In all my years as a political observer and participant, I have never seen anything like I've seen from the Beltway insiders for the last three weeks, not even when Nixon was pressured to resign. I've seen media feeding frenzies, but this isn't that. This is something else again, driven by some kind of primal need by the media to drive a stake through the heart of one of the most successful presidencies of all time. Perhaps it has to do with their management or perhaps with their own hope for tax cuts. Whatever it is, it is far outside the boundaries of what "reporting" is and it's entirely possible it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
