DeLay-Watch! Drug Running Charges Being Probed Too, As Are "Whacking A Guy" Charges
Topic: Texas News

Is former GOP majority leader Tom DeLay a member of a secret Texas money-laundering cartel? Or is he perhaps... the ringleader? That's what the grand jury said late yesterday in Travis County, Texas. DeLay was re-indicted on charges of conspiring to commit money laundering and the big one of money laundering. Democrats have been waiting for this moment for months, and especially with Bill Frist on the ropes, it makes for a great beginning to the Devil's Month for the lefties.

“Ronnie Earle has stooped to a new low with his brand of prosecutorial abuse,” DeLay said in a statement. “He is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a ‘do-over’ since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate. This is an abomination of justice.”

Ah yes, Ronnie Earle, the infamous attorney who prosecuted... himself. While we're absolutely sure that DeLay and Co. will bribe and "convince" the right people, the big question is whether or not this will cause irreparable harm to the GOP. We think yes, but we care very little.

The second question is whether or not this is going to affect the confirmation hearings of Bush-proposed SCOTUS Harriet Miers. With the Democrats feeling sated after the indictment of DeLay and investigation of Frist, they might let Miers off relatively easy, despite the fact that she has no judicial experience and has been Bush's personal lawyer for over a decade. Or will they find some nude pictures from her younger days as a clerk in a Dallas law firm? Because this story needs some spice, and that would be hot.


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