Exterminator With Extreme Prejudice

Tom "The Cockroach" DeLay doesn't like investigations, maybe because he's been the target of so many of them.

But while condemnation of the reported abuses [of Iraqi prisoners] came from both sides of the political aisle, members split along party lines over the question of whether Congress should conduct special hearings into the allegations. Several Democrats urged such a move, but Republicans DeLay and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee opposed the idea, saying regular congressional committees could provide sufficient oversight.

"I'm sure that our committees are going to be asking the right questions," DeLay said. "But a full-fledged congressional investigation -- that's like saying we need an investigation every time there's police brutality on the street."

Spoken like a true Texan Republican. There's no need to investigate police brutality every time it happens. Maybe every third off-year, or when we can blame on the Democrats. But there's no need to get carried away.

Anyway, the Texan bug chaser has his own investigation to worry about -- call it Fumigate.