Clarification

For the record, I don't know if Tom Delay was corrupt or not, and I certainly don't think the incompetent Ronnie Earle will prove so, but Delay did lay down with snakes and I don't feel that bad that he is retiring. Even if he were completely innocent, his complete lack of financial discipline and Washington coziness is enough to get him ousted just for hypocrisy. He became a symbol of the corruption and graft permeating Washington, and by associating with that element, he signed his own warrant. America can do better.
For the record, we will have a "Groundhog Day" of Delays using a corrupt system to enrich themselves until we remove the ceaseless flow of unaccounted money flowing through that rotting, fetid swamp they call Washington DC.