Letters to the Editor
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Taking the Bait
Once again, progressives have taken the bait, just like old Charlie Brown who couldn't resist kicking that football that Lucy held.
From now on, all Abramoff-gate reporting in the MSM will include the meme that there has been controversy over just how much this scandal is a bi-partisan scandal. This business with the WaPo will be used as an example of the intense partisanship around the question -- proof, if you will, of just how controversial the issue has become.
There is simply no need for the left to call out the SCMSM on all of their errors, especially to the exclusion of calling out the Republicans with equal or greater vigor. The fact that the left does harp on these things shows how Democratic leadership is failing: Democratic leaders should be able to move the debate by staking out positions that are newsworthy and force the debate onto our turf, thereby giving supporters something more compelling to support. Instead, we get incrementalism of the worst sort, and legions of supporters who have nothing to support.