Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Adam Nagourney/New York Times Edition)

Outsourced to Sisyphus Shrugged:

Sisyphus Shrugged - uh-huh.: when I read the execrable Adam Nagourney's piece about Democratic prospects in today's Times (shorter AdNags, as ever ready with an upside spin for the party he supports: Being a loser is the new black) I was struck by what he didn't say.... [W]e don't have the views of Democrats. We have Adam Nagourney telling us that his thumb tastes better than any other thumb in the whole world and we wish we could suck Adam Nagourney's thumb in the New York Times, but we can't, because he's Adam Nagourney and we're not, which is why, parenthetically, he has access to that shadowy but powerful group within the Democratic party, the "some" Democrats:

Indeed, some Democrats worry that the worst-case scenario may be winning control of Congress by a slim margin, giving them responsibility without real authority....

Then, at long last... a name... "Tony Coelho, a former House Democratic whip."

Tony Coelho.... Tony the guy who was tossed out of the Gore campaign because he was under criminal investigation.... Tony didn't reappear in politics until they needed a "Democratic insider" to trash Kerry Coelho.... [P]retty much everyone who was willing to talk to Nagourney on the record in terms that even vaguely suggested support for some portion of the putative reasoning behind this vaporous groundswell of strategic loss planning is someone who either jumped or was pushed out of Democratic politics....

[H]e did get this guy, who according to his HuffPo bio has a blog because his brother is Mickey Kaus: "Even though Ms. Pelosi enjoys notable support in her party, her performance was panned even by fellow Democrats. 'I was screaming at the TV as if it were Bush being interviewed'," wrote Stephen Kaus, a lawyer and contributor to huffingtonpost.com, a liberal blog....

I can't see any internal evidence in this remarkable bit of special pleading suggesting that anyone who even has access to our leadership gave Adam Nagourney any information on the yummy goodness of his thumb that he didn't already have.

And, of course, "some" Democrats do agree. I'm guessing maybe not so much the ones who vote [Democratic]...