Via Ramesh Ponnuru at National Review, you’ve got to love this golden quote from yesterday’s New York Times editorial.

But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.

His actions were only legal, you see, because no one had taken the time to make them illegal. He’s only free because he didn’t do anything that was actually illegal. But if what he did was actually made illegal before he did it, he’d so be in prison. Or something.

Also, the ocean is only wet because it’s not dry. And grass is only green because it’s not purple.

Remember: This isn’t an op-ed. This comes from the editorial board of the New York Times. Such is the current state of the paper of record. The Gray Lady appears to have lost her mind.

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds.