by Tina Grazier
Republicans have no one to blame but themselves. They wrote the House rule that required the House Majority Leader to step down from his powerful position before his day in court. That miserable reality doesnt alter the fact that the witch hunt for Tom Delay was in fact a political ploy from the gitgo:
AUSTIN The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today refused to reinstate criminal conspiracy charges against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and two co-defendants. *** DeLay, R-Sugar Land, and political consultants Jim Ellis and John Colyandro were accused of conspiring to violate state election laws in the 2002 elections for the Texas House. But lower courts threw out the indictment on grounds that conspiracy to violate the election code was not a crime until 2003. *** A majority of the Court of Criminal Appeals agreed.
Now convince me that Ronnie Earl, that old rattle snake, was clueless.