DeLay’s Screwed

If there was any question, now that there’s a paper trail, I think we can say that Tom DeLay probably won’t be making it to the general election in 2006 an, well, that just sucks for Democrats because the guy is like gold.

What’s interesting is where the info is coming from because clearly either Abramoff or DeLay or both are being targeted or this kind of stuff wouldn’t be that easy to locate. Then again, if you play by the rules, there’s nothing to hide from…

The airfare to London and Scotland in 2000 for then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was charged to an American Express card issued to Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal and tax probe, according to two sources who know Abramoff’s credit card account number and to a copy of a travel invoice displaying that number.

DeLay’s expenses during the same trip for food, phone calls and other items at a golf course hotel in Scotland were billed to a different credit card also used on the trip by a second registered Washington lobbyist, Edwin A. Buckham, according to receipts documenting that portion of the trip.