text: is tom delay the poster boy for power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely?   for that to be true he would have to have absolute power.  and anyone who thinks he did have absolute power, needs to brush up on their american government.  actually, that is incorrect.  a) republicans do not control the supreme court, though they do like to take more than their fair share of power, not matter whose appointees are on the bench.  b) rep. can hardly be called a cohesive unit - just as the democrats cannot.  these are individual people, though they share many beliefs, they are not all 100% for touting the party line (which would have to be true for them to have absolute power).  an example of this woul be the recent immigration debate, where several republicans did not join their party majority, but sided with the dems.  i must assume that when you said that is as close as they can come to absolute power, you meant is our form of government.  otherwise, you would be dead wrong.