Resume of the Writer Responsible for GOP Talking Points Memo on Schiavo

"Darling, 39, has been an active conservative for more than 15 years and is a former board member of Young Americans for Freedom. He was co-chairman of Conservative Working Group, an organization for Republican Senate aides.

Darling has an undergraduate degree from Salem State College in his native Massachusetts and a law degree from New England School of Law. He worked for former senator Steve Symms (R-Idaho) and the late Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-Ga.), then was counsel to former senator Robert H. Smith (R-N.H.).

Darling briefly detoured to lobbying as a partner at Alexander Strategy Group, from 2003 until he joined Martinez's office in January. The firm's chairman is Edwin A. Buckham, who was chief of staff to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) when he was majority whip.

Buckham said Darling worked with a coalition of airline pilots on the guns-in-the-cockpit issue. "He would take making a mistake very hard," Buckham said. "Our staff loved Brian. We didn't want to lose him, but he loves the Hill. He is still going to have a bright future in this town." - from the Washington Post today. Darling is, of course, an absolutely typical apparatchik of the religious right. Maybe the partisan blinders over at Powerline will eventually fray.