I know, we Kossacks love to hate her sometimes. Still Maureen Dowd's Sunday NYT column makes this critical point:
Now when Republicans get caught flouting the principles they dictate, they are not able to practice hypocrisy with such impunity.
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In a column headlined Pharisees on the Potomac, Dowd opens with a signature glib line:
Like cats that have lost their whiskers, the Republicans seem off balance now that they have lost their talent for hypocrisy.
She runs down a few of the Top 10: the unchurched but God-spouting Reagan; the ghost of Specter beating up Anita Hill for Clarence Thomas; the philanderers' crusade against the philandering Clinton.
They're still hypocritical, she says, but today they can no longer count on the press and the people to swallow their cr*p like it was candy.
Today -- forgive me for repeating it, I love the money quote --
. . . when Republicans get caught flouting the principles they dictate, they are not able to practice hypocrisy with such impunity.
OK, that's enough, go and read the column for yourselves. Me, I'm headed back to savor it some more.