Yeah. There is a lot of wishful thinking going on here. You’re wish is in the micrcosm of one charge. There is an ocean full of fish. You just have to catch one, make a deal to release him back into the water, if he tells you where his buddies are..Unravel the twisted knot of complicity and the whole school of mackeral goes into the net.

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The last time the wires buzzed this loud  that Tom DeLay would be indicted and would step down from his leadership post in the House  the scuttlebutters got it right.

That’s about all that they got right, as it looks like Ronnie Earle is a vindictive partisan.

Witness the changes at the Austin American Statesman since the indictment(s) came down:

September 30, 2005: “Judgment of DeLay by the courts is yet to come, but the political system’s verdict is in. He’s a dead man walking.”

October 5, 2005: Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle has added several more acts to the already circus-like investigation of alleged Republican campaign funding illegalities.

“The latest act unfolded on Tuesday afternoon when Earle disclosed that he had gone grand jury shopping on Friday after an indictment against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, which was returned last Wednesday, was questioned for its legality.

“Working on its last day, a second grand jury declined to indict DeLay on Friday. Earle’s office said it received new information over the weekend, so it went to yet a third grand jury empaneled on Monday, the last possible day under the statute of limitations. That grand jury returned the new indictments.

“Earle’s panicked rush lends credence to those who complain that he is a partisan playing politics with the grand jury, and it gives ammunition to critics who argue that he has been hapless in his three-year probe.”

Funny, in all of his gloating, I don’t believe Oliver has mentioned these recent developments. Oh, but if the shoe was on a Republican D.A.’s foot, we’d hear of nothing else but “filthy cons,” “whores,” “stupidity,” “liars,” “racists,” and other charming epithets of the “culture of hooliganism.”