Demagogue

As the WaPo reported today, Kos and some other liberal bloggers are putting the heat on Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.). They are unhappy with some of her votes and her willingness to "play nice" with moderates and the Bush administration.

I confess that I don't know a lot of specifics about Tauscher's voting record, but this paragraph of the WaPo article doesn't cast her in the best light:

[Tauscher] was once the only California Democrat to oppose Pelosi's campaign for leadership, but she now marvels that the speaker's performance has been "absolutely perfect -- and she looks so beautiful doing it!"

Not a lot of gravitas in a phrase like that. But Britney Spears and Ryan Seacrest would be proud.