Readers with long memories might remember Texas Republican Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, who briefly served as Tom DeLay's successor after she'd won the special election to succeed him but simultaneously lost for the full term. Sekula-Gibbs' brief tenure in the House was marked by the mass resignation of DeLay's former staffers, who quit rather than work for her for two months.

Well, we won't have Shelley to kick around anymore. Sekula-Gibbs was again running for the seat, hoping for a rematch with incumbent Democrat Nick Lampson. But in tonight's Texas primary runoffs, she lost 68%-32% to Pete Olson, a former aide to Sen. John Cornyn.

And by the way, be on the lookout for this one being a key race this Fall, perhaps the best chance the GOP has to take a seat away from the Dems — it went 64%-35% for President Bush in 2004, and went Democratic in 2006 due mostly to the bizarre circumstances of Tom DeLay's resignation.