I should just like to say that I am sorry to see Tom DeLay go. He was a damn good fighting conservative, and it’s a shame. I stood up for him once in the pages of National Review, when some fool Justice of the United States Supreme Court had scoffed at him for having run an exterminating firm:

“It is a curious feature of political vituperation in this country that a president who has been a lawyer is never made fun of on that account, while a president who has followed any other trade is never allowed to forget it. Reagan was scoffed at for having been an actor, Truman for his adventures in haberdashery, Jimmy Carter for his career as a peanut farmer. Yet neither Coolidge, the most-mocked of all modern presidents, nor Nixon, the most reviled, ever had it held against them, even by the worst of their many detractors, that they had been working lawyers.”

Good luck, Tom.