Why I'm Not Jumping on the DeLay Ditching Bandwagon

I've said this before but given how the noise is getting louder and louder (mostly from the GOP, just as it was really the GOP who chuted Trent Lott), I'll say it again. I want to keep this snake in plain sight.

He has tainted the entire party and process and even if he's drawn and quartered today, he's the force of the GOP in 2006, 2008 and beyond. Just as we're stuck with Bush until January something 2009, let Tom DeLay get to re-election and take his chances. I don't think he'll be returned to the House even though he's in a GOP centric, GOP redistricted area. I believe even the people of Texas are sick to death of all the snake bites and venom.

So yes, there are many, many, many petitions circulating to make Cap Hill look at him more closely (good) and many more demanding his resignation. But if this titular head is chopped off now, we've still got a Congress driven by people who don't mind judges being threatened, your rights being trampled, a White House that just can't spend enough on pork to pals, and a general sense that taxpayers need to shut up and pay their toll but only corporations matter. We'll just PRETEND this all changed with DeLay's removal.

So let's keep the head attached to this rattlesnake, shall we?