Right Side of the Rainbow

Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post:

It was the perfect storm for the blogosphere, an issue on which both right-wingers and left-wingers could rise up in rare unison and smite the craven offenders.

Both sides hated, castigated and otherwise took a dim view of the last-minute deal this week that averted a nuclear showdown over Senate filibusters.

Let the mainstream media praise as bipartisan statesmen the mushy moderates who cobbled together the compromise. Many bloggers were infuriated, castigating the so-called Gang of 14 (and especially John McCain) as knaves and turncoats.

But other bloggers were, and still are, chillin'. My own acceptance of the filibuster deal is informed, in part, by one of its incidental benefits: the quashing of John McCain's presidential ambitions. As his political suicide note, the agreement is golden.

(Thanks to Right Wing News.)