Just reading a thoroughly Pollyanna-ish piece about the Congressional Dems by Amy Sullivan under the hed Not As Lame As You Think.

(Round here, that would be ironic. To judge from her piece, she means it straight.)

It's in love with the terrible 2006=1994 analogy. Pretty poor stuff.

But includes the following:

the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) issued a crowing press release claiming that Nancy Pelosi had removed [Louise] Slaughter's report [America for Sale: The Cost of Republican Corruption] from her leadership website because of GOP pressure. Staff for both Slaughter and Pelosi got a chuckle out of the release because they knew the website simply automatically rotated the items featured on the homepage. But liberal bloggers jumped at the bait. To them, it was proof of Democratic cowardice. Using the NRCC release as his source, Matt Stoller at MyDD.com complained about Democratic "knuckling-under." David Sirota went further, writing: "[T]he House Democratic Leadership publicly pee[d] down its leg in knee-shaking fright, removing a major report on Republican corruption from its website. Why? Because they feared the GOP would yell at them about it."

The rotation story sounds to me like a fable devised by some desperate staffer. But it could be true, I suppose.

Or has this already been put to bed when I wasn't paying attention?