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Tom DeLay, Meet Arthur Fonzarelli

Brian Doherty | 8.26.2006 1:42 PM

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Texas political blogger Charles Kuffner sees a similarity between departing former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and TV's beloved Fonzie (except that no one be-loves DeLay): an inability to admit they were wrong.

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Brian Doherty was a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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