I do not know what is funnier, a bad lawyer or one who writes like a histrionic high school  sophomore with flowers up their tookus.

Tom DeLay just made that decision a little easier.

Tom claims that he’s spent $10 million on lawyers.  If that is true, he is the proud owner of the most expensive pile of crap in the nation.

Lookie here.  His high priced appeals lawyer quoted Hollywood movies and Shakespeare (who John Steinbeck did a tad better quoting)  in a trite and silly 107 page brief that basically argues that (1) checks are not money, only cash is money and (2) DeLay used the money he illegally gained to elect a court of appeals who changed the law to make what he did legal.

This is like killing your parents and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you’re a orphan.

Or saying that if I buy your watch and pay with a hot check, that’s okay because checks aren’t money anyway.

There’s an old saying in the legal profession that if you have a guilty client, your best hope is to postpone the case until everyone dies or the law changes.

But, the brief hardly matters and I suspect his lawyer knows that.  The court of appeals in Texas is Republican owned, operated, bought, and paid for.

And that’s how you spend $10 million on lawyers.