Big House Whipping Boy

It took a new grand jury less than 4 hours to pass down new indictments against Tom Delay, which appeared to outrage him:

"Ronnie Earle has stooped to a new low with his brand of prosecutorial abuse," DeLay said in a statement. "He is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a 'do-over' since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate. This is an abomination of justice."

Right. Tom's on his way to becoming Minority Whipping Boy of the Big House. But in true Republican form, he won't be going down alone:

It seems that while enjoying a lobbyist funded european junket to arrange pay-to-play favors from the Republican controlled Congress (that'd be "selling influence"), one of the 'lobbyists' he met with was former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Oops.

It was announced today that Mrs. Thatcher will be questioned by police as part of the corruption probe which has forced DeLay to step down.

Hope your friends remember you, Tom, when you're being traded for cigarettes in a West Texas Big House.

Bitch.