MORE bad news for Tom DeLay. Despite strong continued support from President Bush, DeLay has now entered into that uneviable area into which politocos often fall where they become instant satirists’ jokes or late night punchlines. This gives him even less leeway than he has had. More negative developments and he his untouchability and the GOP’s defense of him could take a political toll. Satire card via Kos.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.