DeLay Warrant Issued

OK. I know it’s wrong to take pleasure in others’ misfortunes, but news of the arrest warrant issued for DeLay just makes me feel all warm and toasty inside.

Today a Texas court issued a warrant for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s arrest, and set an initial $10,000 bail as a routine step before his first court appearance on conspiracy and state money laundering charges.

Travis County court officials said DeLay was ordered to appear at the Fort Bend County, Texas, jail for booking, where he’d likely be fingerprinted and photographed. DeLay’s lawyers had hoped to avoid such a spectacle.

Yeah, I just bet the wanted to avoid that spectacle. I wonder what the photos of the “Tom DeLay Perp Walk” will look like. I’m guessing he’ll be in a suit, with his hands cuffed in front of him and his coat thrown over the the cuffs, with two law enforcement officers on each arm. We can hope, but I know he won’t spend much time at all in jail. He’ll probably pay his bail, turn around and walk right back out of the courthouse. Still, it feels good.

With the news that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will not be filing a report on his investigation of the Plame leak, it’s increasingly likely that we’ll see indictments coming down in the next week or so. We know he’s got Karl Rove and Scooter Libby in his crosshairs. And Rove has been skipping fundraisers and canceling appearances left and right. Toss in the rumors of a Cheney resignation, and the question of what the President knew and when he knew it, and it begins to feel a lot like Xmas is coming early this year.

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