The Hartford Courant had this from Chris Shays the other day (I saw it in the Hotline):

Shays, a veteran reformer who has long been at odds with DeLay, said it was absurd to link Blunt and DeLay – though the two have worked closely for years to raise GOP money.
“To take the [alleged] illegalities of Tom DeLay and then say someone else is like him is a smear,” the Connecticut congressman said.

There does seem to be a sense among insiders that Blunt, even though he has been an integral part of the DeLay-created world, was more circumspect than DeLay. Or as a member put it to me, diplomatically, “He is more careful than other people.”