[Politics]

Blunt's Our Man.

No one will know what I'm talking about or care, but I'm saying it anyway. In the inter-party race to succeed Tom DeLay, there are two badly compromised candidates and one moderately compromised candidate. The front-runner is the most compromised, Roy Blunt, the current interim Majority Leader, Tom DeLay's appointed successor. A minor candidate named John Shadegg, who is the moderately-compromised and longshot candidate, today got a boost:

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), publicly endorsed Shadegg Thursday after saying he would wait to endorse any candidate until hearing from each of them during the RSC retreat later this month.

For really obvious reasons, it would be far more beneficial to people of goodwill if Roy Blunt, who's as crooked as the day is long, were to replace DeLay. He's a fine example of the modern Republican Party, and I'd like them to sink or swim (by which I mean sink) on his reputation. Last-minute window-dressing is no help.