DeLay In Email: It Ain't Me, Babe (Nope, He Still Doesn't Get It)

The Washington Post reports that Tom DeLay emailed an extremely lengthy missive defending himself (running SIX pages, single-spaced) to supporters in his suburban Houston district. Is somebody getting desperate? The gist of the email: DeLay good; Democrats bad.

Titled "What The Press Isn't Telling You," it goes on to blame the Democrats for his numerous admonishments last year and his current pile-up of ethical doo-doos and when it isn't blaming the Dems it blames the Dem-loving media. And everyone's lying about why the three Republicans who crossed party lines to uphold basic standards on the ethics committee by admonishing DeLay were kicked off: it had nothing to do with him. DeLay has never done anything wrong in the past; he ain't doing anything wrong in the present and he's not going to do anything wrong in the future.

Guess Newt isn't exactly on speed-dial with this guy. Let's hope this time the stonewalling doesn't pay off.