What goes around: Rep. Tom DeLay is on the receiving end of hardball tactics he has used for partisan gain.

HoustonChronicle.com - What goes around: Rep. Tom DeLay is on the receiving end of hardball tactics he has used for partisan gain.: "AFTER his indictment Wednesday on a charge of conspiring to violate Texas campaign finance laws, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay appeared on the television show Hardball and said he had done nothing wrong. He said it was lawful to trade restricted corporate cash for unrestricted individual donations. He said Texas law allowed the use of corporate money to pay for political operatives and phone banks and other trappings of a modern election campaign.

Television host Chris Matthews asked, 'Is anything illegal?'

DeLay, R-Sugar Land, had no answer, but a Texas jury will be asked to decide.

In 2002, when parades of corporate chieftains were being charged with fraud and theft, DeLay said, 'We're going to shackle them and take them to jail.' Despite his readiness to condemn others, DeLay deserves the presumption of innocence."