Actually, if the story is that Earle needed the new indictments because the old ones were in some danger of being thrown out on a technicality, this isn't quite as much fun as possible. More fun: The indictments get quashed. DeLay is again eligible to serve in a leadership post, and he comes back and gets all over Roy Blunt like the drug kingpin on his lawyer at the end of Traffic. ("You had it all figured out. You move into my house. You raise my kids. You sleep with my wife. It was a good plan, Arnie.") Massive bloodshed. Then Earle hits him with the money-laundering indictment.
I'm just sitting here giggling quietly to myself.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 3-05 4:37 PM
:-)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 3-05 4:48 PM
Yippee!
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 3-05 4:48 PM
Cue up the Snoopy Dance again?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 3-05 5:09 PM
One of the consequences of Ivy anti-Semitism was a diffusion of Jewish students into schools like Iowa, where my father met his first Jew.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 10- 3-05 6:58 PM
I know it's hard to comment in the proper thread. How many Jews did your father end up with?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10- 3-05 7:00 PM
Actually, if the story is that Earle needed the new indictments because the old ones were in some danger of being thrown out on a technicality, this isn't quite as much fun as possible. More fun: The indictments get quashed. DeLay is again eligible to serve in a leadership post, and he comes back and gets all over Roy Blunt like the drug kingpin on his lawyer at the end of Traffic. ("You had it all figured out. You move into my house. You raise my kids. You sleep with my wife. It was a good plan, Arnie.") Massive bloodshed. Then Earle hits him with the money-laundering indictment.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 3-05 11:25 PM
Not very many. He returned to the small town environment. He remained philo-Semitic and anti-Trinitarian, though.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 10- 4-05 7:21 AM