Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay: Mining the GOP for Comedy Gold

Sun Jan 8, 2:11 PM ET

The notion that the temperate puritans of the GOP are now going to clean up Dodge having caught their first fetid whiff of Tom Delay's imprudence is a real corker.

Let's recall that when the House Ethics Committee found DeLay guilty not one but three times of ethics violations,
Dennis Hastert and the GOP responded by removing the GOP Chairman Joel Hefley and the other uncooperative GOP committee members and replacing them with more morally pliant DeLay henchmen. They then changed the House rules in 2004 to accommodate DeLay's continued leadership despite his quite obvious violation of the regulations the Republicans had enacted like shrieking vestals during the Clinton era.

I've no doubt the cranky Hefley was the first to sign the petition for DeLay's ouster; he was also the only Republican who supported the bill to repeal the changes to House rules that allowed DeLay to retain his sovereignty while under indictment. But lest anyone want to make Hefley a hero remember that he had initially voted for the changes the first time around -- his Come to Jesus moment had more to do with his removal from a powerful committee chair than any tender pangs of conscience.

There is not one member of the GOP in any position to be on a high horse over this one.

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How does one keep track of all the scandels? Crooks everywhere you look.

to dig through it soon.