Indicted? No Problem If you're Tom DeLay.

Usually, being criminally indicted would bring shame on the Congress, and members who are convicted of a crime find themselves removed from office. Well, not so if you're Tom DeLay.

Seems that DeLay is having the Republican House change the rules, so that when his indictment is handed down in Texas for illegally raising political funds from corporations in 2002 (that is, the charges that three of his political aides have already been indicted for), he can continue serving as the Majority Leader.

Should we be embarrassed by this? Yes, we should. Our leadership should not have even the whiff of corruption about them. Tom DeLay doesn't only have a whiff -- he's probably guilty. Which means that eventually, he'll be convicted. When that happens, it will reflect on the Republican party that they circle the wagons around their own -- regardless of their reckless violations of the law.