If the Democratic press flack who ghost wrote the Pelosi-Hoyer “un-American” op-ed is keeping a low profile around the office this week. That’s the amazing thing: that such a politically stupid line made it through various layers of professional scrutiny. I can only imagine how psyched the editors at USA Today were when they saw that in there. Shhhh don’t say anything, they might take it out.

Oh: Sorry to disillusion anybody out there who thought Pelosi and Hoyer passed drafts of their oped back and forth like high-school students hammering out prose for the school paper.