[Note: This is a cross post from MyDD, from June 9, 2006 that I thought would be appreciated here. This is the last of the older posts- so don't worry, a new one is on its way!]
In listening to Tom DeLay's farewell address to the House, I was struck to hear him list three ways to leave Congress: defeat, death, and retirement. He neglected to mention the fourth avenue, which applied to him: disgrace.
Watching this "historic presentation," I looked to my far right and spied Bob Ney (his face extremely red and discolored) sitting next to "Mean Jean" Schmidt (the woman who attacked Jack Murtha) and Deborah Pryce, the fourthranking Republican under extreme assault. I wondered. "What must be going through their minds?"
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