OBS might get squashed this time

Old Bug Squasher (otherwise known as House Majority Whip Tom DeLay) is in hot water again. Oy. My god, how many scandals, how much smoke, how many rules violations and breaking of laws is it gonna take to get this dude outta government?

Anyway, the scoop:

A six-day trip to Moscow in 1997 by then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was underwritten by business interests lobbying in support of the Russian government, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the trip arrangements.

DeLay reported that the trip was sponsored by a Washington-based nonprofit organization. But interviews with those involved in planning DeLay's trip say the expenses were covered by a mysterious company registered in the Bahamas that also paid for an intensive $440,000 lobbying campaign.

Think Progress has a DOZEN of OBS' greatest misdeeds.

(and, sorry, but I'll say it again - IMAGINE if this guy was a Democrat, IMAGINE if this happened under the terms of WJC. Where is the outrage? Rush? Sean? Bill? Brit?)