TAPPED sets the record straight on Nanci Pelosi, and also offers a couple principles for us bloggers, readers, and political observers to follow:

1. A pundit or blogger is worth reading in inverse proportion to the frequency with which he or she uses the word "leftist."

2. A conservative pundit or blogger immediately loses whatever argument he or she is trying to make once they compare any Democrat in Congress to a socialist or Communist.

TAPPED is responsible enough to note that sometimes us liberals refer to all Republicans as "right-wingers". I think that's too responsible. In terms of the Senate, for example, I don't see McCain, Chaffee, Specter, or even Frist, Collins and Snowe that way all the time. And many Republicans have interesting quirks on various issues. For example, due to Mormon definitions of the beginning of life, Orrin Hatch went against his conservative buddies to support embryonic stem cell research. But the rest of them are "right wingers", haha.