Reason #342,167,953 why I don't read Instapundit
By Jim Dallas
Not because Glenn Reynolds dissed Texas barbecue (being born in Tennessee, I concede that the man has a point), but because, like so many Republicans, Insty still hasn't gotten the memo that the Republican Party would be better off with out Tom DeLay. Then again, nobody seems to be getting the memo. You know the usual line is, "when your opponent is drowning, toss him an anchor." They've already got an anchor and every day they seem to be embracing it even tighter. Blows my mind, man, blows my mind.
Update:Meanwhile, Kuff asks whether Dick Deguerin is usually this talented as a b.s. artist. Some say yes, but the DeLay trial is surely his magnum opus; five to one odds we see the Chewbacca defense ("it doesn't make any sense!") before this all said and done.
Here's a real question: will DeLay testify? will they attempt to put character evidence in (wouldn't that just play right into DeGuerin's reputation for boldness)? As this story suggests, Earle quit on the KBH trial because of evidentiary rulings. What comes in and what stays out will be of considerable importance...
... incidentally, the adjunct professor from whom I'm learning Evidence (a.k.a. defense agaisnt the dark arts) ran against Tom DeLay in 2002. And he hasn't said anything. That's because he's too modest.
Update 2: For those of you who wish to defend the honor of Texas barbecue, Austinite Josh Wills has a blog dedicated to defending the faith. Personally, my favorite is Carolina-style pork with hot mustard sauce, followed by Texas, followed by Memphis-style. I find it abhorrent that the most popular barbecue sauce has the words "KC" and "Masterpiece" together; if that's not an oxymoron, I don't know what is.
Posted by Jim Dallas at October 22, 2005 02:40 PM
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DeGuerin was a professor of mine at UT Law. He is extremely inventive.
To support his claim that a young Vietnamese client had shot a car full of other young Vietnamese in self defense after one of them knocked loudly and rudely on his front door, DeGuerin had the entire door and frame removed and brought to court as an exhibit. He banged on the thing in court as loud as he could, and the jury bit. The kid was acquitted in the most attenuanted self defense claim I've ever heard.
