Maureen Dowd Borrows <i>Mean Girls</i>'s Burn Book

After Maureen Dowd unleashed a piece accusing Republican women of being Mean Girls in which she showed herself guilty of every kind of mean tone she accused others of, Dana Perino penned an excellent piece entitled "

Mean Maureen" which called Dowd out on her second-grade arguments.

Dowd writes:

"We are in the era of Republican Mean Girls, grown-up versions of those teenage tormentors who would steal your boyfriend, spray-paint your locker and, just for good measure, spread rumors that you were pregnant. ... These women — Jan, Meg, Carly, Sharron, Linda, Michele, Queen Bee Sarah and sweet wannabe Christine — have co-opted and ratcheted up the disgust with the status quo that originally buoyed Barack Obama."

Last time I checked, the only ones hurling accusations of suspicious pregnancies were Democrats trying to destroy Sarah Palin's reputation.

Meanwhile, it's Meg Whitman calling people "whores" and bringing up hiring an illegal immigrant who lied to her employer...oh, wait, that's her Democrat opponent doing that.

And how ironic that Ms. Dowd, usually wailing about the oppression of women, now takes time out to criticize those women who actually have enough backbone to tell the truth. As long as she wants to rail against "Mean Girls" in politics, why doesn't she criticize Sen. Barbara Boxer? The ultimate arm-twister Nancy Pelosi?

Instead of being excited about the strong voice these women have in politics, it looks like Ms. Dowd is stuck in the past.