Obama's legislative trail

Via Andrew Sullivan, a post from Obsidian Wings about the legislation Obama worked on in the senate

Another case of Republican envy

Josh Marshall posts an item from a reader who is happy that the Clinton campaign responded forcefully to an MSNBC host's suggestion that Hillary has been "pimping out Chelsea":

Bush made sure the networks, and news media in general, knew that any disrespectful treatment of him like Bill Clinton was subjected to was going to bring results they would find very uncomfortable. That worked - of course in part it worked because the networks and media in general supported Bust no matter what he did. But, even if they don't support the next Democratic president we can't allow him or her to be treated with the dripping contempt that Bill Clinton faced. This episode was the first shot in that "war".

Does this make anybody else uncomfortable? The Democrats should be more like the Bush administration? We should freeze out the media unless they support our agenda? The press should at all times be reduced to parroting the administration's talking points?

We hate the Republicans! Let's adopt their thuggish tactics!