Tom DeLay Hits The Trifecta On Sunday Morning News Shows

Yes, Tom DeLay's ethical morass and hate-filled speech was the focus on all three major Sunday morning news shows. "Meet The Press" did the best job and Rep. Barney Frank had the best line. He said he'd been the focus of ethics probes fifteen years ago because he'd "behaved inappropriately." But here's the difference.

"I changed my behavior," said Frank. "Tom DeLay changed the ethics committee."

As everyone knows, DeLay was admonished three times in 2004 for ethical lapses, more than any other politician, I believe. But as Frank points out, instead of cleaning up his house, DeLay hammered the Republicans into weakening the Ethics Committee, reverting to the rules they'd just changed in 1997, making it far more difficult to bring an ethics investigation forward and purging the committee of the three Republicans who dared to stand up for ethical behavior and had DeLay slapped on the wrist.