The Hammer is turning on his fellow Republicans:
The former No. 2 House leader criticized his Republican colleagues for "panic, depression and woe-is-me-ism," and predicted they will lose control in November "if they continue the attitude they have right now."Of course, none of the GOP's problems have anything to do with the culture of corruption that DeLay spearheaded. He's an innocent man.
But while we're on the culture of corruption, today, in the Washington Post, we learn that DeLay's wife had a nice little retirement package set up by a lobbyist pal:
A registered lobbyist opened a retirement account in the late 1990s for the wife of then-House Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and contributed thousands of dollars to it while also paying her a salary to work for him from her home in Texas, according to sources, documents and DeLay's attorney, Richard Cullen.
The account represents a small portion of the income that DeLay's family received from entities at least partly controlled by lobbyist Edwin A. Buckham. But the disclosure of its origin adds to what was previously known about the benefits DeLay's family received from its association with Buckham, and it brings the total over the past seven years to about half a million dollars.
