A Wake-Up Call Over Arrogance and Power
If you want yet another reason among the gazillion that make America a great country, witness how it treats the arrogant and powerful when they become too sure of that power.
Tom DeLay decided today that ‘for reasons of party unity’ he will resign from the House of Representatives and not run for his old seat this coming fall. Horsefeathers!. Tony C. Rudy, DeLay’s former deputy chief of staff just copped a plea and Tom suddenly became hotter than a $2 pistol as the pols waited for whatever shoe might drop from Rudy’s informed lips.
All bets are off for whether Tom will find his polished shoe stuck in Jack Abramoff's mud. But the old bluster and bluff of ‘I’ll be back’ has tanked. A DeLay who’s naked as a jay-bird (a minor pronunciation away from jail-bird) won’t garner a whole lot of Republican trial-costs support. Unless it’s hush-money. Hushing is hard to do under oath, Tom.
The braggarts fall hard. Newt Gingrich can give chapter and verse about that.
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