WisPolitics Budget Blog

Last month, a Wall Street Journal editorial jammed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for becoming the “living exemplar of some of {Congress’s} worst habits.”

When the highly read, conservative WSJ Opinion Page fires live rounds at one of their own, perhaps it’s time to blow the bugle and retreat.

DeLay appears to have forgotten the message behind the 1994 Congressional Elections - sweeping Republicans into the majority for the first time since the Eisenhower Administration – Ethics matter.

The WSJ continues;

Whether Mr. DeLay violated the small print of House Ethics or campaign-finance rules is thus largely beside the point. His real fault lies in betraying the broader set of principles that brought him into office, and which, if he continues as before, sooner or later will sweep him out.

As House Republicans clumsily reverse their House Ethics by-laws, they must be yearning for the good ole days of Bob Livingston, who stepped down as speaker-elect, rather than force his Party to rally ‘round him.