Seriously, at this point, if DeLay returns to Republican leadership, I will eat my shoe.

Rep. Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 Republican convention in Philadelphia, then diverted some of the excess to a longtime ally, Rep. Roy Blunt, through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes, according to campaign documents reviewed by the Associated Press.

It's not that this latest is particularly damning on its face, but Christ in heaven, when it rains, it pours. (And at some point, even Doc Hastings is going to have to start paying attention.)