Idealogue For Hire

Mark Johnson passed along this piece by Mark Leibovich with a note: "This guy does some great work on Washington politics, a subject I thought I was pretty much sick of. Some nifty turns of phrase. A very bold, assertive lead, as opposed to the timid, bend-over-backwards-to-be-fair style so many political writers adopt."

Read the story: Senator Joseph I. Lieberman announced Tuesday that he had hired a new spokesman, which is not in itself that noteworthy, except that the said spokesman, Marshall Wittmann, is one of the great career vagabonds, ideological contortionists and political pontificators ever to inflict himself on a city full of them.

To say that Mr. Wittmann defies classification is…