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Business as Usual for Tom DeLay
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Clearly I've become a victim of outrage fatigue. Between Tom DeLay inserting $1.5 billion in federal largesse to Sugar Land-based businesses (hat tip to Atrios), and the Dracula Congress set for another late-night session of arm twisting and letting those textile state Republicans fly home to avoid voting for or against DR-CAFTA, I really don't see anything out of the ordinary. After Congress tried to abolish all laws in Southern California, then Justice officials reduced their tobacco settlement by $120 billion dollars, it's not really worth it to get your undies in a wad over ten figures for some DeLay cronies.

The abuse of the conference process, plus the late-night votes, make for great 2006 bulletin board material. I mean, really, someone should be running focus groups to figure out which piece of Republican foul play most frustrates the American public so the ads hit as hard as possible. All this recklessness makes me wonder: do DeLay, Blunt, and the rest of this gang just sit around in their Congressional offices at night, cackling "I am invEEEncible!" to themselves, while not noticing that right behind them sits a huge vat of electoral liquid nitrogen that's set to burst in fifteen months?

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Last updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 07:06 27 July 2005