What to do with Tom DeLay

Matthew Yglesias at Tapped is concerned over how the Democrats are handling the situation involving Tom DeLay. Yglesias writes "What, for example, is the DCCC doing trumpeting efforts by vulnerable Republicans to distance themselves from DeLay? They should be emphasizing everyones ties with DeLay." Are the Democrats mishandling this, and if so, why?

My take on this is that the Democrats have been so eager to put DeLay or any other GOP member in their place in the hopes of helping the Donkey that they may end up failing to maximize the impact of DeLay's actions. Ygelsias is right, the Dems need to use DeLay's history against people other than Tom DeLay in the hopes of winning a number of seats come 2006.

I am as excited as any other Democrat about catching DeLay with his hand in the cookie jar, but I think the powers-that-be need to get together and come up with a better long-term approach on how to handle all of this. It would be a real shame to look back after the elections in 2006 only to see that we could have come up with something better in order to knock of some Republicans at the polls.

Ryan Oddey
Ryan@TAFMess.com