The Right is Busy Handing Tom DeLay Anchors

Lest anyone get the mistaken notion that the heat has gone from simmering to a hard boil under Tom DeLay because either:

* regular Americans finally got his number and decided to have it disconnected, or
* "the left" managed to out him

Instead, what we're seeing is what we saw with Trent Lott around the time of ol Strom Thurmond's death. The ranking GOP has decided to feed the media anything and everything it can to distance themselves from the Bug Man.

Bob Novak (affectionately known as "Ol Douchebag" when he's not seen as a traitor for outing a CIA operative) and others have hinted in columns that the right is getting very concerned about the 2006 election cycle in light of Bush's War on AARP, Congress' behavior on the Terri Schiavo case, and a president whose approval ratings are headed into negative numbers.

As I keep saying, I'd rather DeLay stay in place because his dance card has been pulled into the public view. Ousting him from Congress just puts less restrictions on him, and Tom knows where too many bodies are buried to ever serve time for his misdeeds. As someone with a pathological fear of snakes, I can tell you that I've finally learned I'd rather see them so I know where they are and can monitor their behavior.