Tom DeLay surrenders to Stephen Colbert [VIDEO]

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May 22, 2007Video

A perpetually grinning DeLay is like a deer in the headlights when confronted with Stephen Colbert's in-character blowhard. Colbert reads directly from DeLay's book No Retreat, No Surrender and repeatedly calls "The Hammer" on his hypocrisy face to face. Meanwhile within minutes DeLay compares liberals to Hilter, himself to Jesus, and claims that the House's handling of the Terri Schiavo case is one his proudest achievements. And you thought President Bush was deluded about his legacy.

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