Don't Mess With Texas...

Or if you do, just make the rules up as you go along.

At least that has been Tom DeLay's operating principles for the last eight years. It looks like it's finally catching up to him.

My brother-in-law first told me about the campaign finance scandal that's (hopefully) about to engulf DeLay. This was a couple weeks ago and I dinked around the Ft. Worth newspaper waiting for more of the story to break, and it never did. Well, it never did until now.

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As an aside, kudos to my brother-in-law for catching this story early on. He told me about when he was coming home from a Robert Earl Keen show and contemplating going to see Willie Nelson later that night. When I hear about I day like that, I really miss living in Texas.

And when I hear any mention of Robert Earl Keen, I think of his song Amarillo Highway. Specifically when he sings:

"I don't wear no Stetson
But I'm willin' to bet son
That I'm as big a Texan as you are."

I run those lyrics through my head and George Bush comes to mind. He may wear a Stetson and vacation at a Texas ranch he bought in 1999, but he is 100% blue-blooded East Coast royalty. But if you drop the ends of your words in a few campaign ads ("I'm askin' for your vote."), who will know the difference?