Mara, aren't you glad you don't have to take offense at this anymore... since you left DC?
lol- I think it's out of the frying pan and into the fire leaving D.C. for ultra-lib New Haven, CT ;)
And for the record, while I was in D.C. I was a lowly graduate student, not affiliated with the five-sided puzzle palace or the inner workings of our political construct. Although, I don't think I'd do a worse job than those currently doing it...