Good grief is he predictable. I didn't even have to scroll down before I knew he'd comment upon rumors that conservatives want to deny Arlen Specter the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee. Of course he wasn't naming names, nor did he predict which way such a fight would go, but we can count on him to float yesterday's rumors - especially if they involve belittling moderate Republicans. Also predictable - wild, unsubstantiated assertions against progressive Democratic organizations - in this week's column, it's saying that voters ran from some Democrats in the election because they were supported by MoveOn (gasp!). And finally, what would a Novak weekend column be without either a dig at a rising liberal Democrat, or the promotion of someone on the right-wing of the Democratic Party. This weekend we got the latter - that people are already pushing Evan Bayh to be the nominee of the party in 2008. Yeah, if there's one reporter I rely on to have his or her finger on the pulse of the Democratic Party, it's Bob Novak.
All that said, he does often have one or two important points to make in his columns. This week, he rightly notes that while the numbers in the US House might not have changed much on Tuesday, it's important that several of the new Republicans are more aggressively conservative than the Republicans they replaced (the most obvious examples being in districts in Nebraska and Pennsylvania).
Posted by armand at November 6, 2004 03:08 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics