Delay'd

Yet another aide of Tom DeLay decides to put his name in the Grand Old Police Blotter:

Tony Rudy, DeLay's former deputy chief of staff, entered the guilty plea to one count of conspiracy in federal court as part of a deal with U.S. Justice Department prosecutors in which he has agreed to tell all he knows.

Rudy worked for DeLay from 1995 through 2000, while DeLay was a Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rudy then joined Abramoff as a lobbyist. They conspired together to influence members of Congress, prosecutors said.

Beginning in 1997 and continuing while he worked for DeLay, Rudy accepted numerous items of value from Abramoff and others while he repeatedly took official action on their behalf, prosecutors said.

Rudy accepted $86,000 from Abramoff while working as a DeLay staffer, according to the court documents. In return, Rudy asked lawmakers to vote against an Internet-gambling bill that would have harmed one of Abramoff's clients.

Within a year of leaving DeLay's office, Rudy communicated with employees still in the office, seeking to influence official action, prosecutors said.

Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio is alluded to in Rudy's indictment, as he was in Abramoff's. Are we still going to hear that this was a bipartisan scandal that affected both parties equally? Because if you're keeping track of the indictments and those named therein, all subjects of this investigation are Republican. It's simply ludicrous to think otherwise.

I'm sure this is all part of that War on Christians they had the conference about the other day. I mean, clearly these activist judges are going outside accepted Judeo-Christian law, which has NOTHING about lobbyists and golf trips in it!