It has come to my attention over the past few days that Ronnie Earle is somewhat of an idiot. After DeLay's lawyers found a glaring error in Earle's indictment (unrelated to most of the supposed "errors" pointed out by right-wing pundits, which I have rebutted here), Earle secured another indictment from another grand jury, so as to "cover all his bases", this time charging DeLay with a number of crimes, the most significant of which is money laundering.

While in the past I have demonstrated that what DeLay was doing was actually money laundering, I was unaware that the conspiracy charges previously brought against DeLay did not adequately address this. DeLay is plainly a crooked, corrupt politician, which has been established by his four previous rebukes from the nonpartisan Goverment Accountability Office, as well as the plethora of other shady deals of which he has been party (I have blogged on a number of these).

The sad thing is that Earle seems to be pretty incompetent, which makes it much more likely that DeLay will walk. Of course Earle works for the government, so it should be so surprise that he is terrible at what he does, but this is a time when it would be good to have someone who knows what they are doing in charge of the prosecution, not a grown man who goes by the name Donnie.

I guess I'll hold out and hope for the best -- that somehow Earle will find a way to use the obvious evidence against DeLay without succumbing to his stupidity. If DeLay walks, we can all hope that his reputation will have been sufficiently ruined (since it deserves to be) and the Republicans will distance themselves from him. Unlike some partisan Democrats, I just want to see DeLay removed from office because he has shown himself to be a great example of everything a politician can do to act against the interests of democracy and the people's interest.

To keep my coverage of this whole DeLay fiasco "fair and balanced", I also found a site that has tons of information on Democrats doing the same stuff DeLay has been doing. The problem isn't one man or one party, but the whole political system that is saturated with money and power-hungry people with no ethical principles and no accountability.