Marble Composition

Indictments

The sweet scales of justice, may they fall on this man's head like a jettisoned porto-potty from an overburdened airliner:

Conspiracy counts against two DeLay associates this month raised concerns with DeLay's lawyers, who fear the chances are greater that the majority leader could be charged with being part of the conspiracy. Before these counts, the investigation was more narrowly focused on the state election code.

By expanding the charges to include conspiracy, prosecutors made it possible for the Travis County grand jury to bring charges against DeLay. Otherwise, the grand jury would have lacked jurisdiction under state laws.

People like me follow these things on a granular level, and your sanity sometimes depends on somebody getting caught for, you know, breaking the fucking law. Well, not really, but sometimes it would be nice. I must say I gained some solace from Digby when he wrote this:

Tom Delay, Gorver Norquist, Jack Abramoff, Bob Ney, Tom Davis, Ralph Reed, Karl Rove and a bunch of other high level Republicans have likewise built a byzantine corrupt political machine. And just as the laws of the financial markets cannot be suspended forever, rampant illegal political behavior will eventually bump up against the rule of law.

Amen. And, hope is a real thing, isn't it? (As Ren Hoek tearfully once uttered to his chunky side-kick Stimpy, "What was your dream?")

Let's hope the rule of law brings down the entire Republican shithouse, and somehow Americans can figure out that there is real worth in competant governance.

(Thanks to JM for the tip)

posted by FuzzFinger @ 9/27/2005 08:13:00 PM