There are strange doings in Palm Beach County, and we don't mean hanging chads.

* There are strange doings in Palm Beach County, and we don't mean hanging chads. Rush Limbaugh is under shameful attack from Democratic prosecutor Barry Krischer, who is up for reelection this year. As the world knows, Rush became hooked on pain medication, which he was taking for chronic back and neck pain. He has since gone through intense rehabilitation and continues to receive therapy. In Palm Beach County and elsewhere, this usually ends the matter--but Rush apparently provides too juicy a target for a hungry partisan prosecutor. Krischer's office first leaked stories to the media claiming that Rush was under investigation for money laundering. Next, it asserted that he was part of a drug ring. Now Krischer is supposedly looking into "doctor shopping." In this regard, Rush's medical records were seized from four different doctors' offices, without the government's following the usual subpoena process. Krischer then had Rush's prescription records posted on a public website, and they in turn were flashed across television screens for days. (A Florida appellate court is now considering the legality of the government's search, after ordering the records returned to the lower court and placed under seal.) In another move that raises serious ethical questions, Krischer released confidential communications between Rush's lawyer and the prosecutor's office in response to a public documents request. Krischer claimed that both the Florida bar and the state attorney general's top ethics official advised him to do it, but both deny it. This earned Krischer an ethics complaint filed by the Landmark Legal Foundation. Democrats have long wanted to get Rush Limbaugh, but he has a track record of making them look silly. And so it continues.