The Next Trick Up Bug Man Tom DeLay's Sleeve? Exterminate the Prosecutor

Judd at Think Progress breaks this ugly bit of bugdom:

On an interview this morning on Fox News Radio’s Tony Snow Show, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) revealed a plan to have the Texas legislature oust district attorney Ronnie Earle, the prosecutor who charged DeLay with money laundering:

Transcript:
SNOW: Okay, so at this point, you know — are you willing to let bygones be bygones?
DELAY: Absolutely not. Texas should not allow a district attorney from Travis County have this kind of power. And they can take his power away from him because there was the Texas legislature that gave him this power. And I think that will happen in the next session of the Texas legislature.
SNOW: Oh, really?
DELAY: Yes.

DeLay sounds like someone who is really confident of his ability to win on the merits in a court of law.

No, this is no surprise. DeLay's whole modus operandi is to squash any bug that gets in his way.

But I don't want to see this happen. Earle has seemed pretty even handed in his investigations and prosecutions, which is how it should be. Prosecutions should not be political and partisan, although they too often are.