What Digby Said

Really folks? People are upset over John Harwood, the Snidely Whiplash/Gargamel of the Villagers? He says a White House source said something that will probably upset the Left, and half the Left immediately takes the bait and gets upset. The White House has totally disavowed something that anyone with one iota of common sense would go "This is John Harwood being a toolbag again, ignore him."

It's possible that a White House official did say it; I certainly wouldn't put it past them. But I would guess that there's an equal chance that if he or she did, it's because the official watches Harwood saying it on TV every other week and was currying favor with him. After all, there is no villager more contemptuous of the left than John Harwood.

And yet here we go down the log flume ride again, ignoring the signs that say "You WILL get wet, you MAY get soaked" and wondering why we're covered in that water stuff again.

Played like a piano, guys.