Your Media At Work

Have you noticed a distinctly different type of coverage of Congress under the Democrats? If you have not, you should have:

The Republican minority has obstructed as much before one half of this Congress is over with than the Demcoratic minority did the entire previous Congress.

Rovemort's strategy is working. Republicans are blocking the will of the American people. And they're managing to saddle Democrats with the blame. Bob Borosage predicted it exactly. But the mainstream media simply doesn't get it. Jay Leno jokes about the Democratic Congress's four-day work week—but the previous Congress only worked two days a week! NPR quotes retiring Republican Congressman David Hobson: "I don't think they're learning from our mistakes." They're "trying to ram their bills through instead of finding a compromise." But the SCHIP bill, with 18 Republican Senate votes, and the FISA bill, crafted to precisely fix the technical problem the White House complained about, already were compromises. The Republicans blocked them nonetheless. "It would seem to me that reaching out and working together is what the public wants," they quote Hobson. But that's exactly what the Democrats have been doing.

If you're a Democrat, you lose in the media either way.