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Originally posted by ltl/fb
But you go ahead and think this is going to be the last nail in the coffin. I'm trying to protect you from the inevitable disappointment.
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I really would rather it wasn't the last nail in the coffin. I think that there are
larger points to be made about DeLay and the GOP that will be lost if he steps down soon:
- DeLay's potentially illegal dealings with lobbyists are just coextensive with much more widespread brands of behavior that, while often perfectly legal, are no more morally praiseworthy. The issue here is the rise of a Republican Party that in its House, Senate, and White House incarnations is wholly a prisoner of corporate interests and has abandoned any pretense of ideological principle in an effort to put policy up for sale to the highest bidder. The big game here is hundreds of billions in corporate subsidies masquerading as Medicare reform; massive tax cuts; and the failure to properly enforce labor, environmental, tax, and consumer-protection laws. The real payoffs aren't junkets but the hundreds of millions of dollars that finance the entire conservative institutional apparatus.
While I'm as attuned as the next guy to the frisson of excitement and shudders of pleasure around here that come every time we get another illicit glimpse of DeLay's tawdry dealings, you don't want some things to come to a delightful climax too soon.
