RIGHTWINGSPARKLE

What Ronnie Earle wanted so much finally happened. Delay's mugshot. You have to give Delay some credit for smiling here like he doesn't have a care in the world. Because you know inside he is seething. Delay was fingerprinted, photographed and released on $10,000 bail on conspiracy and money-laundering charges today.

Now remember, Texas prosecutor offered DeLay a deal to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and save his job as majority leader, but DeLay chose to fight felony charges instead.
Now Delay may be many things, but stupid aint one of them. It seems he felt pretty confident that he hadn't done anything wrong, or why not take the misdemeanor charge?

This is like something out of a bad Texas B movie. Delay is the big powerful Republican Washington politician and Democrat Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle (who just seems like a little rat, doesn't he?) is the man determined to bring him down.

In plain language, a Texas political action committee started by DeLay sent corporate money to the Republican National Committee in Washington -— and that the RNC sent the funds back to Texas for the legislative candidates.

That's it.

Doesn't this happen ALL THE TIME? People send money in to the DNC or the RNC and know that those guys are get the money back to the candidates in their home state in some way. How could that be illegal?

Maybe it is. It seems it wasn't when Delay did it, but who knows? It's still the wild wild west out here in so many ways. I keep expecting Earle and Delay to meet at noon for a gunfight.