The PAC that Tom Delay rode for years and used to help him establish his majority in the US House of Representatives is being shut down by the Federal Elections Commission.

The fundraising organization that helped vault former Rep. Tom DeLay to Republican leadership ranks in the House and distributed election money to numerous Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down.

Under an agreement with the Federal Election Commission, Americans for a Republican Majority's political action committee agreed to pay a $115,000 fine and close. The agreement, reached July 7, was made public late Wednesday.
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"The reason DeLay became so powerful was all about the money, the amounts of money he could pull in and could distribute to his colleagues," said Melanie Sloan, the watchdog group's executive director. "Nearly every Republican in Congress received money from ARMPAC, thus consolidating his power base. They loved him because he kept them flush. Now we find out, they brought in huge amounts of money, but they did it illegally."

This certainly can't help Delay's case in court in the long run, and might even be another nail in his coffin in terms of his criminal prosecution. For the last six years (and more) we've had to listen to the republidroids saying that "we should just win elections"...well, now that the corruption in their party that allowed them to buy elections is being revealed slowly but surely, perhaps we will.

Me, I'm looking forward to November. I don't know how well the fear card will play, given the mis-playing of every hand the republican-controlled government has been dealt...and with an almost infinitely stacked deck of cards they've had to play with.