One of the more corrupt pundit phenomena is the way in which the most loyal and worshipful Bush followers, who spent the last five years praising the President and doing everything possible to enable his most radical policies, are now suddenly pretending to be so deeply dissatisfied with his rule. Now that the Bush movement is collapsing, they all want to pretend that they knew all along that things weren't going well and that the President was deeply flawed.

There is not one damn thing that is new about Iraq. Nothing about 2003 has changed recently. If you are now unhappy about what we did in 2003 you should have been unhappy about it 2 years ago. In fact, if you'd bothered to be unhappy about it two years ago you could have actually fired the people responsible for it instead of punishing a bunch of other people who had much less to do with it, but happen to have the misfortune of playing for the same team.

Occam's razor suggests that the people of this country just aren't down with the Republicans in the wake of Katrina, and the conservative pundit class is trying to save itself while diverting attention from that issue. I hope thats the answer.

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Peggy Noonan and the rotting pundit class