DeLay and Hastert

OK, it's time for Hastert to step up and go down too. As reported here, the changes to the House Ethics Committee rules that now allow a lack of a majority to kill an investigation(this panel is 5R and 5D, so if all 5Rs choose not to pursue an action, it just never gets going) came straight out of Hastert's office without any notification of the Dems. Pure politics. What the Times has failed to mention again is that Lamar Smith, one of the Rs on the Committee, has given $10,000 to DeLay's legal defense fund and Tom Cole, another member of the Committee, has given $5,000.

Now, let me point out that if you go to the second link, it is a Times story...From March 12!. I don't understand how you can do a report on the Ethics Committee, as in the first link, without mentioning the information found in the seccond. It is germane as hell, you guys.