"I LOVE me some John Ashcroft! Don't NOBODY be talking bad about John Ashcroft!!! YOU JUST SHUT YOUR STINKING MOUTH ABOUT JOHN ASHCROFT!!!!!!!!"

After Howard Dean said that John Ashcroft is not a patriot, Tom Delay has issued an official press release from his office calling Gov. Dean, among other things, a "cruel and extremist demogogue".

Whoa.

Ignoring the whole "pot-calling-the-kettle-black" aspect of all of this, who knew that the Attorney General had such a special place in the majority whip's heart. People might start to get ideas about them, you know....