Roll Call (via Raw Story) is reporting that certain unnamed financial backers of Tom DeLay are mad
that their money is going to legal fees rather than graft. The money they gave to buy favors will now go to DeLay's defense team.
The buyoff can't work now, and if you can believe the sheer balls of this, the lobbyists want their money back.
I was reminded instantly of this scene from "Get Shorty," a great movie about incompetently organized crime:
BEAR: So you didn't have the key with you.
CHILI: You think I'd be standing here? You set somebody up and you want it to work, it has to be a surprise. Can you remember that?
BEAR: You spotted them, huh?
CHILI: What, did you see it work in some movie you got beat up in?
BEAR: I have to ask you for that key.
CHILI: What, the setup didn't work so you want the key back?
BEAR: Catlett says if you don't open the locker the deal's off.
CHILI: You serious? This is how you guys do business? I can't believe you aren't dead.
Once again, it would be funnier if it weren't real.