No he hasn't been indicted, but why change the rules for him?
Why not?
In this case the Democrats are playing a dirty trick and DeLay does need to be protected.
Let me take a run at that one. Ronnie Earl the DA of Travis County, and a Democrat, has jurisdiction over all statewide officials and congressmen in Texas. He has for years sought to indict Republicans on trumped up charges, including Senator Hutchison, where when he got her to court he declined to prosecute.
He is after DeLay and we don't need to lose Tom's leadership because of a CROOKED DEMOCRAT in Austin, Texas.
Why change the rules for him? Because a rogue Democrat prosecutor in Texas is trying to bring a false case against Delay specifically in order to trigger this rule.
Rules that make you vulnerable to your enemies need to be reconsidered.
As for Specter, it's not a done deal yet. Let's hope it's never a done deal, because it could cause big trouble for Bush, and that would be a pity with everything else going so well.
Because he WILL be indicted by a leftist rat prosecutor that has a history of politically motivated indictments.
An indictment means nothing. A DA can indict a ham sandwich.
Forget about Delay for a moment. The current rule is a bad rule, and it has been exposed as such by the current situation. Under current rules, if a member of the Republican leadership is indicted, they automatically lose their leadership position. No review, no appeal, no nothing. So if the Democrats can secure a partisan indictment against a member of the Republican leadership, even one without any merit, they have effectively dictated who the Republican leaders can or can't be. It only makes sense that there should be an internal review process, rather than an automatic trigger, so that Republicans get to decide who their own leaders will be, and what consititues rightful dismissal. The Democrats do not have an automatic dismissal trigger for members of their leadership, and rightfully so. The same should apply for the Republicans.