Wapo: Delay's conviction "Criminalization of Politics"

The politicians I can stand, it's the damned lawyers that are destroying us.  Of course most of the politicians are lawyers.  Double evil as it were.  Wapo explains:

But it was legal for corporations to donate to Mr. DeLay's political action committee, so it's fair to question how the cash sent to and from the RNC was transformed into criminal "proceeds." Mr. DeLay's lawyers presented testimony from three current and former RNC officials that such money swaps were common transactions for political parties.

Mr. DeLay's conduct was wrong. It was typical of his no-holds-barred approach to political combat. But when Mr. DeLay, following the conviction, assailed "the criminalization of politics," he had a fair point.