Hammer Time!

Quite possibly my least favorite politician during my time in Washington was Tom DeLay (thankfully Sarah Palin was just a mayor of a small town in Alaska). So you can imagine my glee that "The Hammer" was just found guilty by a jury of his peers for money laundering.

But this quote was almost too much:

"I still maintain that I am innocent, that the criminalization of politics undermines our very system, and I'm very disappointed in the outcome. But you know, it is what it is, and we will carry on and maybe we can get it before people who understand the law."

I guess DeLay can drop the faux man of people schtick that he and his GOP cohorts continually trumpet now that he is no longer running for office. His contempt for the people on the jury is mixed with an elitism that would make even a sociology professor from Harvard blush.

Well if there is one thing the policies of DeLay and his Texas GOP allies have supported it is the state's prisons. Now he'll get to reap the benefits of his ardent advocacy for a robust and active criminal justice...Texas style.