Buy Mom "Caucus of Corruption"

Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan of GOP Bloggers and Blogs for Bush have just released a book entitled Caucus of Corruption and it's widely expected to be this year's *must have* Mother's Day gift.  Nothing says "I love you, Mom" like a book dedicated to cataloging those widespread, yet seldom reported ethical and legal lapses of some of our favorite new Democratic leaders.

See how the apologists excitedly denounce it?  That's how you know it's working.

Matt and Mark were kind enough to send me an advance copy, though I'm thus far delinquent in submitting a formal review.  Suffice it to say CoC is a strikingly well-researched, handily portable compendium of a stunning glut of scandals and misdeeds, since respun and rebranded (though rarely refuted) by the new majority as "distractions" and "smears".

If you have liberal friends who tape pictures of Nancy Pelosi and Jack Murtha inside their lockers or who lecture you at every turn about Tom Delay and Duke Cunningham, this book makes for a terribly useful quick reference.  I don't think it's overstating the case to suggest that there's not an anti-Republican slight that can be slung that can't be countered with a bawdy, "Oh yeah, oh yeah?  Well what about..." followed by a quick thumbing-through of Caucus of Corruption and subsequent recitation of an anecdote of equal or greater vileness.  In that sense, Caucus likely deserves a spot alongside the great barroom reference guides, like the Guinness Book or the Golden Tee shot diagram faceplate.

Go on out and pick up a copy (or do it the lazy, newfangled way).  Or don't you love your mother enough to want her to win bar fights?