In January, 2006, Tom Reynolds, National Republican

Congressional Committee Chairman, (1) promised that

the GOP would retain its House majority after November,

(2) issued a full-throated endorsement of Bob Ney, and

(3) expressed effusively his confidence in Tom Delay's

re-election chances. He said nothing, however, about

his own re-election prospects--or Mark Foley's--because

that would have been a no-brainer.