Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo is trying to find out how each member of the Republican Caucus in the House voted on the rules change to allow their leaders to serve even if they are indicted on felony charges. He and his readers have been successful in finding out how a number of members voted, which is a great service to this country (though it's too bad only a blogger is doing this and not the mainstream media).

As Oregon's only Republican member of the House, Greg Walden (OR-2) seems to be under some pressure to divulge how he voted. Josh explains:

Of all the members of the House Republican caucus, the guy who seems to have heard from the most TPM readers (or at least high on the list) is Greg Walden of Oregon.

Oregonians who called, but weren't from Walden's district, apparently got a bit of a tongue-lashing. But those who were his constituents got either a 'we don't know how he voted' or some version of 'the person who answers that question is away from their desk', etc. Pretty much all of Walden's constituents got the run-around and none of them got a straight answer. Lots of them got promises of calls back. But nobody seems to have gotten one.

There was apparently at least one rather hard-boiled staffer in one of the Walden offices, though. Because, in at least two cases, callers were told that in the staffer's opinion Walden almost certainly gave DeLay the nod.

It'll be interesting to hear how he voted. He's quite partisan, so I would assume he voted to shield Tom DeLay from losing his post should he be indicted soon (the vote indicates to this blogger that he probably will be in the not-too-distant future).

Maybe The Oregonian will look into it... no, knowing them, they probably won't.