Sheesh, this guy is just continuing to take up space in my blog. But ah I must report it.

The latest from capitol hill:

DeLay Apologizes for Schiavo Case Rhetoric

Yeah it looks like DeLay has realized the shit storm around him, and it trying to soften the blow. Well good luck you bastard!

You know it must be bad when even shrub is distancing himself from you. Although apparently you two haven't really gotten along all too well in the past.

"...White House spokesman Scott McClellan said President Bush considers the Texas Republican, who is battling ethics allegations, a friend, but suggested that the majority leader is more of a business associate than a social pal.

'I think there are different levels of friendship with anybody,' McClellan said.

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Bush and DeLay have had a prickly relationship going back to Bush's assertion in 1999 that House Republicans were trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor. When Bush pushed the House to pass a tax benefit for low-income families with children in 2003, DeLay told reporters, 'Last time I checked, he didn't have a vote,' referring to the president."

Well well well, apparently shrub has a decent bone in his body, correctly pointing out in 1999 the real motives of the republicans in the House.

Anyways, back to the point.

"House Majority Leader Tom DeLay apologized Wednesday for using overheated rhetoric on the day Terri Schiavo died, but refused to say whether he supports impeachment of the judges who ruled in her case.

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DeLay seemed at pains to soften, if slightly, his rhetoric of March 31, when Schiavo died despite an extraordinary political and legal effort to save her life.

'I believe in an independent judiciary. I repeat, of course I believe in an independent judiciary,' DeLay said.

At the same time, he added, the Constitution gives Congress power to oversee the courts.

'We set up the courts. We can unset the courts. We have the power of the purse,' DeLay said."

Well softening a little, yeah. I wasn't aware that he "set up" the courts, I thought it was the presidents of the time. But I guess they do approve or disapprove, but anyways. At least he claims that he believes in and independent judiciary, that is somewhat comforting.

But the best news is that DeLay now says that he is ready to lay it out there to the ethics committee.

"DeLay said at the news conference that he was eager to appear before the leaders of the House ethics committee and give 'everything I have' in connection with allegations of misconduct."

Well great. Except that DeLay has replaced the ethics committee members who voted for his censures, with members more to his liking, and had the republican house change some of the ethics rules.

Lovely.

And the game goes on.