... Tom DeLay is a free man though he is deeply in debt from the protracted litigation and his political career lies in ruins.
The words "political career" don't even belong in the same sentence. We may have liked his politics, but this guy was in public office for 27 freaking years (21+ in Congress) before he resigned in 2006.
You sleep with dogs, you're likely to end up with fleas. Cry me a river, Tom.
I'm not seeing a whole lot to like. Under his "leadership" we got the largest expansion of medicare since LBJ, no child left behind and the patriot act. Like I said before, if he's useful in scaling back leviathan, great. Otherwise he could drop off the face of the earth tomorrow and the world we be just that much lighter without him.