Cole to Inoculate DeLay?

Today's New York Times is calling the new U.S. House Ethics Committee "Tom DeLay's Inoculation Committee." The NYT may be rushing to judgment on this.

My current U.S. Representative, Tom Cole, is one of the new members of the committee who is supposed to innoculate DeLay.

While I do not share Cole's political philosophy and have often been unhappy with the way he has cast his vote, I do not know of any reason to question his ethics or personal integrity.

I trust that, should the evidence warrant further action against DeLay by the Ethics Committee, that Tom Cole will put the interests of the country above the interests of his party.

Should Cole's loyalty to his party cloud his judgment, I promise to raise the issue with him in person, in print, on the internet and in the public square.