Really unbelievable. How on earth the American people stand for this is beyond me. Pompus, self-righteous, and criminal, Delay is a modern day decendant of the Pharisees (but that might be unfair to the Pharisees….the ones that Jesus railed against are the group where Delay came from)

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In the modern GOP, power trumps the rule of law. The ends justify the (illegal) means. And in case anyone wonders why that rule existed in the first place:
House Republicans in 1993 — trying to underscore the ethics problems of Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.), then-chairman of the Ways and Means Committee — adopted the rule that requires a party leader to surrender his or her post if indicted by any grand jury, federal or state.
(Via the DCCC blog.)