So somehow, the AP got away with running a 1200 word
story headlined "Prospective Democratic Chairs all Liberal" that fails to quote any of the prospective democratic chairs, though the reporter did manage to speak to a GOP lobbyist and a "conservative democrat." What do we learn, then, since none of the potential chairs get quoted?
So who are the chairmen to be?
_a Polish-American lawyer with a reputation for making witnesses quiver.
_a die-hard liberal from New York's Harlem with 35 years in the House.
_a free-spending progressive from Wausau, Wis.
_one of the few remaining "Watergate babies" swept into Congress in 1974.
The article goes on in that vein, opining on Charlie Rangell's New York accent and bemoaning the possibility of "the House being led by a San Franciscan and so many left-leaning chairmen."
Sometimes, things are so awful they're hard to criticize, and this might be one of those cases. But I do wonder when we'll get treated to a story on the radical conservative house chairs culled from rampant stereotyping and interviews with moveon and a party moderate.