DeLay Increasingly Unlikely to Regain Leadership Position
Even if Representative Tom DeLay escapes justice for his crimes, a growing, and increasingly vocal, number of Republicans have no interest in seeing him ever return to the leadership. "Ethical leadership is the foundation of trust with our constituents, and my leadership is not hearing that," Republican Rep. Chris Shays understated. DeLay's supporters argue that the fact that he is only facing one felony charge suggests a partisan prosecutor...and, obviously, everyone else who is facing a felony charge is facing one just because of a partisan prosecutor.
DeLay needs not only to escape justice; he also needs to regain his leadership post if he is to have any reasonable expectation of re-election. Recent polls show him trailing a generic Democrat by 13%. It seems the voters in his own district, those who supposedly know him best, don't believe that the charges of his criminality are ill-founded. A man with any shame would simply resign, and move to some far-off foreign land, after all the revelations of misdeeds that have emerged against his name. But as a guy who has spent much of his life with repulsive insects, and before that worked as an exterminator, Rep. DeLay obviously has no sense of shame.
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