Occam's Blunt Instrument

As Josh Marshall points out, the new Powerline-line on the Schiavo/Martinez/Darling memo is that despite its having been written as a talking points memo, i.e. as the sort of thing whose contents are spread about and repeated, the memo was nevertheless not distributed to Republicans (and hence Mike Allen's job ought to be forfeit) because no Republicans have come forward on the record to say they received it. Interesting how the folks who brought you Rathergate are now willing to believe that a Republican-drafted talking points memo wound up in the posession of Tom Harkin and no one else outside the Martinez staff. And if Mike Allen claims that an anonymous Martinez staffer told him that the memo went out to other Republicans (forget about the problem of anonymice for now), well we already know that Mike Allen is a liar---Mike Allen falsely claimed that the memo was written by a Republican. Remember?

Not you either? Is what you remember more like this:

"The memo 'does not sound like something written by a conservative; it sounds like a liberal fantasy of how conservatives talk. What conservative would write that the case of a woman condemned to death by starvation is 'a great political issue'? Maybe such a person exists, but I doubt it.'" - Powerline