Who’s Ox is Being Gored?
Tom DeLay on March 18 struck out at criticism of his trips and close ties to lobbyists as the product of a conspiracy to "destroy the conservative movement" by attacking its leaders, such as himself. "This is a huge, nationwide, concerted effort to destroy everything we believe in," DeLay told supporters at the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group.
Wow.
Wasn’t all that long ago that Hillary Clinton went public with nearly the same word-for-word complaint, accusing Republicans of a “national conspiracy to destroy the Clinton presidency.” I don’t know if a conspiracy trumps a concerted effort but politics has always been a blame-game since the days when Alexander Hamilton went after Jefferson for very nearly the same stuff. It’s character assassination if you’re the guy being shot at and just desserts if you’re the guy blowing the smoke off the end of his barrel. A dangerous game in the early years of our nation, as a guy could get called-out to a duel in those days an…