The imperious Texan is an increasing embarrassment to his party, turning its majority into an undisguised fountain of patronage and an ideological cudgel while skirting the bounds of campaign law. The underlying deed that prompted the Texas indictment is reason enough for him to relinquish leadership. Mr. DeLay was open in his stratagem of using his federal clout to game state elections in Texas and force an unusual and legally dubious gerrymander to cushion the Republican Congressional majority. Mr. DeLay's tooth-and-claw tactics taint his whole party.
The New York Times thinks that DeLay is an embarrasment because of the above.
No, actually, it's why the Republicans like him.
Because the whole PARTY is corrupt.
YES, he has given the "an undisguised fountain of patronage and an ideological cudgel while skirting the bounds of campaign law." And what, exactly, has it cost them? They got a "fountain and patronage" and "an ideological cudgel" - and LOST NOTHING.
YES, he "used using his federal clout to game state elections in Texas and force an unusual and legally dubious gerrymander to cushion the Republican Congressional majority." And what, exactly, has it cost them? The got "gamed elections" and a "Republican Congressional majority" - and LOST NOTHING.
DeLay's corruption has been the goose that laid the Republican eggs.
They like DeLay BECAUSE he's corrupt. If he WASN'T corrupt, they'd have less money and power.
Pretty damned obvious, and you'd think a major newspaper would get it.
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