Wolf Blitzer treats Creepy Kenny Mehlman to a heaping helping of tough-talking Howard Dean

In fairness to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, yesterday at the gym I caught him dialoguing with RNC Chaircreep Ken Mehlman, and he confronted him with the clip of his DNC counterpart, Howard Dean, insisting that the recipients of Jack Abramoff's largesse were all Republicans.

Creepy Kenny (it's hard not to feel an overpowering urge to haul off and smack the mutant life form—except you expect he'd just purr and plead, "Ooh, do it again!") promptly segued into a "statesmanlike" plea that these urgently needed reforms not become mired in partisanship. Sigh!

It might be comical, if you didn't have the feeling that a lot of the country is buying the "they all do it" defense.

Footnote: Now wouldn't it be interesting if the national debate could somehow be framed that way? In this corner, Howard Dean. Lurking in that corner, Creepy Kenny.