Billmon: Enter the Turd Blossom

The standard GOP line on Ronnie Earle is that he's a partisan Democrat on a political witch hunt, nothwithstanding the fact that only three of the 15 politicians Earle prosecuted prior to going after DeLay were Republicans. (Earle once even prosecuted himself because his campaign was late in filing his financial disclosures.)

In DeLay's version of reality, this makes Earle a "partisan fanatic" (which is way worse than being called ugly by a frog). By that same "logic," Patrick Fitzgerald must be the Republican Andrei Vishinsky, because he's also gone after crooked Democratic pols in Chicago, instead of limiting his investigations to the former GOP governor of Illinois and the Bush White House.