You've probably read this WaPo story about how the NRCC and the RNC are going to spend some $50 million plus on negative advertising this fall, since they really don't have any other option to try to hold down their losses in Congress. I mean, it's not like anyone has a record to run on, or that as a party the Republicans have any new ideas about governing. The name to keep in mind as they start the slime machine is that of the man in charge of it, Terry Nelson. As Josh Marshall reminds us, he has connections to the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal of 2002, which has resulted in criminal convictions, and to Tom DeLay and TRMPAC, also from 2002. Sounds like the perfect man for this kind of job, doesn't he?