DeLay's political action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority – familiarly known as TRMPAC – stands accused of skirting campaign finance laws to ensure GOP victories in the 2002 legislative elections. The trial opened this week before visiting state District Judge Joe Hart, called out of retirement to preside. TRMPAC played a major fundraising role in the 2002 effort, drawing on large contributions from unidentified corporate donors, and in turn helped produce a GOP landslide that catapulted Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, to the House Speaker's post.

Tom DeLay serves as majority leader, the second ranking leader in the United States House of Representatives.  He is responsible for developing the issues and policies that form the Republican agenda, in conjunction with committee chairmen and the rest of the leadership.  DeLay sets the legislative schedule by selecting which bills the House will consider and the timing of their consideration.  DeLay also coordinates House committees’ work to ensure national priorities are addressed.

DeLay is a 52-year-old Houston millionaire and former owner of a pest-control company.  Squashing bugs seems to have convinced Tom DeLay that he is a superior being in God's grand scheme.  He is the religious right's most reliable culture warrior in the House.
His mission is so stereotypically ultra-right-wing, it sounds like a liberal joke: repeal environmental protection laws. Dismantle the EPA. Teach creationism in public schools. Have the ten commandments tattooed on every citizens <edit>. Abolish separation of church and state. Outlaw abortion. Pass the flag burning amendment. Spend billions on SDI. Shut down the federal government. Crucify Clinton.
But DeLays' moral impairment doesn't stop there. It finds its logical extension in the realm of campaign finance. DeLay is a master of extortion, and his shadowy fundraising operations, which raise unknown amounts of soft money for the GOP are legendary. Not surprisingly, DeLay is vigorously opposed to anything even remotely resembling a campaign finance reform. Money, according to DeLay, is "not the root of all evil in politics. In fact, money is the lifeblood of politics."

Tom DeLay was the first national politician to call for Bill Clinton's resignation after the President admitted to fooling around with Monica Lewinsky.   "Clinton does not have the moral authority to be President," pronounced DeLay.  "I believe in the Constitution and the Bible