WaPo gives DeLay a free pass

This popped up in a WaPo article over the weekend:

DeLay's association with Abramoff clearly has become a concern for those in the majority leader's camp. In recent months, DeLay has been distancing himself from Abramoff. Earlier this year, DeLay told a group of conservative supporters at a private meeting that sometime shortly after SunCruz Casinos founder Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis was gunned down in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Feb. 6, 2001, he confronted Abramoff over his SunCruz involvement, according to people in attendance.

"Immediately, he had Abramoff called in and told him, 'I want no more dealings with you,' " said conservative activist Paul M. Weyrich, a longtime DeLay friend, recounting a speech DeLay gave to a conservative group earlier this year. "I think he felt blindsided by Abramoff" over the SunCruz affair, Weyrich said.

It didn't take long for progressive bloggers to start pointing out obvious examples the contradict this. It's simply a bogus claim. For example, Josh Marshall points out that DeLay and his family were still helping themselves to free meals at Abramoff's restaurant more than a year after this so-called severing of ties...