Just Like the Magna Carta

Congressman Tom DeLay, who has quickly taken the crown of the clown prince of bon mots from president Bush, recently stated on his Web site that the Republican Party's 1994 Contract with America ranks in equal importance to the Magna Carta.

How ingenious of him to compare a political marketing gimmick with one of the seminal documents in support of the rights of man.

In case you may have forgotten, the major selling point of the Contract with America was term limitations; which, strangely enough, never made it into law. And how fortunate is Folly that it didn't. For if it had, the glorious Commander of the Faithful would no longer be in power.

There is no majesty, nor might save in DeLay.