Parsing the Document.

Michelle Malkin is continuing to "Schiavo-Memo" blog:

I spoke with the Seattle Times' chief copy editor, Jim Mallery, yesterday. He confirmed that this article was excerpted directly from a Washington Post article distributed by the Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service. The statement that the memo was "distributed to Republican senators by party leaders" was in the Post's story. It was not added by a Seattle Times copy editor.

What commentators fail to note it says only "party leaders". Why must we assume it was REPUBLICAN party leaders? Perhaps the story is true, party leaders did distribute the memo that is leaders from the other party!