Somewhat surprisingly, GOP lawmakers are bitching about the FBI raiding Democratic representative Jefferson’s office and gathering evidence, which is an entirely appropriate response since Jefferson is so crooked he has to screw his pants on in the morning. The GOP’s actual agenda? Almost certainly laying the groundwork for similar bitching when any of the major investigations into GOP wrongdoing lead to similar raids on GOP lawmakers. (Which seems sort of inevitable, when you consider Abramoff and Cunningham cooperating with prosecutors, doesn’t it?)

As the Axis of Nielsen Hayden notes, could they be any more transparent?