An addendum to that last post about what the new New Media Department has cooking up in its quest to revitalize the GOP and regain a foothold in official Washington, at a time when Democrats control the House, Senate, and White House. Republican Party headquarters has been spending its energies putting together an online "Welcome Memo Generator" that auto-constructs snarky messages of greeting for new Democratic Senator Arlen Specter.

Playing along is simple, if the personality-shifting required is convoluted. You, Average Jane or Joe, assumes the role of a high profile Democratic official. You can select to be "Senator Harry," "Speaker Nancy," or "Senator Chris D." -- that's Connecticut's Chris Dodd, for those of you not up on the list of latest Republican targets. For good measure, you can also choose to be the dread White House TelePrompter.

Select a character/machine to play, and out pops a welcome message for Senator Specter. You'll no doubt have guessed that those notes of welcome are really a chance to air favorite Republican charges against those officials. For Reid, it's land deals in Vegas. For Pelosi, it's flights on military plans. For Dodd, it's mortgages he received on his home.

As for the White House TelePrompter, turns out that inanimate piece of equipment is guilty of placing the country in hock to forces abroad: "Welcome to the Democrats. I look forward to working together to borrow more money from China and the Middle East."