"Clinton rules"

That's what Digby calls them, and the name works for me.

She means the way our "press corps" covers Democrats. She also finds the press looking forward to showing us how inept they really are:

Duck soup. Democrats are always on the edge of comedy. There's a madcap, Marx Brothers quality to this party. Remember the Dean Scream? Kerry's goof about education and the war was another classic flub, a pratfall tinged with darkness. Was he trying to destroy himself? You laugh, you cry, and sometimes it feels like you're staring straight into the abyss.

Just two weeks ago, journalism was looking so sad and dreary. Let the party begin!

We see it on display with the coverage of John Murtha's defeat as Nancy Pelosi's choice for majority leader. Meanwhile, as Atrios points out:

The Democrats had leadership elections, as did the Republicans. People took sides in those elections. That's pretty normal stuff. Some people won, and some people did not. The Republicans had an incredibly divisive election in the Senate in which John McCain's favorite segregation-loving candidate won by one vote. It's a real shame that McCain, who is currently in the majority in the Senate, apparently spent time on this stuff instead of solving the Big Problems, but hey that's how things apparently work. There's an election which is immediately followed by leadership elections. Then the new leadership takes control in January. This stuff happens every two years. It's not that complicated.

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