Hypocritical Indignation

The Sideshow has a good post on the absurd hypocritical indignation of the Republicans to the Democrats suddenly finding some backbone. She picks out Betsy Newmark for special consideration:

For example, Betsy Newmark made this hilarious statement: "Apparently, bipartisanship is not a two-way street."

and then has this excellent commentary:

It's the kind of thing makes you want to pound the floor. These people aren't just people who ignore politics because they've got more important things to do, like picking up the kids from school and taking them to Little League and ballet lessons and things like that. They're not working in factories and coming home too drained to pick up the paper. They're political bloggers, for godssakes, and they are completely oblivious to what their own party has been doing in government.

Go read the entire post.