REPUBLICAN BLOOD SPORTS
In the pregame highlights for the next two years of GOP one-party rule, right-wing radicals dropped their towels and exposed themselves in all their naked ambition recently. It wasn't a pretty sight. Tom DeLay's buddies voted to lower their party's ethical standards to protect their leader over the objection of moderates like Christopher Shays, who expects to be punished. Maybe DeLay will end up doing the time (artist's rendering, below):
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