Tom DeLay prepares for ''Dancing with the Inmates"

Former Dancing with the Stars "star" (obviously not as wingnut-beloved as grizzly cub Bristol Palin) and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is now, officially, a convicted felon for money-laundering donations from corporations to state candidates in violation of Texas law.

First, DeLay will NOT go quietly. Nor repentantly. Not even pseudo-repentantly. Expect no Bob Ney or Jack Abramoff here. No, the Hammer will stay the Hammer.

The man who, in pot-calling-kettle mode, accused then-Travis County DA Ronnie Earle of a political vendetta won't change.

Poetic justice would be to send him to a privately operated prison of the type his GOP buddies favor, like GEO Group (the former Whackyournuts) or CCA. Doorknob knows there's enough of them.

Even more poetic justice would be for the one-time pest exterminator to literally get a dose of his own medicine.