That’s the name of a segment on “60 Minutes” this evening, according to this Washington Post article, which examines the ongoing criminal investigation in Austin over House Majority Leader Tom DeLay‘s involvement in various campaign finance violations. Here are the previous posts on the investigation of Mr. DeLay.
By the way, when you hear Mr. DeLay’s aides deride the investigation as a politically-motivated witch hunt of Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, just remember this.
Update: Here is the transcript of the 60 Minutes segment.

Probably not, but this Washington Post article notes sure signs that the DeLay camp is concerned.

Chrenkoff has it here.

Greg’s Opinion brings us this post in which he describes an evening chat with Vinson & Elkins partner and Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senator, Barbara Radnofsky of Houston. Barbara is a formidable candidate who will be interesting to watch as her campaign develops. If she can overcome the name recognition hurdle, my sense is that she could give any Republican candidate for the Senate a real run for their money.

Gosh, this is getting monotonous.
This Raw Story article reports that the National Journal is prepared to report that prominent lawyer and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who federal authorities are investigating for his lobbying efforts on behalf of an Indian tribe and his relationship with House Majority Leader and Houston area congressman Tom DeLay, paid thousands of dollars for DeLay and DeLay?s staff?s stay in an expensive London hotel in mid-2000. Earlier posts on the Abramoff-DeLay investigation can be reviewed here.
House rules stipulate that members or members? employees cannot accept payment from a registered lobbyist to cover travel costs.

This Washington Post article examines the political implications of the Trans-Texas Corridor, which is the biggest highway project since the Interstate Highway project of the 1950s. The $184 billion, 50-year plan provides for building 4,000 miles of six high speed toll lanes for cars and trucks, six rail lines, and easements that would provide space for petroleum, natural gas and water pipelines, and electric, broadband and other telecommunications lines.

In this post, James Wolcott endorses Kinky Friedman‘s candidacy for Texas governor because of Kinky’s stated reason for running — he wants “to move into the governor’s mansion because he needs more closet space.”
Among other observations, Mr. Wolcott describes the looming Republican Primary battle between Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and current Texas governor Rick Perry:

It has been rumored that Senator Kay Bailey Thurston Howell the Third is planning to step down from the Senate to run for the governor’s seat, presently occupied by Rick Perry, whom even other Republicans consider a ceramic idiot. She would be a formidable candidate, unlike the current dolt.

Meanwhile, don’t miss Banjo Jones’ hilarious analysis of the lengths that Houston U.S. Representative and notorious camera hog Sheila Jackson Lee went to in order to obtain maximum camera time during President Bush’s State of the Union speech earlier this week.

Texan and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza is engaged to marry MarÌa Aramburuzabala, who is reportedly Mexico’s richest woman and who is dubbed “the Beer Queen.”

The Bush Administration’s initiative to reform the Social Security system has been criticized recently as being premature because the system is not really in crisis and there are more pressing fiscal problems, such as reforming the health care finance system. Well, Social Security is clearly not in as bad a shape as say, Medicare, but to put off reforming Social Security for that reason is akin to reasoning that there is no need to tend to that long overdue tune up of the family’s better car because it seems to be driving better than the family’s clunker.
In this Wall Street Journal ($) Capital column, David Wessel interviews Edward “Ned” Gramlich, a U.S. Federal Reserve governor who chaired the Social Security advisory commission during the Clinton Administration and is the former dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Public Policy. Although not enamored of the Bush Administration’s initial proposal for reforming Social Security, Mr. Gramlich nevertheless is a strong proponent for Social Security reform now:

I don’t think the system is in crisis. But we can make much more desirable changes if they’re made early. The problem with waiting until the car is about to go off the road is that our options are constricted. It’s hard to make sensible benefit cuts if people have already retired or are close to retirement. It’s easier to do if cuts are well-advertised. In the past, we have waited, the benefit system has expanded and we’ve raised the payroll tax. At some point, we can’t do that.

We can do much more sensible things if we act early. But it’s hard to generate the requisite urgency when the system is projected to be paying full benefits for the next 40 years or so. I’m not an advocate of the president’s general approach, but I have sympathy for arguments that the president’s people are making about the wisdom of acting now.

Read the entire interview.