Not quite the point

Yes, Associated Press, it is true that many politicians employee family members, but DeLay did it on a grander scale of petty than most.

The Bugman paid his family a cool half-mill over four years to apparently admit they were his family members...undoubtedly part of his campaign to convince people that he did not belong to a species that laid millions of eggs under a kitchen sink. How he hides his other four legs is the real question.

But yes, DeLay is not alone. However, some of these people are on payrolls for good reasons.

For example, Mary Cheney is on 'Big Time's' payroll because it humanizes him and allows he and his wife the ability to bash people who point out his daughter's well-known sexuality for the purpose of showing Dick to be a fucking hypocrite, by being fucking hypocrites.

...all for a cool $81,000. That is damn good for protection money.

Joe Liberman employs his wife Hadassah because somebody has to tell lonely Joe that she loves him...undoubtedly as a friend.

And J.D. Hayworth? Well c'mon he employs his spouse because he needs somebody to read and write for him. Those tasks have always been too much of a challenge for Congressman Rubble.

"Speak slower please, and no big words"