It’s been about 48 hours since Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee issued a sweeping indictment of the Bush administration’s casual approach to law-breaking in a report called, "The Constitution in Crisis." How’s the media reaction been?

Using Lexis-Nexis and Google News, it appears that the only mainstream media outlet — literally, the only one — to even mention the release of the report was CNN, when Jack Cafferty devoted 200 words to the subject late last week.

• Why do they hate America?

It's a culture of guys who think they are the smartest people in the room and everyone else is either hopelessly ignorant or they are doing easy work or they are arrogant if their arguments cannot be refuted. The word humble never entered their vocabulary. Those are the scary ones.

I've wondered how somebody could pull together the mass of stuff that's already in the public record in a coherent way - seemed way too difficult for the likes of me - but they did very well.