House Majority Whipped

Now it can be told. Tom DeLay is a wuuuuuuusssssss.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representative Majority Leader Tom DeLay accused NBC on Thursday of slurring his name by including an unflattering reference to him on the NBC police drama "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."

DeLay's name surfaced on Wednesday night on the show's season finale, which centered on the fictional slayings of two judges by suspected right-wing extremists.

In the episode, police are frustrated by a lack of clues, leading one officer to quip, "Maybe we should put out an APB (all-points-bulletin) for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt."

In a letter to NBC Universal Television Group President Jeff Zucker, DeLay wrote: "This manipulation of my name and trivialization of the sensitive issue of judicial security represents a reckless disregard for the suffering initiated by recent tragedies and a great disservice to public discourse."

Um, and if anyone can be accused of "a reckless disregard for the suffering 'initiated' (huh?) by recent tragedies," well, that would be Bug Boy.

Is this victimization thing working for DeLay? Do his remaining supporters appreciate his endless public blubbering?

Meanwhile, the drumbeats down in Texas appear to be getting closer.