And now ...?

MANIFESTO

Josh Marshall articulates what a lot of bloggers must be thinking these days—as someone who started blogging upon the invasion of Iraq, I know I am.

[Talking Points Memo's] evolution has been always been bound up with my stance as a voice of opposition to the Bush administration. So the end of the Bush years and the beginning of a new Democratic administration presents us with something dramatically new.

It'll be easy for the Mark Levins of the world to keep serving up their daily portion of crap (God knows Idiot Fathead Rush was forced to continue to blabber about the Clintons for the last eight years when his preferred party was in power.), but what about the Pandagons? the Firedoglakes? the War Rooms?

It'll be interesting to see how they react to the new set of circumstances. Certainly, by "hiring two new reporter-bloggers to be based in Washington, DC, one assigned to the White House and one assigned to Capitol Hill," it looks like Dr. Marshall is starting a mainstream news network in everything but name.