Tom DeLay, in the midst of ridiculing Kerry, alienates his entire staff (not to mention most of the Washington press corps):

"In a reference to one of the Clinton campaign's favorite sayings, he went on: 'Instead of, "It's the economy, stupid," we have, "When the going gets tough, blame the help," and that attitude has no place in public. I mean, if I blamed these knuckleheads' - and here, the majority leader gestured toward his own aides, arrayed nearby - 'behind me for every bump in the road around here, then I couldn't blame you guys.'"