Those Wacky Cut-ups!

Gosh, those folks over at the DeLay bunker are a laugh riot. Now this:

Mr. DeLay went on radio and television as his lawyers claimed their first procedural victory in the case. They said a trial judge had agreed not to issue an arrest warrant for Mr. DeLay and would let him appear voluntarily at a court hearing next month in Austin, the Texas capital.

Big victory! A judge figured he could rely on a sitting United States Representative and a major national media figure to actual show up at his hearing, instead of becoming a fugitive? That's a bar so low that it's pretty embarassing to point to it as a victory. Don't we sort of assume that our governmental officials have at least that much respect for the law? Really, now.

Doesn't this claim of victory imply that it was reasonable for the judge to assume that DeLay would attempt to flee, so that "trusting" him was a big step? Where's he gonna go, St. Andrews? Isn't Abramoff in custody? Maybe he'd go running off to find the "One-armed Man" who actually conspired to launder contributions? Ha.