Once again The Daily Show hits one out of the ballpark with this piece on the congressional softball league which I remember fondly from a summer internship on the Hill. But like all things in D.C. these days, power and partisanship led the republicans to break from tradition and form their own softball league. But sticking with recent tradition, republicans refused to speak on camera when confronted about their shenanigans and hid behind their lawyers (reminding me of a recent altercation I had with a republican lawyer who chose to hide behind his wife rather than speak to me directly). Or, as Daily Show correspondent Dan Bakkedahl poetically put it, they acted like "pussies". Unfortunately, like most things republicans do these days, there are serious consequences to their actions. And it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry when Bakkedahl asks a republican operative at the end of the segment if he "would say that [his] decision to storm out in the middle of an interview reflect the general dickishness amongst republicans that's probably responsible for the fact that New Orleans is under water".