"...And A Jail Cell Made For Two"

Well, well, well. If House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is going down, it's looking like his House minority counterpart is going down with him:

Two political action committees linked to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have been charged with attempting to circumvent to legal limits on campaign giving, the Federal Election Commission has ruled.

According to the March 2004 FEC finding, Pelosi appears to have violated the same kind of arcane campaign finance regulation that spurred the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week.

The San Francisco Chronicle explained at the time:

"The FEC ruled that two Pelosi political action committees created to help Democrats in the 2002 elections were related instead of being independent and therefore violated a rule against giving more than the maximum $5,000 annual contribution."

Tellingly, Crazy Nancy's bona fide law violations were treated a bit differently from the Hammer's phantom transgression:

Rather the refer the case to the Justice Department for prosecution, however, the FEC allowed Pelosi's two committees to negotiate "conciliation agreements" under which they were fined a total of $21,000.

I'm telling you, Democrats are just cursed these days. Every time they think they've "gotten" a Republican, something surfaces to undercut their angle. It's like they've got a life sentence of bad karma.

Having just spent most of last evening and today reading through old blog posts from the first half of 1997, I can testify that that bad karma has a name, a swinish face, a W.C. Fields-ian nose, and still hasn't scammed an honorable legacy.

Suffice it to say, it'll be "Hammer time" long after they've carted away Pelosi to the Nora Desmond Memorial Sanatorium.

The aspiring First Gentlemen's succumbing to syphilis, Al Capone-style, may give the former a run for its money, though.