So I get e-mail from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and it’s — extraordinarily aggravating. I mean, I really want to root for the Dems as they muster up support against various GOP candidates and try to break the Republican one-party stranglehold on Congress. A worthy cause that I’d support even if I were a (real) Republican.
But, damn, people, the irony gets slathered on thick as, on the one hand, you quote Karl Rove saying something outrageously partisan, and then engage in the same rhetorical cheap shots and innuendo that have marked Republican scare tactics and talking points since at least the Newt Gingrich era. And if folks like DeLay and Frist and their ilk make my blood boil, listening to people like Pelosi talk (or write) is like the proverbial fingernails-on-the-blackboard.
*sigh*
I’m (mostly) a lifelong Democrat and a big, fat Leftie, but Reid and Pelosi make my skin crawl. 🙁