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There is growing unrest among the more prominent commentators and media outlets that usually cheerlead for Barack Obama. They are upset that Congress is being allowed to mangle beyond recognition the president’s vision. Yes, the stimulus bill was a bit of a legislative disaster, but something needed to pass while the global economy teetered on the brink. However, that is no excuse for the same happening to the flagship plans on climate change and health. Here, Clive Crook in the Financial Times and David Brooks in the New York Times start to vent their frustration at the way in which...

Everywhere you turn these days, you find the press in an agitated-to-furious state about the McCain-Palin campaign. Many reporters are downright angry, according to the Washington Post's media critic Howard Kurtz, in part because of the "lipstick on a pig" controversy. That's obvious to anyone who has watched the news this last week. Many in the press are lacerating themselves for covering this story, and they blame the McCain campaign for having done it to them.    A broader anti-McCain critique is embodied by one of the Washington Post's resident Obamaphiles, E.J. Dionne, Jr., "The campaign is a blur of...