Holy shit, it doesn’t get crazier than this, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are distant cousins. That’s right folks these two opposites are related to each other.

So says the vice president’s wife, Lynne Cheney, who said she discovered that her husband of 43 years is eighth cousins with the senator from Illinois.

The two men could hardly be more different. Cheney is an advocate for pursuing the war in Iraq to try to stabilize the country, while Obama wants to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.

I wonder if Dick’s going to support his new found cousin for President?

Book ‘em Dano

Tom DeLay looks a little too happy in this mug shot. This doesn’t even look like a mug shot, this is what a mug shot should look like. Tom Delay is being booked for conspiracy and money laundering charges.

[The Smoking Gun]

The warrant says:

To any sheriff or peace officer of the state of Texas, greetings, you are hereby commanded to arrest Thomas Dale DeLay and keep him safely so that you have him before the 331st Judicial District Court of Travis County

[Reuters]

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was hit today with a felony conspiracy indictment for his alleged involvement in a Texas campaign finance scheme. The powerful Republican congressman was named, along with two political associates, in an indictment handed up by a Travis County grand jury. See the copy of the indictment here.

Update 10/03/05
Second indictment for Tom DeLay, this time its for money laundering. I feel the Republican Party will suffer this coming mid-term election if they keep this guy in office. I didn’t even know there was a second grand jury investigation. I say give him the boot. In the corporate world if this happens, your out of a job, there’s no differences here.