Fox guarding hen house

Josh Marshall points out that Dennis Hastert's pick for ethics Czar is David Drieir (R-CA), a supporter of the now defunct DeLay rule, designed to permit DeLay to remain in power even if he were indicted. Back in those days Drieir wrote that the rule was needed

Because "it became apparent that by simply bringing an indictment in any court, a local political operative could remove a Congressional leader at a key or sensitive time by bringing an indictment against him or her for political purposes ... The rule change was a necessary step needed to remove an incentive for a partisan prosecutor to make a frivolous or baseless accusation against a Member of the House." So now Dreier is the guy to crack down on law-breaking.

Don't you just love these Republicans?