The Pundit Class Still Thinks We Can Win in Eyerack

Yesterday I was listening in as Diane Rehm was talking to one of her guests from the Washington pundit class (this episode had Clarence Page, Jerry Seib (WSJ), and Byron York). I think Clarence Page was supposed to be the resident "liberal", but of course it doesn't matter because once you get two or more Washington "journalists" in front of a camera or microphone they all sound the same. Despite the recent polls that show not only that a significant majority of people want the country to begin our exit from Iraq but that the numbers are growing and hardening, that isn't what we really want.

Apparently the elites in D.C. know what we really want is success in Iraq, and if we knew that success was just around the corner or there was a defined mission that had quantifiable goals and results we could measure, why we would soften our positions and commit whatever it took to win. I guess that means more treasure and lives.

The Washington elite really is marginalizing itself. Is it any wonder that a little bloggy blog like ours gets even the moderate amount of traffic each and every day that it does? At least some of the Democrats seem to get it. I believe we and others like us, and our readers (many of whom have their own blogs) and others, even the big ones do not drive opinion--they simply and perfectly reflect it. My message to the pundit class is this: your relevance in the discussion diminshes every day you think you know better than us. Get with the program.