Speaking of Moral Values - the "DeLay Rule"

Everything you could possibly want to know and more about the Delay rule can be found at Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo. He's been fairly obsessive about the whole thing, to the point of doing individual posts for every congressman who has come out with whether they were for or against the new rule.

What I've been wondering is how long it would take before the DeLay thugs started going whole-hog smearing the Texas DA, Ronnie Earle, who started the proceedings that have led to the indictment of two DeLay cronies, and is threatening to lead to the indictment of DeLay himself. Fortunately, Ronnie Earle has lobbed a wonderfully concise and eloquent preemptive strike, in the form of this editorial in the New York Times. Among other things, it's kind of hard to accuse a man of partisanship against a Republican when the vast majority of the elected officials that he's brought to justice over the years have been Democrats. But the article goes far beyond that. A very good read.