MaconDaily.com documents the public crackup of one of the Democrasses' finest.
Earle also accused DeLay, through partisan zeal, of fomenting divisions within U.S. society that could lead to Americans becoming like "Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds" in deeply divided Iraq.
But there is some good news from the same article.
A judge presiding over the money laundering and conspiracy case involving U.S. Republican Rep. Tom DeLay, one of America's most powerful politicians, was ordered to step aside on Tuesday after DeLay's attorneys said the judge was too staunchly Democrat to give a fair trial.
State District Judge Bob Perkins will be replaced by another judge to be named by a regional administrator without input from either side in the politically charged case.
Visiting Judge C.W. Duncan granted a defense motion to recuse Perkins without explanation after a hearing in which DeLay's lawyer Dick DeGuerin complained that Perkins had given money to candidates and organizations, especially liberal activist group MoveOn.org, opposed to DeLay and could not be impartial.
"We're not saying that Judge Perkins is a bad judge or an unfair judge. What we are saying is this is the wrong case for him to judge," DeGuerin said.
Perkins had refused to recuse himself from it, but asked that the decision be made by another judge.DeLay attended the hearing and left smiling, but made no comment.
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