What is it with Republican crooks and their need to hide behind the skirts of their women?
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) is calling on the Justice Department either to drop its investigation of his wife and former political associates or else to bring charges quickly.
DeLay said he has given the FBI documents exonerating his wife, but an associate of the former lawmaker said that agents have followed up with a fresh round of subpoenas.
The inquiry appears to be focused on determining whether DeLay’s wife, Christine, earned her pay from two organizations controlled by Ed Buckham, a lobbyist once closely affiliated with the former Republican leader, according to sources interviewed by federal investigators. Several former employees of the groups have received subpoenas for documents, some in the past few weeks.
That's reminiscent, of course, of the recent FBI raids on the businesses of the wives of fellow Republicans Rick Renzi and John Doolittle.
I haven't really figured out yet whether my position on graft is more the "traditional values" kind -- from the days when men were men, and they didn't hide their bribes in their wives' petticoats -- or the "progressive" kind, where women on the take get to keep their ill-gotten gains for themselves, instead of just being a pass-through to support their husbands' foppish Euro-golfing and Freudian cigar puffing habits.
Who would've guessed, back in the heady days of of the "Republican Revolution," when steakhouses, smokes and stupid neckties were all the rage, that this would all end in the false flag feminization of Republican criminality? What a disappointment!
