Good Riddance to a fool

I never say this about anyone, but I have to say it here: What an asshat! Not only did Sen. Mel Martinez’ counsel admit to penning the shameful “Talking Points Memo” (I can no longer refer to it as a “Document of Dubious Origin,” -sigh) full of misspellings and cynical, opportunist ideas, but then he cowered and hid and allowed mistrust between people to foment, rather than admitting his actions.

What a fool.

Well…this time, it was not a Dem-orchestrated Rathergate but a stupid GOP bit of foolishness, and we’ll have to buck up and take our licks.

Can’t you just imagine what Maureen Dowd is going to write this Sunday? She’ll start off, naturally, with a cutesy pop-reference title and devolve from there. And we’ll have to let her, this time. She’ll have to be allowed her fun and glory.

Ah, well. We sadly live in an era wherein lines are drawn and sides are most emphatically and necessarily being taken, and there are enough stupid people to go around that both sides have their share. I don’t feel TOO badly for having believed the document might have been a “democrat dirty trick,” if only because I thought the GOP wouldn’t misspell Terri Schiavo’s name!

We swallow our bitter with our sweet, and we keep moving. After all, we’ve learned from the masters all about “moving on,” haven’t we? :-)

And in the end, don’t allow the much more important story to be forgotten. Beyond the over-enthusiastic and blatant stupidity of this memo…Terri Schiavo, who lived, lives no more, and the means and manners by which her death was effected must be addressed, so that it does not happen again.

Jim Geraghty has a good take on it all.

Micky Kaus has more. Ed Morrissey, up to his eyeballs in his astoundingly good Adscam coverage (more on that later) is a good captain who notes that the sloppy presentation of the memo, alone, should have been enough to keep that swabby off the deck. He, along with the others, still wonders if the WaPo will address the poor reporting on the memo’s origins, which seemed to so many to suggest that the press, unsure if the document originated from the left or right, had its own worries that it might have originated from the left.Powerline comments here and here. Michelle Malkin has, I think, the best commentary on it and thinks Martinez’ office may have more ‘splainin’ to do and she quotes a few of her less-refined “tolerant, compassionate” liberal readers on the subject while she is at it. Very lame, some people are. LaShawn Barber is also dealing with chuckleheaded snots and re-stating her own positions for good measure.

Luckily for me, I have only Dingo’s nanabooboo and Joe Marshall’s rather satisfied glow to contend with! :-)