No Tears for Tom DeLay
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announced his resignation today, surrendering to the legal tidal wave that had made his prospects for re-election, even in Texas, rather dicey. He was George W. Bush's chief enabler, particularly during the 2000 election. We can only hope that the Exerminator (his former profession) gets a quick trip to state prison. He will go to prison for a Capone-like conviction for something far less than he deserves (mobster Al Capone went to prison not for murder, but for tax evasion). Ol' Tom wasn't a murderer, unless you count American democracy as a victim. The 2000 election, I predict, will come to be seen as one of the greatest political atrocities in our history. George W. Bush wasn't meant to win. Everything that has happened since--the Iraq invasion, the war on the environment, the refusal to recognize global warming, the theocracy--are like one of those film fantasy sequences of what would have happened if history had turned out differently. Except it's real. All too real.