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Texas-sized problem: Tom DeLay deserves whatever he gets. But he deserved it several years ago. And therein lies the problem.
American Prospect, The, May, 2005 by Tomasky, Michael
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ON SUCCESSIVE DAYS IN MID-NOVEMBER 2002, Tom DeLay was elected House majority leader, replacing the retired Dick Armey, and Nancy Pelosi was chosen as the House Democrats' leader, succeeding Dick Gephardt. One of those had amassed a capable but relatively quiet record of service in the House of Representatives, stirring controversy only once (by supporting the primary opponent of a longtime congressional incumbent from Michigan).
The other had called the Environmental Protection Agency "the Gestapo of government"; had denounced the Nobel Chemistry Prize, after it was ...
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