Not that House Republicans care what folks from the reality-based community think about their (shudder) leadership candidates . . .

. . . but once again Jon Stewart got it right. On tonight's Daily Show, after showing creepy-crawly clips of the ghastly trio of Shadegg, Boehner and Blunt all vowing reform-reform-reform (by which I'm sure they mean "reform" in the spirit of The Boss in Preston Sturges's timelessly classic The Great McGinty—remember, he was the Reform Party) and each calling attention to his rivals' considerable corruption taints, Jon characterized the campaign pledge the unholy trinity seemed to be making thusly:

"As House majority leader, we would vow to get rid of people like us."