As Matt Stoler lays out
over at MyDD, this was
not a fun week to be a right-winger.
One thing that's striking to me this week is how the right-wing was utterly destroyed this week. They lost HUGE on Bolton. They lost badly on Specter's dishonorable FISA bill. And the kickoff of the war on terror campaign, the ABC movie 'Path to 9/11', has been seriously derailed as a fraudulent piece of propaganda.
Matt's right. Granted, it's unclear whether the Bolton nomination is totally dead, and some sort of FISA rewrite by and for the Bush Admin may still happen, and ABC may still show their baldly-slanted (and rumor has it, badly-made) propaganda piece. But still ...
Bolton was supposed to be a shoe-in. He isn't. The FISA thing was supposed to be yet another rubberstamp for Bush. It isn't. And whether or not 'Path to 9/11' gets aired, it's taken a serious credibility hit, as have both ABC and Disney.
And here's the icing on the cake: This 3-fer happened during what many people consider to be the first week of election season.
Sure, there's two months left to go. And yeah, I'm sure Karl Rove et al have lots more things up their blood-soaked sleeves.
But it's a hell of a start, isn't it?