"I was wrong and I'm sorry."

That's what Cynthia McKinney should have wasted no time saying after her altercation with a Capitol Police officer last week. But as always with McKinney, everyone else is to blame.

She could wrap this up immediately with those six words: "I was wrong, and I'm sorry." But we can be pretty certain that she won't.

I wrote this in December about Tom DeLay's problems:

His shenanigans have to be a huge turn off in Sugar Land. Cynthia McKinney is my representative, and I know I like her best when I haven't heard anything from her in a while. She is, to be fair, an extraordinarily gifted orator, but I prefer not to see pull quotes from her speeches in newspapers. I'd imagine that voters in Texas on the whole feel the same way. We send you people to work for us, not yourselves. Barring that, we at least want a cut. Barring that, we at least don't want it shoved in our faces that you're a criminal.