House Republican Leader Tom DeLay, under fire for making threats against judges and for serious criminal ethics violations, had this to say yesterday about his predicament in a speech before the National Rifle Association conference:

“When a man is in trouble or in a good fight, you want to have your friends around, preferably armed. So I feel really good."

I’m hoping that well armed jailers will be the only people with guns around this guy after they lock him up for being the criminal he is.