"...they've picked a fight with the wrong guy"

All right! Let's hear it for John Kerry and hope that the floodgates are finally open. Joshua Marshall gets it exactly right when he says how the Democrats need to fight back:

"For the purposes of our present discussion, the particulars of Kerry's remark are almost beside the point. This is no better than cheap bullying practiced by the president's hacks. And, in political life as in personal life, there is only one way to deal with bullies: you must fight back against them with at least the ferocity and intensity that they use against you. They understand nothing else and deserve nothing better. There's no reasoning with them, no apologizing to them, no hashing out the particulars of remarks you've made."

Thank you, Mr. Marshall!