*gapes* What planet is Tom DeLay ON?

"We have witnessed the Democrats at their ugliest," intones Tom DeLay, the top House Republican, in an angry press release. "The Democrat's [sic] character assassination of Miguel Estrada was a political hate crime."

The above article from The Nation can be found here.

( Rant ahoy.. don't say you weren't warned, because I frankly don't want to hear it if you read this next and you're offended. )