I muchfully enjoyed former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett’s rant against Democratic lobbyist and fixer Lanny Davis, who had sniffed at Lovett for saying that he, Lanny Davis, in his abuse of language to shill for his clients, represented everything wrong with Washington. Lovett’s piece concluded thus:

Washington is filled with people making other people’s arguments for money. Anyone trying to do anything of good purpose is in a constant struggle to keep from drowning in the river of steaming bullshit served up by lobbyists and politicians and pundits and PR firms. They bend statistics, they do impressions of people who believe what they say, and all the while the country burns. And it is the height of arrogance to decry what’s happened to our politics when you are a bonded practitioner of what’s happened to our politics.

You want to be a pitchman for warlords? You want to carry the Devil’s water in Washington? Go for it. But just don’t tell me how to fu*king talk.

Michael Fumento’s unshirted broadside against the bug-eyed Right is pretty good too.