This post by Legal Fiction (one of my very favorite blogs) is good for two wholly independent reasons. First, it gives a great analysis of the fallout, how Democrats should (and shouldn’t) capitalize, and the overall systemic nature of corruption in the Washington Halls of Power (IE, don’t fetishize DeLay).
Second, there’s this passage at the end:
Finally, in light of the Blunt insurgency, it’s clear that Ronnie Earle didn’t listen to the State Department in deciding to take out Tom DeLay. Surely he knew that the Republican caucus was only stable because it was ruled by a dictator who bribed and punished those who challenged him. The various ethnic groups (Shays-iites and Sensenbrunnis) have a long history of tension and it was to be expected that civil war would break out after the dictator was removed.
Shays-iites and Sensenbrunnis. I got to remember that (are there Tankurdos as well?).