"Do-Over"

Tom DeLay's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss criminal conspiracy charges on the grounds "arguing that the charge of conspiring to violate campaign finance laws was based on a statute that didn't take effect until 2003 — a year after the alleged acts".

"Since the indictment charges no offense, and since you have professed not to be politically motivated in bringing this indictment, I request that you immediately agree to dismiss this indictment so that the political consequences can be reversed," DeGuerin wrote."

Ronnie Earle must have been worried that the case would be thrown out (a testament to the weakness of his case), because he scrambled to find a newly sworn in grand jury to indict DeLay again -- this time on charges of money laundering.

“Ronnie Earle has stooped to a new low with his brand of prosecutorial abuse,” DeLay said in a statement. “He is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a ‘do-over’ since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate. This is an abomination of justice.”

"If Ronnie Earle didn't exist, we'd have to invent him. Seriously, could any politician hope for a more disastrously incompetent prosector to be "hot on the trail"? His misteps and flailing about would almost be comical, if the normally right-minded folks in Texas hadn't given this boob a role in our justice system."

Well, it's the left-minded folks in Austin who continue to elect the boob.

--LynZee