http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/weekinreview/02kornblut.html?hp&ex=1128225600&en=55a9a909107f3575&ei=5094&partner=homepageThe War Against Tom DeLay
By ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: October 2, 2005
WASHINGTON
To hear Tom DeLay tell it, his indictment last week by a Texas grand jury resulted from a vast left-wing conspiracy - the culmination of years of relentless pursuit by Democrats who, in Mr. DeLay's words, "drug my name through the mud."
Democrats, of course, brushed the accusation aside, saying Mr. Delay, a Texas Republican, had only himself to blame for the conspiracy charge that forced him to step aside as the House majority leader.
But in fact an extensive network of forces has been aligned against Mr. DeLay - a kaleidoscope of activists and liberals, clean-government advocates and legal experts, even a smattering of resentful conservatives and Republican moderates, all bound by their desire to see him stopped.
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Regardless of how the criminal case unfolds, it is clear that Mr. Delay's persona has produced a cottage industry of forces that trace his every step and draw negative public attention to it.
<snip>Lots more there that I wanted to quote -- and whatever Republicans might say about this being a Democratic conspiracy, it's clear that clean-government groups and many Republicans are also opposed to what DeLay's been doing. Kornblut quotes MoveOn's Tom Matzzie saying that it's entirely DeLay's own undoing that the good-government groups focused on him, and David Donnelly of the Public Campaign Action Fund saying that his organization is critical of those in power because money flows to them (and of course no one's tried harder to make certain money flowed only to the GOP than DeLay has).
The article also has a great photo of that classic Democracy for America billboard, the one that reads:
Lobbyists sent Tom DeLay golfing; all you got was this billboard.
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