I suppose I’m the last person to find out (morning news scan came later than usual), but there’s some fine news out of Washignton for a change: Tom DeLay is falling on his sword. He gives his reasons why in a Time interview, basically admitting that he has no chance in hell of winning re-election, especially if he spends November in prison (okay, you have to filter out the politicalese bullshit to get to that point, but it’s what he’s saying).
Not hard to find more on the subject, but firedoglake and Daily Kos are good places to start.
For myself, I am characteristically unoptimistic (pace georgia10), and I think that this is going to be sold and reported as the expiation of all the GOP’s sins. Sure it’s satisfying to see a man so utterly without merit as a person pay for it, but I’m sick of moral victories. So good riddance, DeLay, you festering blight. Have fun watching your party, which you still cling to like an abusive lover, do everything it can to forget you ever existed.
And since everybody else is doing it, a bit of fun for y’all – John “Hinderaker” Assrocket writes what might be the least-correct paragraph ever composed in English:
It’s too bad, I think. DeLay was an effective leader, albeit too liberal in recent years. It’s possible, of course, that he did something wrong along the way. But there is no evidence of that in the public domain; as I’ve often said, the politically-inspired prosection of DeLay by Travis County’s discredited DA, Ronnie Earle, is a bad joke. As far as we can tell at the moment, DeLay appears to be yet another victim of the Democrats’ politics of personal destruction–the only politics they know.
At a certain point you just have to step back in awe.