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U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay may have stepped down as House majority leader and as the kingpin of congressional Republicans.
But before scandal forced DeLay out of the leadership of his party's legislative forces, he established a ruthless political operation that had as its goal the nomination and election not merely of conservative Republicans but of conservative Republicans who would do the bidding of DeLay and his corporate paymasters.
That operation did not disappear when DeLay stepped down.
DeLay's operation is still playing politics, and...