Tom DeLay was at the heart of the Jack Abramoff scandal, but it appears he will escape prosecution. How?

During the leadership of Tom DeLay, whose influence peddling was open and inescapable, the Ethics Committee had the distinction of making remarkably cynical twists and turns to keep from actually prosecuting members of the Party of No. In November of 2004, the committee used an old trick with new dog, Delay, a rule originally invented in order to keep a charge against a Democratic offender in effect while excusing its own member who had violated the same standard, non-reciprocity became the innocence factor.

Making both Corporate America and Average America happy has become a very important political skill. And talking to voters in language that appeals to their values while sending coded messages to their corporate masters has become a very refined art form.

Is the Jack Abramoff story winding down or heating up?

Oscar Night 2010! And Jim Bunning revisited.

Tom DeLay thinks that unemployment benefits cause people not to look for work. There is a kernel of truth to this belief, but it completely misses the larger reality of the situation.

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger

In a landmark decision last week, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations could spend unlimited funds to influence American elections, overturning a century of legal precedent. The Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC undermines the integrity of the U.S. government, as President Barack Obama emphasized at his State of the Union address. But the decision also deals a damaging blow to the U.S. economy by encouraging lawmakers to write economic rules that benefit specific companies at the expense of everyone else.