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Spinning the Unspinnable

You've got to hand it to the Wall Street Journal editorial staff. They take their partisanship seriously. While fair weather Republicans like Michelle Malkin, Bay Buchanan, and the folks at the Washington Times are distancing themselves from the House Republican leadership in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal, the diehard partisans at the Journal continue onward, undeterred. To them, nothing is unspinnable, even a scandal in which House Republican leaders appear to have turned a blind eye to a sexual predator in their midst in order to retain control of a contested congressional seat. These guys live for the challenge of defending the indefensible.

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