Today's Daily Schadenfreude: The GOP

I'm giving the Daily Schadenfreude award today to the entire Republican Party, which today settled the lawsuit brought by the state Democratic Party in New Hampshire for jamming Democratic GOTV calls back in 2002.

It's too bad the settlement was for only $135,000 when the Democrats were seeking $4 million in damages. However, there are still criminal indictments out there:

Former Republican State Committee Executive Director Charles McGee and consultant Allen Raymond served federal prison terms after pleading guilty to telephone harassment charges. McGee admitted masterminding the plot and paying Raymond $15,000 from the state Republican fund to find someone to carry out the scheme.

Former Republican National Committee operative James Tobin is appealing his telephone harassment conviction.

But the best part is, as New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Kathy Sullivan put it, "[o]ver the next five years, every time a Republican donor makes a donation to the Republican State Committee, they will know a portion of that is going to the Democratic Party."

That, my friends, is what schadenfreude is all about.

Congratulations to the Republican Party in New Hampshire and nationally ... today's Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!