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A very special season finale of Dancing with the Stars features Texas' paunchy political star, Tom DeLay.

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Tom Delay on Dancing with the Stars
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He's all healed. Earlier this season, former U.S. House Minority Leader Tom DeLay was forced out of ABC's Dancing with the Stars competition due to stress fractures in his foot, but he returned to the dance floor last night to do the Texas Two-Step with Texas pride. He and partner Cheryl Burke gyrated, shook and sometimes two-stepped to George Strait's "I Can See Texas From Here".

As the Star-Telegram puts it, he performed but [it] did not erase the image of him, dancing, to use the term loosely, to the Trog's 'Wild Thing' [earlier this season].

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