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Awright. One Reporter's Opinion, part trois or so.

Hey... didja know that Al Gore has a big house? And that this house uses electricity? And that this is news?

Sheesh.

So, let me get this straight.

When Democrats are wealthy, they're not supposed to talk about poverty if they live in a big house. When Democrats live in a big house, they're apparently not supposed to use public utilities to heat it or to provide light.

However, when you're a Republican, you can talk about restoring honor and dignity to the White House even if you allow male escorts in the press pool, you appoint people to rig federal procurements, you destroy the careers of US covert assets, you pay journalists to pimp your policy agenda, or you waste billions of borrowed dollars and thousands of lives on a lie.

This is simply the pearl-clutching Republican version of class warfare. Any person who lives in a mansion who doesn't vote Republican is a "wealth traitor" and these blibbering bumblers of the punditocracy can't help but tut-tut and tsk-tsk and scream "hypocrisy."

(Which is ironic in and of itself, since hypocrisy is oxygen in the GOP political biosphere.)