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I’m not a regular reader of the New York Post—though I usually note the headline when I walk past the newsstand in the morning—so I don’t know if the paper always takes the high road and the low road simultaneously as it does in today’s editorial, which blasts California senator (D) Barbara Boxer for her “low blow” aimed at Condi Rice:

Rice appeared before the Senate in defense of President Bush’s tactical change in Iraq, and quickly encountered Boxer.

“Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price,” Boxer said. “My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young.”

Then, to Rice: “You’re not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family.”

Breathtaking.

Simply breathtaking.

We scarcely know where to begin.

And the editorialist’s indignation builds and builds…until he/she warns:

[T]he next two years are going to be a time of bitterness and rancor, marked by pettiness of spirit and political self-indulgence of a sort not seen in America for a very long time.

Hmmm. Is it me or does the Post seem to be promising lots and lots of mud-slinging and smackdowns to the masses?