Serpent-head on "Man-dates"

From yesterday's Press the Meat:

MR. RUSSERT: George Bush have a mandate?

MR. CARVILLE: The only politician in America I know with a mandate is Jim McGreevey, Tim.

MS. MATALIN: Oh, gee.

MR. CARVILLE: No, of course he does. I mean, he's going to...

MR. RUSSERT: Who's running this guy's material, Mary? This...

MS. MATALIN: Oh, I'm not. I'm not getting up anymore.

Captain Ed raged at installment fifty bazillion and three of the Left/Right double standard:

"Can you imagine the outcry if Karl Rove - or hell, even Mary Matalin - had made fun of James McGreevy's sexual orientation on national TV? ACT-UP would already have pickets outside Capitol Hill demanding someone get fired, and the New York Times would be clucking its editorial tongue at the GOP for insensitivity and sexual bigotry. The Ragin' Cajun probably gets a pass."

Well, of course he does. As the base drum player in my high school marching band cracked at the end of a competition in which it was day-glo obvious which school was going to win (hint: it wasn't us) and the PA announcer tried to gin up some phony suspense before his announcement of the results, "Nooooooo shit; Christ, what was your first guess?"

Our band and the ones on either side of us collapsed in a mass convulsion of laughter.

Not unlike I did when Limbaugh played the audio clip of Carville's crack this morning.

The truth none of us 'Pubbies wants to admit is that if Carville were on our side, we'd treat him like a rock star. But he's a donk, so we loathe him.

But you can't completely despise a donk with a wicked sense of humor. And frankly that's a trait that has all but vanished from the contemporary left.

If we have to get it from libs that look like Ming the Merciless after a series of radiation treatments, I, for one, am not going to complain.