Squirm DeLay Squirm

After reading the latest about the former--and it's now looking like forever former--Majority Leader, I've gotta think the blood and bile are rising so high inside him that the for next few weeks--if not longer--he'll feel like it's midsummmer in Sugarland, minus the A/C:

A Texas grand jury indicted Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) yesterday for alleged involvement in money laundering related to the 2002 Texas election, raising new and more serious allegations than the conspiracy charge lodged against the former House majority leader last week.
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The airfare to London and Scotland in 2000 for then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was charged to an American Express card issued to Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal and tax probe, according to two sources who know Abramoff's credit card account number and to a copy of a travel invoice displaying that number.

DeLay's expenses during the same trip for food, phone calls and other items at a golf course hotel in Scotland were billed to a different credit card also used on the trip by a second registered Washington lobbyist, Edwin A. Buckham, according to receipts documenting that portion of the trip.

House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting travel and related expenses from registered lobbyists.

Tom's defense? It's all about the golf.

And while it's fun to watch the sumbitch put on the tough guy act when you know he's quivering, this scandal actually crosses over the pond, and becomes a reverse British Invasion--indeed, it's serious enough to make Maggie Thatcher pull out the Pinochet defense.

I guess Tom's too young to try that...of course, he could maybe claim it was a chemical reaction...