ENROUTE TO UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- Attention members of the Fourth Estate. You are missing an extraordinary opportunity to add yet another meaningless moniker to your pathetic pantheon of social stereotypes. To the list that includes such ludicrous labels as "Soccer Moms," "Angry White Males," "Gen Xers," and "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists," you can now add "Beltway Memo Writers."

This group of scribes has not yet reached the vaunted social status of the Judson Welliver Society -- a group of former White House speechwriters -- but if their memoranda continue to impact the literary genre as they have over the past several months, they are well on their way.

Topping the list of recent notable memoranda is one titled, "The Long Hard Slog," by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In it, Rumsfeld posed all the right questions and provided strategic insight to his staff about the steps needed to win the war on terror, but Democrats and their media allies jumped on it as "evidence" that he should be replaced.

In recent weeks, several memos have surfaced that indicate that Democrats and liberal activists are abusing government institutions for political purposes. Among these is a memorandum titled, "Pulling the Trigger," whose author remains anonymous, but is reported to be a Democrat staffer on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The memo outlines a plan to abuse what is supposed to be a nonpartisan committee entrusted with classified intelligence and national security information to attack the president and defeat him in his 2004 bid for re-election.

A series of memos, written by Democrats staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the appointment of federal judges has also come to light. We'll call these "Bigotry and the Bench," for their offensive manipulation of minorities. One, written by a staffer for Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., instructs Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to block the confirmation of Miguel Estrada to the federal bench because, in their eyes, he is "especially dangerous because ... he is Latino." Another memo, written by Teddy Kennedy's staffers, urges Democrat senators to delay the confirmation of one of President Bush's appointees to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals so the new judge could not influence the court's decision on affirmative action.

Then last week, there was public disclosure of "The Osama-Saddam Diaries," a memo written by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith to the Senate Intelligence Committee. In it, Feith recounts extensive connections between Saddam Hussein's regime and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist organization going back more than 10 years.

Stephen Hayes, reporter for The Weekly Standard, which obtained a copy of the memo, wrote in the Nov. 24 edition that Saddam Hussein had an "operational relationship" with Osama bin Laden "from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, Al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq and Iraqi financial support for Al Qaeda."

In their attempt to continue to undermine the president, the media is largely ignoring this memo -- and the few that are reporting on it have cast doubts about its contents. Continued...