The vast left-wing conspiracy: Brought to you by George Soros

Tom DeLay, in the Moonie Times:

Asked if he had ever crossed the line of ethical behavior, Mr. DeLay said: " 'Ever' is a very strong word. Let me start out by saying, you can never find anything that I have done for personal gain. Period."

Mr. DeLay also lashed out at newspapers and magazines that have published what he said were "old news" stories about his foreign travel, the structure of his political action committee and his relationships to lobbyists. He criticized the New York Times in particular, whose op-ed page actively sought a major Republican to write a piece critical of Mr. DeLay.

"That's activist journalism," Mr. DeLay said. "Somebody ought to look at the organizations and ask the New York Times, The Washington Post, the L.A. Times, Time, Newsweek, AP, why they're spending all these resources they are. ... Are they collaborating with all these organizations that are funded by George Soros?"

Inquiring minds want...well...no, we really know already.

And remember when Tom helped his buddies in the Texas legislature track a plane used by Democrats to flee Texas rather than provide a quorum for passage of a redrawing of congressional districts in the state? No big deal. Tom now says he coulda shoulda woulda just looked it up on the internets.

"I was called by a constituent, as I see it — the speaker of the House of the Texas legislature — wanting me to find an airplane, and gave me the tail number," he said. "I asked a staffer to do it, called it up, there's nothing wrong with that. And there's nothing unethical about that. My job is to interface with the federal government."

Mr. DeLay named just one thing he would have done differently: "What I should have done is turned around to my Internet and looked it up."

Howie the Putz claims that "the press won't let this die." Hmph. It seems to me that DeLay is the one who is keeping this alive through absurd diversion tactics. He's like one of those poor mice he used to exterminate, and has eaten just enough poison to force him to crawl out from the woodwork, but his death throe continues for all to watch.