It's certainly unfair to single out DeLay for criticism in this area, as they're pretty much all doing the same, depending on their level of influence.
That's not to condone this kind of crap, though. Whether technically legal or not, it reeks.
The bigger the government, the more corruption you get.
Whatever happened to small-government conservatism? It seems to have dried up and blown away.
Small government what??? I'm unfamiliar with the next word...as are most of our politicians unfortunately.