Department of unnecessary lengths

After this foolishness, we finally have a resolution which proves four things. 1) Tom DeLay believes in a complete absence of partisan influence when that partisan influence isn't his, otherwise game on. 2) Two can play at that game you dishonest motherfucker. 3) Politics has become, not more partisan, but more craven than ever before; and so now we've gone through a bunch of bullshit for what should have been the relatively simple matter of choosing a judge for a criminal matter after an indictment has been handed down. 4) Despite all this, even some Texas Republicans are honorable men who do credit to their profession from time to time (I'm looking at you Justice Jefferson, you sly dog).