During the Watergate investigation, "dirty tricks" became known by a more vulgar term for having intimate relations with rats.

Back in the 1970s, Democrats decried those Republican-sanctioned "dirty tricks". But now, Michelle Malkin notes, Democrats suddenly think those same tactics are the rat's pajamas. Tickets to inaugural events, she notes, wound up in the hands of anarchists from the group known as "Code Pink," which sought to disrupt this week's inauguration.

The anarchists received their tickets, reportedly, from Congressional Democrats from New York and California.

Malkin writes: "If they wanted to disrupt the president's speech, the Democrats should have had the guts to do the dirty work themselves instead of hiding behind Code Pink's skirts."

It's not the first time Democrats have traded places with Watergate-era Republicans. In 1974, they forced Nixon to resign as president because he lied to the country. Then, in 1998, when a Democratic president lied to the country, Democrats decided it wasn't such a bad thing.

If nothing else, maybe Donald Segretti should be in line for a pardon.