DLC hires McCain aid Marshall Wittman -"Quote Cuisine" -nice profile below

[papau]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010301870.html

Bruce Reed, the DLC's president who hired the former McCain aide says, "Marshall is one of the most effective critics of the Bush Administration.

Quote Cuisine

He's Spooned Up Sound Bites For the Right and the Left.

By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 4, 2006; Page C01

Everybody wants some of Marshall Wittmann's wisdom. People keep calling, asking him to explain the mysteries of Washington.


<snip>She's right. Wittmann is a quote machine, a sound-bite jukebox. The American Journalism Review ranked him right up there with the legendary Norm Ornstein, Tom Mann and Larry Sabato -- guys who would be in the Quotemeister Hall of Fame if there were such a place, and maybe there should be.

But Wittmann isn't like those guys. They all have PhDs in political science. They're academics and professional analysts -- Ornstein at the American Enterprise Institute, Mann at the Brookings Institution, Sabato at the University of Virginia. But Wittmann is an activist. He came up the hard way. He's been a Trotskyite, a union organizer, a lobbyist, a government bureaucrat, a think tank cogitator, an aide to Sen. John McCain and -- despite the fact that he's Jewish -- the official spokesman for the Christian Coalition.

Which raises a perplexing question: Why the hell would anybody listen to the political thoughts of a guy knuckleheaded enough to get mixed up in movements formed by both Leon Trotsky and Pat Robertson?

[Warpy]

1. Republicans hiring another Republican's aide

and are any of us out here surprised by that?

[John Q. Citizen]

2. The DLC needs to remember founder Clinton's words. "If you

lie down with dogs, you are going to wake up with fleas." or something to that effect.