Tom DeLay: always blaming everybody else for HIS mistakes. Well, he can’t do that about this disclosure:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Tom DeLay failed to comply with House requirements that he disclose all contributions to a defense fund that pays his legal bills, the Texas Republican acknowledged to House officials.

He wrote officials that $20,850 contributed in 2000 and 2001 was not reported anywhere. Another $17,300 was included in the defense fund’s quarterly report but not in DeLay’s 2000 annual financial disclosure report — a separate requirement.

Other donations were understated as totaling $2,800, when the figure should have been $4,450.

It was during that period that DeLay was the subject of several House ethics investigations.

He did that during the investigations! And, just like Judith Miller who happened to stumble upon her “newly discovered notes” in Plamegate, DeLay claims he just learned about these “accounting irregularities” last Friday.

What kind of bloody accounting system does he use that he would discover these 4 year old mistakes just last Friday? Bullshit, I say. He knows he’s toast in Texas and he knows his records are subject to more scrutiny now. Does anyone really think he didn’t intentionally hide these “irregularities”?

Slimeball.

The sooner he’s frog-marched out of Washington, the better.