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You know, MY mother is happy to see me during the holidays.

And it’s not because she agrees with my politics: she doesn’t.  Mom is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and Obama supporter.  But we don’t fight over politics over the Thanksgiving or Christmas tables.  Not coincidentally, my mother’s also someone who has never felt the need to embarrass and berate her children on CSPAN:

Brad and Dallas Woodhouse are now the champions of awkward CSPAN calls, after the politically divided brothers ended up taking a call from their mom.

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She’d called to take issue with something her kids said on air: That the brothers’ political bickering — you see, one is liberal, and the other is conservative — is typical of most families. “I don’t know many families that are fighting at Thanksgiving,” she said. “I’m hoping you’ll have some of this out of your system when you come here for Christmas. I would really like a peaceful Christmas.”

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#rsrh DNC spokesman praises ‘Bush tax cuts.’

Hey, when do you think that the Democrats are going to stop writing, starring in, and producing the raw footage for our attack ads?  It’s starting to feel like we should be reporting it as an in-kind contribution.

Partial transcript of DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse, courtesy of Jim Geraghty:

“Broadly speaking, Republicans and Democrats don’t want to see, especially at a time where the economy needs all the fuel it can get, don’t want to see us raising taxes on the middle class. So for example, some of the Bush tax cuts did some good things for the middle class, and certainly don’t want to see, this time, tax increases on the middle class.”

You may remember Brad Woodhouse from the time that he and the DNC passively-aggressively [probably be for the best if I remove that phrase*; also, link fixed] the guy who wanted to try to shoot Eric Cantor.  I must say, the specter of DOOM on the horizon seems to have made him and the DNC a bit more… cautious… since those far-off days…

Moe Lane

*Mind you, no direct cause-and-effect link between the two.  So stipulated.