DeLay makes it perfectly clear that his personal mission is to reshape the moral fabric of the nation, to remake it more in his likeness. More Wash. Post . Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh will take a fresh look at his case and consider fighting his death sentence following the government's decision to postpone his execution for nearly a month, his lawyers said Friday. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the delay after the FBI admitted it had not turned over more than 3,000 pages of documents related to the case.