Grim times for Cass

The Dems have finally fingered their problem: Cass Sunstein.

... three liberal legal eagles - Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School, Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago Law School and Marcia Greenberger of the National Women's Center in Washington - who told the Democrats that they could "oppose even nominees with strong credentials on the grounds that the White House was trying to push the courts in a conservative direction." And now that's the strategy that has failed, leaving Democrats "tilting at windmills," as a rueful Tribe told the Times.

Nor is the Manhattan media doing them any good. Drat.

An additional problem Democrats face is that the media, their once-powerful allies, aren't so much help anymore. The mainstream media (MSM) once provided a big boost. In 2004, Evan Thomas, assistant managing editor of Newsweek, estimated that pro-John Kerry coverage from the "establishment media" could be worth "maybe 15 points" to the Democrat's November vote total. . . . Indeed, perhaps because of competitive pressure from the new media - cable, talk radio, the Internet - the MSM is changing, too. Picking up on the crescendo of criticism aimed at Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), Newsweek gleefully quoted an anonymous Democrat as saying that Biden was "a blowhard among blowhards."

Some days, I just want to learn to spell schadenfreude.

LAGuy notes: By the way, if you want to read what Sunstein, and other old pals at the U of C are thinking these days, check out this site.