Re-posted from Jim Hightower’s hightowerlowdown.org:
The day before the election, I sensed a strange karma, as though some diabolical political force was settling across the country like a heavy, almost suffocating fog. What could it be, what would it portend for the election… and beyond?
Then it came to me: The spirit of Tom DeLay was loose on the land!
The former house Republican leader, the nasty partisan who became known as The Hammer for nailing the GOP congress and K Street lobbyists into one seamless unit, the ethics-free floor leader during George W’s first term who now stands convicted of unabashedly collecting corporate campaign cash in exchange for moving corporate legislation-that guy.
On election eve, as our nation’s first $4 billion congressional campaign drew to a close, an election soaked in the corrupting power of corporate money-Tom DeLay stood in the dock of a Texas courtroom. November 1st was the opening day of his trial for secretly and illegally funneling corporate funds into several 2002 Lone Star legislative elections. Just before Thanksgiving, the jury convicted The Hammer. How’s that for karma?
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