(I think we all knew that some pieces like the above were due.  No need for a quote – the title’s enough… then comes the ultra-insider-y article… the comments are also unusually… pathetic in a well-informed yet DC-snowblind kind of way…  Read a bit and you’ll see what I mean, then take a look at the piece that inspired the piece… almost like a real-time Allen Drury novel…

More later…)