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Tom DeLay has himself a jury in Austin and his lawyer is proceeding pretty much as expected – whining, striking African Americans from the jury, and gnawing on the leg of the prosecutor.

DeGuerin had cut five African Americans from the jury because, in several instances, he said the would-be jurors appeared angry at him after he had criticized the lead prosecutor, Gary Cobb, who is black.

Cobb said it was an outrageous pretext to exclude African Americans.

“I don’t have a racial bone in my body,” DeGuerin said. “Neither does Tom DeLay. And anybody who says otherwise doesn’t know what they are talking about.”

“Well, Mr. DeGuerin,” Juanita begins, “I do know what I’m talking about and I’m here to tell you that that’s kinda hard to prove, being as how Tom DeLay’s mid-decade redistricting was specifically designed to defeat every white Democrat in Texas’ congressional delegation so that Tom DeLay could attempt to marginalize the Democratic Party as the party of only black folks.”

“Tom DeLay is a raging racist and you know it,” she grins.  “The whole purpose of his money laundering was to divide Texas along racial lines.”

“And quit whining about not getting a fair trial in Austin.   If you can’t get a fair trial in Austin, Texas, that’s probably Tom Delay’s fault.  He left DNA in every hot tub in town and people are still hacked about it.”

Yeah, she said that.  She really did.