What a difference a day makes

From Tuesday...

The House ethics committee could decide soon whether to dig deeper into a complaint that Majority Leader Tom DeLay misused his office for partisan Republican activities.

Two allegations directly involve use of DeLay's congressional office. One accuses him of soliciting corporate contributions in return for assistance on legislation. A second allegation contends he improperly used his staff to contact U.S. aviation authorities and ask them to track down Texas Democratic legislators who had fled the state trying to thwart a DeLay-backed redistricting plan.

The third subject accuses DeLay of using his political action committees to distribute money from corporations to Texas legislative candidates, in violation of state law.

DeLay told reporters Tuesday that "filing frivolous ethics complaints does nothing but undermine the ethics process in this House and undermine this great institution."
-AP, July 20, 2004

To Wednesday...

Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader, invoked Watergate when he described Berger's actions as "just a third-rate burglary."

-The New York Times, July 21, 2004