House majority leader Rep. John Boehner: “I’ll be the first to admit it: The Republican Party took a beating this election cycle.”

As hopelessly and hilariously welcome-to-last-week as that sounds, it’s lighting-fast comprehension when compared with the terrapin speed of Dan Rather. Dan Rather, two years ago: “If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I’d like to break that story.”

Let alone being first to admit it, Rather still hasn’t even gotten in the queue, as our Donna Martinez recently learned, to the amusement of the Triangle.

HT: BOTW.