DeLay Is Done

The straw that broke his back appears to be either his crashing poll numbers, the guilty plea of top aid Tony C. Rudy or his own ongoing corruption investigation. In the end it doesn't matter, he is done.

DeLay, who will turn 59 on Saturday, did not say precisely when he would step down, but under Texas law he must either die, be convicted of a felony, or move out of his district to be removed from the November ballot.

The saddest part of this story is, the departure of DeLay will do little to clean the house. There are so many more who are as willing to bend and pervert the laws for their own gains.

A wholesale cleaning is still needed.

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