An event of historic significance

by Dave Weigel

Buried in a classic Politico VandeHarris Big-Thinker on how Obama's Democrats are more or less doomed at the polls, we find this:

The liberal blogs cheer the fact that Stan McChrystal's scalp has beenreplaced with David Petraeus's, even though both men are equallyhawkish on Afghanistan, but barely clapped for the passage of healthcare. They treat the firing of a blogger from the Washington Post as anevent of historic significance, while largely averting their gaze fromthe fact t...