Kremlin

Rosenbergs, move over. There's a new commie in town.

Jeff Merkley's spokesman might want to blacklist Steve Novick. According to Matt Canter, Novick's base is from the liberal heart of downtown Portland, or as he described it to The Politico, the "inner circle of the Kremlin."

Novick has been infiltrating Merkley's once assured chances at taking on Sen. Gordon Smith come November. Now Novick wants Merkley to recant his reference and liberate the citizens of Portland from the Soviet fortress.

"Apparently it wasn't enough for Jeff Merkley to divide Democrats by trying to manufacture controversy about some previous comments I made on the internet, now Merkley is adopting two classic Republican tactics: red-baiting and trying to divide rural and urban Oregonians," said Novick.