We’ve highlighted DeLay’s complete disconnect with reality before, but today Knight-Ridder reports that he still can’t own up to his own party’s silliness:

Republicans may control Congress and the White House, but a leading House Republican says they can’t be blamed for runaway federal spending on their watch.

Blame it on the war, said Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Or the Democrats.

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He also blamed Democrats, complaining that they haven’t offered any suggestions on how to cut spending. He said they created a congressional budget process that makes it difficult to cut spending.

“We’ve been operating off a Congress designed by Democrats,” he said.

The Republicans took control of Congress in 1995.

What complete and utter bullshit. If he wasn’t already under indictment, I would suggest that he should be arrested for being really bad at shifting blame. Think about this for a second… Democrats control no branch of government and have to resort to obscure Senate procedures to even get the attention of the press and Senate. Yet, it’s their fault that Republicans can’t control spending.

Riiiiight.

(Saw this story first on Atrios’s blog)