For some reason, criminals hate being treated like criminals :

A Texas court on Wednesday issued a warrant for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s arrest, and set an initial $10,000 bail as a routine step before his first court appearance on conspiracy and state money laundering charges.

Travis County court officials said DeLay was ordered to appear at the Fort Bend County, Texas, jail for booking, where he’d likely be fingerprinted and photographed. DeLay’s lawyers had hoped to avoid such a spectacle.

True, the GOP hates to cause a spectacle :

I’m guessing the GOP isn’t nearly as proud of their ink-stained fingers as they used to be…