Now it is one thing to be a GOP Shill, a la Howie Kurtz, when your shilling can't be utterly exposed to the world as obvious whoring. And
Kurtz's's whoring BEFORE Mel Martinez fessed up is reprehensible, but not utterly stupid. I imagine he'll just shut his mouth now.
But what is Kaus' excuse? He starts shilling NOW? Repeating Powerline and Michelle Malkin's idiocies verbatim? Not only is Kaus a GOP whore, he is a stupid GOP whore:
. . . This is almost the reverse of what Allen now reports. . . . We don't know whether it was distributed to any Republican senator other then the senator whose staffer wrote it (although it's hard to believe it wasn't given to at least some other GOP lawmakers). Allen's story left the now-unsupported impression that Republican senators were conspiratorially reading the memo amongst themselves; d) The whole "memo" fuss, as played up by WaPo and ABC's Linda Douglass, was wildly overdone even if the memo was a GOP leadership document--as if senators never consider what is a good political issue, as if that's a no-no in a democracy. . . . If all that was involved was a staff memo Martinez gave to Harkin, Allen's story was way out of whack. The memo wasn't close to being worth the play it got in WaPo or in Douglass' report. (It's not worth the current Senate investigation either. What's the crime--politicians considering politics?) ... 9:56 P.M. link
I mean, honestly, how stupid can you get? Er, Mister Mickey, "the story that wouldn't go away" was the Powerline/Malkin/Idiot campaign that this was a Dem dirty trick. This was supposed to be Rathergate 2.
So, please, never ever ever ever point to Kaus as someone worth reading, or as a Dem or for any reason frankly. He completes his journey to oblivion now. At least, we must hope so.