Maybe the best ever, but deconstructing the bitchy bitter and generally stupid woman that is Maureen Dowd is a very rich lode of material.

In any case, Kathy G., who describes herself as “A shrill feminist, bleeding heart liberal, hardcore policy wonk, political junkie, ardent cinephile, and lover of 19th century novels.” does a very good job in explaining what is wrong with MoDo. An excerpt:

But there’s another problem with the opening sentence of the Dowd column. “I’m not bitter.” Oh Maureen — who the hell do you think you’re kidding? The woman positively soaks in bitterness. Marinates in it. It oozes out of her pen and pours into just about every damn word she writes. Her bitterness has utterly corroded her soul. It’s turned her into a twisted freak whose chief pleasure in life seems lie in vicious, barking-mad attacks on the only people capable of ending our long national nightmare — the Democrats. Seriously, if there is any other single person in the media who’s been a more powerful enabler of Republican high crimes and misdemeanors than Modo, I don’t know who it is.

No go read.

And could someone explain to me how the hell she ever got a job as a columnist? Dowd writes about things like health care policy with all the depth of a girl who wants to be in the “in crowd” in high school talks about some lesser being’s choice in shoes at the prom.