GOP can't DeLay the indictment, though

Must be the season for Biblical plagues.

First you got your pink locusts swarming Egypt as in the days of the Pharaoh.

Then you have House Republicans swarming the Capitol righteously ruling out their own rules.

House Republicans voted to change their rules today to allow members indicted for a felony to remain in a leadership post.

The rule change, which party leaders said could benefit Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) in case he is charged by a Texas grand jury that has indicted three of his political associates, was approved by a voice vote in a closed meeting of Republican House members.

Josh Marshall is right.

The absolute corruption in the House GOP right now must make DC residents think a new waste treatment plant has just gone into operation.

Changing the rule is not a sign that lawmakers think DeLay will be indicted, Cantor said yesterday, but rather a public rebuke of an investigation they feel is wholly unwarranted.

Oh, please. If they didn't think he's going to be indicted, they certainly wouldn't have undertaken this exercise in sloppy hypocrisy and even more sloppy kissing of the bug man's ass.

The drip, drip, drip of scandal is going to continue and all the rule changing in the world isn't going to make the exterminator smell any better.

But the Dems better get a lot louder and act more like an opposition party, rather than a dance partner.

How about Nancy Pelosi screaming to high heaven (I mean FoxNews), "So this is how the so-called 'Reform Party' behaves?"