Oh, how the mighty have fallen...

Poor Tom Delay. He's fallen on hard times. "Some say" that among his former friends one was heard to say: "No, I didn't give... they didn't have change for a nickel." Paul Kiel at The Daily Muck says:

You'd think that Tom Delay would be riding high after Chris Matthews' adulatory interview aired Monday night. But then there's a story like this:

DeLay's defense fund is in the red: He raised $590,520 in 2005, but during 2005, his legal expenses topped $1 million.