In a 22-minute speech from the House floor, Tom Delay went out swinging. Delay defended his style of partisan politics, saying that the “self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first-principle” is responsible for “degrad[ing] our public debate,” The NY Times also picks up a quote by Delay claiming his continued pride in the “The K Street project and the K Street strategy.” In spite of his intentions to move to Virginia in order to facilitate the removal of his name from the ballot in Texas, a court battle is unfolding which could keep his name there in November.