The Occasional Observer

Interesting story-within-a-story to keep an eye on. While Hillary has certainly drawn a lot of heat over her recent inability to commit to a position on Spitzer's IDs for illegal immigrants policy, perhaps the bigger story behind that is that she and her people are starting to attack and alienate the very people she needs on her side: the press. First, she attacked Russert. Now they are apparently issuing veiled warnings to Wolf Blitzer. Interestingly he's not backing down:

“If she can’t handle the heat during a Democratic contest, wait until the Republicans really start going after her,” he told TV Newser. “If she’s the nominee.”

“I think Russert was doing his job,” he said.

Finally, Blitzer took issue with Bill Clinton’s complaint that six “boys” — a reference to the other Democratic presidential candidates —ganged up on one “girl,” his wife.

“Hillary Clinton is the front-runner,” Blitzer said. “No matter if it’s a boy or girl, there’s a tendency to gang up on that person. It’s a natural phenomenon.”

For a family that is supposed to be so politically deft, they have made some rookie mistakes recently.