Without Delay

This stuff about Delay is really, really good news.  He is a bad bad little toady man and he looks like he might be on his way out.  There have been front page articles and editorials about his ethics problems (see yesterday's WaPo, today's NYT) and it's not getting any better.  This is great for two main reasons:

If the ethics violations can really stick to Delay, it will mean that maybe, just maybe, they won't be able to play their moral high-ground bullshit.  And then they will become tainted in the eyes of the voters.  If we can hammer home the whole idea that the GOP is corrupt, that will really do a lot of work for us.  Think about what the whiff of dirtiness did to Clinton.  If that can be transferred, in any way, to squeaky clean chimpy, it would be so awesome.  Because the way I see it, there's a certain amount of halo around him - people just don't believe that he's doing all the sleazy, shitty things he's doing.  So if his associates begin to go down, if the scandals actually have some legs, then that might begin to change, and could change the general perception of the administration.

Secondly, Delay is the man who keeps the 'pugs in line.  He cracks the whip and keeps even the moderate 'pugs with a conscience from doing what they know is right.  Without him, there would be more dissent in the ranks, more breaks from the party line (I hope).

So let's tear that mofo down.