the conspiracy

tom delay is fighting back by—what else?—attacking dems, calling his indictment part of a left-wing conspiracy.

see, when a dem first lady talks of a right-wing conspiracy, she gets roundly ridiculed, but when the shoe's on the other—i don't need to finish that, do i?

now, if by conspiracy you mean "a combining or working together," then sure it's a left-wing conspiracy. so what?

but if you mean "a planning and acting together secretly for an unlawful or harmful purpose," then the only conspiracy i see in the case appears to be inside the gop—specifically, a plot to have the republican national committee launder money and feed it to candidates in a way that evades state election laws.

in texas, that meant in one instance $190,000 was collected from corporations and sent to the rnc. the rnc sent that money to candidates in states with less restrictive laws and sent texas candidates $190,000 made up of small individual donations from other states.

all it takes is a couple wire transfers, and everybody winds up with just what they'd get if states had no restrictive laws. see?

they supposedly kept the funds separate, most likely by using separate bank accounts.

that's what gops call a firewall.

it's what i call a) bullshit and b) money laundering, pure and simple.

and since that money crossed state lines, it's a federal case. so how come the US attorney general, texas gop alberto gonzalez, hasn't done anything about it?

i don't think i better hold my breath waiting for an answer.