TOM DeLAY AND DICK ARMEY GRUDGE MATCH CONTINUES-- ARMEY INVOKES JERRY JEFF WALKER, DWT COUNTERS WITH WILCO

OK, everyone now knows former right-wing partners in crime, Tom DeLay and Dick Armey, hate each other's guts. DeLay's ghost writer viciously attacked Armey in the silly book he wrote under DeLay's name, a book even DeLay hasn't bothered to read. After DeLay stumbled all over himself when confronted on live TV with a quote from "his" book calling Armey names-- he claimed he never wrote it and then claimed he didn't have his glasses when the interviewer offered to show him the underlined passage-- Armey struck back.

In recent months, he's called Mr. DeLay "sneaky" and "conniving" and said he should never have been entrusted with public office. Two days after the GOP lost Congress in November's elections, he published an essay in the Wall Street Journal that implicitly attacked Mr. DeLay and his tactics, lamenting that the vision of smaller government that propelled Republicans to power in 1994 had given way to an emphasis on social wedge issues meant to rile the GOP base. Borrowing a phrase from the corrupt superlobbyist and DeLay ally Jack Abramoff, he complained that Congress had turned into a "favor factory."

In today's Dallas Morning News Armey suggested Jerry Jeff Walker had a song that answered DeLay quite well, "The Pot Can't Call the Kettle Black." You Tube doesn't have it but don't fret, I'm not going to offer you "Mr. Bojangles," "Rodeo Cowboy" or that "L.A. Freeway" song. I found something far better, Wilco doing "Pot Kettle Black" live. I hope this makes Mr. Armey's point. If only more Republicans would spend some time listening to Wilco!