The DCCC is firing back at Freedom's Watch, the right-wing group that's been targeting key Democratic House incumbents and challengers with radio ads on energy policy, with their own $175,000 ad campaign in ten districts across the country.

The ads tie the Republican candidates to Big Oil interests that want favors done for them in Congress, and say that this is why listeners have heard nasty attack ads on the radio lately. One of them in particular, in the Louisiana district picked up this past Spring by Democrat Don Cazayoux, even starts with the audio of the Freedom's Watch ad before cutting away to debunk it:

"We interrupt this negative attack to bring you ... the truth," the announcer says.

In many ways Freedom's Watch has become the true rival of the DCCC. The National Republican Congressional Committee, the official campaign arm of the House GOP, has been chronically unable to raise money in sufficient amounts to compete. But this new ad campaign shows that the DCCC understands who the real enemy is.