In the
WaPo and everywhere else, the news is this:
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), a primary architect of the Republican majority
who became one of the most powerful and feared leaders in Washington,
said this morning that he will give up his seat rather than face a
reelection fight that appears increasingly unwinnable.
Early in his career in the House, Delay, an exterminator, persuaded the then-Democratic leadership to fumigate the roach-ridden Longworth House Office Building. Then he helped lead the 1994 fumigation of Dems from the House. Now, through his own hubris and with a push from prosecutors, he's gone.
But Delay is not the whole problem. He was an architect, a leader of the corrupt way business is done in Washington. Yet, Delay did not do this himself. The Senate's recent failure to enact tough ethics and lobbying rules is just the latest indication that the rest of Congress has not learned from the Abramoff-Delay scandal. Too many Members of Congress are under the delusion that those men were an aberration.
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