For anyone who doesn't quite understand why the Republican-controlled congress erected a deflector shield around House Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week, Prairie Weather sums up the situation quite nicely, with appropriate linkage to and fro.
DeLay is Boss Tweed on a national scale, and the domed building at the East end of the Mall in Washington, D.C. is his Tammany Hall (different political party, same concept).
