So, how was your weekend? I have a hunch it was a bit more pleasant that it was for Tom DeLay.<\/p>\n
Let’s see, there was the first member of the House Republican Caucus who called for him to resign<\/a>…<\/p>\n “Tom’s conduct is hurting the Republican Party, is hurting this Republican majority and it is hurting any Republican who is up for re-election,” Rep. Chris Shays, a Connecticut Republican, told The Associated Press in an interview, calling for DeLay to step down as majority leader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n …plus Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum distancing himself<\/a> from DeLay…<\/p>\n Rick Santorum, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said Sunday that DeLay needs to explain his conduct to the public.<\/p>\n “I think he has to come forward and lay out what he did and why he did it and let the people then judge for themselves,” Santorum told ABC’s “This Week.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n …plus word from Jack Abramoff that DeLay’s defense for his Abramoff-related scandals is a total sham<\/a>…<\/p>\n “Everybody is lying,” Abramoff told a former colleague. There are e-mails and records that will implicate others, he said…. DeLay and his aides have said repeatedly they were unaware of Abramoff’s behind-the-scenes financing role. “Those S.O.B.s,” Abramoff said last week about DeLay and his staffers, according to his luncheon companion. “DeLay knew everything. He knew all the details.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n …plus the president declining to defend DeLay<\/a>, John McCain doing the same<\/a>, and an item in the New York Times citing GOP insiders who have “begun to speak privately about their sense that [DeLay’s] standing is in danger<\/a>.”<\/p>\n