TOM DELAY OFF THE RESERVATION: BOEHNER HAS NO BACKBONE, "HILLARY WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT"

Tom Delay, for some reason, is still not in prison. He granted an interview at a book party for fellow-kook and fanatic John Bolton in the fashionable, well-decorated Georgetown home of GOP closet queen Ken Mehlman yesterday. I don't know if Delay was snorting anything behind closed doors but he sounds too drunk to... drive in the interview with Yeas & Nays.

DeLay told Yeas & Nays that Republicans in Congress are "looking for something to believe in" and "they're not getting it out of this Republican leadership. … The leadership just isn't getting it."

"They're looking for some backbone," said DeLay, who also chimed in on the 2008 election. He said the Republican party is "going to get our clocks cleaned in 2008" and unequivocally said that "Hillary [Clinton] will be the next president." Which ought to give DeLay’s newest projects, the Coalition for a Conservative Majority and a consulting firm called First Principles, LLC, plenty to do.

Other members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy at Mehlamn's tastefully appointed pad were the Cheney Girls (Lynne and Liz), Scooter Libby (like Delay, not in prison), Grover Norquist (not embarrassed to show his face in public-- at least not among this crew), Kate O'Beirne (free food), Byron York, John Fund, Ramesh Ponnuru, Mary Matalin, Armstrong Williams, Barbara Comstock, David Keene... don't you wish you were on that circuit party list?