Tom (no fat left to cut in the federal budget) DeLay
vents about the criminalization of politics in his new book, an
excerpt of which is up at Townhall:
What I did not expect was a concerted
effort to destroy me legally, financially, and personally. I have
now spent millions of dollars in lawyers' fees to answer the lies
of the left. I have taken hours away from doing the nation's
business to work through the laborious process of responding to
legal charges that my liberal opponents knew were untrue and
frivolous when they first filed them. I have watched my family
suffer under the burden of not just my political misfortunes-an
expected reality in a politician's family-but of the threat of
material destruction, imprisonment, and ruin. This should not be
what happens to someone who has defended his political ideals,
aggressively, yes, but honorably. A congressman serves his nation
by serving his values with passion, and the nation only suffers
when partisanship is punished with personal destruction.
topics:
Business, Federal Budget, Law
