Lefty Soapbox

So a few weeks ago, a memo leaked saying that the Terri Schiavo issue would be a great way to fire up the Republican's base and a great way to score some points. Democrats were outraged by the memo, saying it was playing politics with an issue no one should even be touching. Republicans countered, saying none of them had written the memo. What's more, some conservative bloggers claimed that Democrats had manufactured the memo to make Republicans look bad. Now, that would be rather awful if the Democrats had done this.

Instead it turns out that a Republican staffer did, in fact, write the memo.

Oops.

To be fair, the staffer in question claims he has no idea how he got out, that it was just a rough draft of something he was working on, and that he has no idea how it ever got off his computer, since he didn't print it. And the senator in question has no idea how it got into his hands either, even though he claimed he never saw it, and has no idea how he could have mistakenly passed a Democrat the memo when he didn't even know he had it in the first place.

Did you follow that?

Yeah, me neither.