BradBlog: Breaking: 'The Hammer' Goes Down! Tom DeLay Quits!

To Drop Out of Upcoming Election and Leave Congress Shortly!

The Exterminator Gets Exterminated...

-- TIME Mag covers here... -- WaPo covers here... -- MSNBC covers here... -- CNN covers here... -- AP covers here... -- LATE ADDITION: Houston Chronicle offers more details, and...

-- TIME Mag covers here...
-- WaPo covers here...
-- MSNBC covers here...
-- CNN covers here...
-- AP covers here...
-- LATE ADDITION: Houston Chronicle offers more details, and DeLay's Political Obit in the early/late web edition (12:44am PT - Hat tip to Pokey A. in Houston)

From TIME...

Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress within months.
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"I'm going to announce tomorrow that I'm not running for reelection and that I'm going to leave Congress," DeLay, who turns 59 on Saturday, said during a 90-minute interview on Monday.