DeLay Tactics

A true story, as reported in The Washington Post in May of 2003: In an upscale Washington D.C. steak house, Tom DeLay and about 30 political supporters are just finishing the main course when DeLay and several others light up cigars. Tom Khandker, the manager of the restaurant, approaches DeLay and respectfully informs him that the building is owned by the federal government and prohibits smoking, entreating DeLay to extinguish his cigar. Tom DeLay, recalcitrant at the plebeian's directive, retorts, "I am the federal government" and storms off with some cronies to fire up elsewhere.
This comes from an excellent opinion piece in the Daily Texan By Joshua Huck