Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

Is there any defense of this? It's got Tom Delay written all over it, and as usual, he'll outscream and out-bully anyone who tries to get to the bottom of it. Given time and patience though, this administration will self-destruct in their obsessive thirst for absolute power. They already control every branch of government including the courts but they still want more...

"The fight over the flight of Democratic legislators intensified yesterday as the Texas Department of Public Safety admitted it had destroyed documents that were collected last week as state troopers searched for the missing lawmakers.
What started out as a local partisan dispute about redistricting escalated into accusations of a cover-up and abuse of federal power."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/national/22TEXA.html?th

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/21/texas.legislature.ap/index.html