Idiots under the big tent

Good heavens. As if the Bush administration doesn't have enough quagmires to deal with, the House majority leader, Tom Delay, is about to visit the Middle East, with the message that the Palestinians aren't ready for their own state.

Perhaps it's just me, but isn't calling the Palestinians "a sovereign state of terrorists" simply trolling to make a bad situation worse? I mean, who paid for this visit: settlers' groups and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade?

So much for one big, happy family under the GOP's "big tent."