DeLay is being distanced by more Republicans

and now it appears that Jack Abramoff, DeLay's partner in many of these events, may soon be speaking out.

"Everybody is lying," Abramoff told a former colleague. There are e-mails and records that will implicate others, he said. He was noticeably caustic about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. For years, nobody on Washington's K Street corridor was closer to DeLay than Abramoff.

His time in the leadership of the Republicans appears to be very limited.