Jack and Saint Ralph

Well, well, well, well. One of cocky felon Jack Abramoff's partners in crime was goody-goody Christian-shoes himself, the venerable former leader of the Christian Coalition, Ralph Reed. Apparently Ralph is especially remembered for his holy rants against the evils of gambling. Will word now get to the pews that Really Religious Ralph is really a world-class religious hypocrite? In the words of the irreverent and quasi-blasphemous Maureen Dowd: "And then there's Ralph Reed, the choirboy Bible thumper who used his links to Christian groups to immorally play Indian tribes off against each other."

Too bad we can't go back to the old English pillory and stocks. I'd put Abramoff in the pillory and Reed in the stocks, preferably at the entrance to one of the Native American reservations whose residents they ripped off.