Here's Richard Lessner, executive director of the American Conservative Union, on the $250-per-head gala he's throwing tonight in honor of Tom DeLay: "The dinner's a sellout and it's already accomplished what it needs to accomplish: that we publicly embrace Tom DeLay and stand with him against these baseless allegations."

I don't know about you, but if I were a DeLay supporter, I don't think I'd be using the word "sellout" in any context whatsoever these days.

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