The Death of the LWM

And Wlady's dancing on its grave:

Long ago Bush made it clear he regards the Washington press corps as a special interest whose views don't reflect those of most Americans. Like my old Irish setter who always was surprised to find ocean water salty each time we went to the beach, these media folk still haven't figured out that Bush doesn't fear them -- let alone regard them in any way his equal. He's tried to signal that our government comprises three branches only, but they haven't been very perceptive.

So what do the Democrats and their mouthpieces do now? Lie low? Buy time? Reconnoiter on Cape Cod? Unless it's a mirror they're staring at, they're not ones to engage in self-reflection. But powerlessness and paralysis do have a way of reminding the afflicted that maybe things aren't going too well. In this case, that the anti-Bush party is not the governing party, that the anti-Bush press does not get the first and last word, and that the United States as a polity is indeed more diverse than they ever dreamed.

This is why David Gregory et al are so angry. They're irrelevant, as the elections of 2000 and 2004 have made abundantly clear.