The Great Excuse (Part 1)

"[T]he midterm elections are over," USA Today press-basher-in-residence Jonah Goldberg (rightly) observes, "and the GOP has lost the House and possibly the Senate." Not that it's their fault, of course. As Goldberg happily explains:

GOLDBERG (11/8/06): Republicans will have a tougher time winning the spin war, not because they have the worse argument, but because they have a worse environment to make it in.

Of course. And who, pray tell, is responsible for creating this toxic "environment," in which Republicans and their flawless "argument[s]" are so unjustly maligned?

GOLDBERG: The GOP got thrown out of office because it got fat and lazy and because Democrats - with the help of a transmission-belt media - convinced a lot of voters that they could simply change the channel on the war by voting for "change."

[groan]

And so it begins...