Well, that was fast!

Today indicted former Majority Leader Tom DeLay joined the online community with a blog of his very own.

And he's already suspended commenting.

Gee...who saw THAT coming?

(and as an aside: can that picture be accurate? Is "The Hammer" REALLY only 5 foot 2 inches tall? That would make him nearly a dwarf...and explain a LOT!)

From THIS ARTICLE at Rawstory.com:

Former Texas Congressman Tom DeLay, who resigned as Republican Majority Leader after being indicted on state campaign finance charges, formally launched a new "career" as a blogger on Sunday.

And like many writers on the Internet who toil without an editor's aid, the "Hammer-turned-blogger" proves susceptible to occasional misspellings and awkward use of grammar.

News about DeLay's latest move was first reported in a gossip post at U.S. News & World Report's Website.

"Friends tell us that the powerful former House majority leader, dubbed the 'Hammer' for his tough persuasion tactics, this week unveils TomDeLay.com, where he'll blog—DeLay's Daily—on newsy issues and build a coalition he's calling Grassroots, Action, and Information Network," Paul Bedard wrote in Friday's Washington Whispers column. "Sources said the right-leaning Texan will give gain members insider information on the conservative movement and urge them to step in on key issues."

Bedard warns Democrats not to "apply," since DeLay's site will be designed to filter all undesirables out.

DeLay's site isn't, technically, a new one, as the same address previously served as the home for the Tom DeLay for Congress campaign.

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Sunday's first political post at TomDeLay.com slams Jimmy Carter - "perhaps our nation's worst President" - for blaming "the problems in the Middle East not on Islamic extremism, but on Israel" in his new book Palestinian Peace, not Apartheid, which the budding blogger misspells as "Aparthied."

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Comments Disabled - At the time of this article's publication, there was an open comment thread at DeLay's blog, but sometime early Sunday evening the commenting function was disabled. In addition, DeLay's three initial posts at the blog were removed, with no explanations given for the removals.

However, as the way things usually happen on the Internet, someone managed to save a copy of DeLay's first post, which was then published on a new blog, where it still retains a number of objectionable comments which may have shut down the once-open threads.

Some commenters had either mockingly or fervently expressed hope that the former Republican Congressman would be convicted and then raped by other inmates in prison, while others liberally threw around the f-word.

Hmmm...while Tom's blogroll includes conservative hacks like Malkin and LGF, so far there's no "Opponents List"! If there was, you KNOW ol' CT Bob would be doing everything humanly possible to get onto it.

Maybe "The Hammer" can borrow a clue from the FIC Blog (and I hope they appreciate all the "hits" we've been giving them!)