.

Juanita thinks she’s going to throw up.  Seriously.

The Justice Department has informed former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) that the government has ended a six-year investigation of his ties to the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to DeLay’s lead counsel in the matter, Richard Cullen, chairman of McGuireWoods.

The investigation lasted through two presidents and four attorneys general. Its demise provides a stark footnote to the lobbying scandals that helped Democrats regain the House majority they held for 40 years and lost in the Republican revolution of 1994, which eventually made the pugnacious DeLay one of Washington’s top power brokers.

“I guess the best I can hope for is that he’ll throw out his back while strutting around town.  Or that he’ll accidentlaly bite his tongue while saying, ‘I told you so.'”

“And if there was a newspaper around here worth its salt, they’d go investigate why his village for foster children, once heralded as worthwhile and formerly overseen by the Lutheran Church,  has had only one family for the past year and is overgrown with weeds.  Seven houses have sat empty for at least a year.  Something ain’t right there.  Odds are that they’ll kick out that last family now that Tom is free and clear.”

“And I do take some delight that Tom will have to admit that it was the Obama Justice Department who cleared him,” she smiles.