Informed Speculation

When Howard Fineman and Eleanor Clift get together, there’s enough brainpower to slightly singe bread. I can’t recall actually seeing the two co-author a piece before, so I knew I was in for something special. I didn’t have to wait long; the opening paragraph:

In the Tom DeLay era—now at least temporarily ended—a meeting of the House Republican Conference usually was a ceremonial affair, at which “Leadership” (always a single word, spoken with a mixture of awe and fear) clued in the flock on Done Deals. The proceedings had the spontaneity of a Baath Party conclave.

Ooohhh, that’s subtle…

The rest is more of the same: a remarkably one-sided look at the Administration’s current woes that would have you convinced that the Bush Administration is the most crooked bunch to ever come down the pike – if you didn’t know better, and of course you do. But hey, Eleanor Clift was involved, so it’s all to be expected…

UPDATE 4:52 p.m. central: Our good friend Academic Elephant has more, with a bonus tie-in to our old buddy Frank Rich…