Crush The Roach
Today may very well be the beginning of the end for the Roach. Tom Delay was indicted today on charges of conspiracy to circumvent Texas state campaign laws. This indictment forces Delay to step aside from his role as House Majority Leader. It also suggests that prosecutors may well be on the verge of blowing the cover off of the sewer that the GOP has turned Texas politics into. This is an instance not of 'follow the money,' but of 'follow the fallout.' Allegedly Delay and friends plotted to funnel corporate money into elections for the state legislature. This money was instrumental in providing the Republicans with a majority in the legislature. They used this new-found status to ram through redistricting (remember the run-away legislature?). The redistricting gave the GOP five extra seats in the current congress. At slightly over one percent of the entire house this is a consequential distortion of national politics. If this scandal really does develop fully, it will clearly demonstrate that any talk the Republicans spout about 'returning morality to government' is pure hooey. This crowd clearly cares about nothing but power.
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