Delay is officially gone and you can read his farewell speech over at WaPo.

In it is this interesting little bit that seems to be a peace-gesture to liberals was played over and over again on the news yesterday that I was watching at least.

Had liberals not fought us tooth and nail over tax cuts and budget cuts and energy and Iraq, and partial-birth abortion, those of us on this side of the aisle could only imagine all the additional things we could have accomplished.

But the fact of the matter is, Mr. Speaker, they didn't agree with us. So to their credit, they stood up to us, they argued with us, and they did so honorably, on behalf of more than 100 million people, just like we did against President Clinton and they did against President Reagan.

But because this is Tom Delay and he is giving a speech on the benefits of partisanship and hatred he can't resist ruining it with snide remarks (not shown on the TV news I saw)

Now it goes without saying, Mr. Speaker, that by my count, our friends on the other side of the aisle lost every one of those arguments over the last 22 years, but that's beside the point.

Now in regards to the first statement, I think this is his last strategic move against the Democrats. As he exits he wants them to think the pathetic opposition they've represented over the last 12 years actually represents "tooth and nail" fighting. Let them pat themselves on the back for all that loyalty to ideals they've been showing over there on the Democratic side. Yeah right. If "tooth and nail" is voting with Republicans for 3 years nonstop after 9/11 for war and tax cuts then sure, that's a hell of an opposition party we've got here. Nice try Tom.