Tom Delay's indictment ought to provide so much fodder for the DNC it's not funny. Howard Dean, yo, are you listening? And you know what? I don't give a rats-ass if the republicans are going to go tit-for-tat on "charging" Democratic members with "alleged" crimes. If our guys in fact did something wrong, fuck 'em. Regaining the public trust by casting out ignorant Democrats who held themselves above the law is more important than protecting the jobs they used to get their stupid asses into trouble in the first place.

The indictment points out one thing very, very clearly: the GOP-controlled Congress is unable to police itself. Yeah, what House Ethics Committee? Which leads to the inevitable question: how can they be watchdogs for the rest of the government? Especially the Executive Branch?

Preznit Cowardly Asshat's voluntary war has given them (and the courts) cover to grovel and whine and say "but we're at waaaar". No, we've been dragged into a conflict that Beloved Leader had fantasized about since before he was inaugurated after the stolen election of 2000. The War of Amorphous Syllogisms has been going on purely at the whim of the folks in the GOP who need to keep the level of fear up in this country to stay in power. If we're at War, why hasn't one Congressman, of either party stood up once a day and asked in the well of the House and Senate: "Where is Osama bin Laden today?" Why not, because gosh, we can't be mean to the Preznit...waaaah, we're at War.

What they've done with that power instead is to first pervert and then corrupt the republic for their own ends: enriching their friends, ending inconvenient civil liberties, abrogating the Bill of Rights and demagogery, lots and lots of demogogery to keep their "base" loyal.

So, it's not surprising that Tom Delay, the man who once told a restaurant employee "I am the Federal Government" so he could smoke in a smoke-free restaurant, got indicted. He did what he did, because he knew (in his mind) he'd never be called to account. Apparently it's rumored he's going to plead nolo contendre to that conspiracy charge, he's agreed to waive the statute of limitations on it to take the plea. Why would anyone do that? Because they're trying to avoid what the prosecutor really has in their briefcase.

I hope that at his plea hearing, they make Delay allocute to the charges and it's on camera, live. I also hope they sentence Mr. Law-and-Order Delay to all two years of his time in prison. After all, he's led many a charge to punish criminals. Now that he might be one, why should it be any different for him? Oh, he's a republican.