By the way Tommy... THAT'S ILLEGAL!

Tom DeLay, ever the hypocrite, is seen in a Time magazine photo smoking a big 'ol CUBAN stogie. The trouble is that Tommy is supposedly against anything that puts money into Fidel Castro's "blood-thirsty" hands.

The photo in question is in the same issue which has Ann Coulter the shrill blonde harpy on the cover. I can almost hear Tom now. "Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics!"

But Did He Inhale?

Anti-Castro Majority Leader Tom DeLay enjoys a fine Cuban cigar

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes, according to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a cigar is an economic prop to a brutal totalitarian regime. Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay warned that Fidel Castro "will take the money. Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro's blood-thirsty hands.... American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor."
Read on... (w/ photo)