Republicans back off the DeLay rule change. See this for background. That's good news, and it's the right move, but it should have never happened in the first place. Even if the rule change (to allow a house leader to keep his post while under indictment) was a good idea (and I'm open to the idea that it was), doing it at the time they did it was very foolish politically. DeLay knew it, which is why he (along with Hastert) was the one who made this proposal to maintain the current rules.
Also, Democrats strengthened their ethics rule to match the Republicans' rule.
Update: Scott has a slogan for DeLay: "Tom DeLay: always willing to set aside patently ridiculous and fairly nauseating rule changes if he's pretty sure he's not going to need them." Somehow I forgot to mention that I'd heard that it was pretty certain by now that he wasn't going to be indicted. So that probably had something to do with this 
Scott also is right to point out DeLay's other honorable reason for making this proposal.
Update: Amy has comments.
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
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