I have a new piece, up soon, about a conversation yesterday with Tom DeLay. Among other things, DeLay told me that he commissioned a poll last week before deciding to withdraw his name from the ballot in Texas’ 22nd district; that his indictment by Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle has basically determined the timing of his political moves in the last year; and that he is writing a book with the tentative title No Retreat, No Surrender: The American Passion of Tom DeLay. And he is still not a big fan of the judiciary. After the Texas Republican party’s arguments in the ballot case were rejected, in the end by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, DeLay told me, “You can always count on the judiciary to make stupid rulings. Not only stupid, but dangerous.”