There is a place for both, but if you are waking each morning to blog about what a bunch of corporate whores the Democrats and the president are, you haven't really adjusted your style to the new situation in Washington. In fact, you are effectively denying that there is a new situation in Washington. You just brought over what you were doing during the Bush administration and turned your guns on the Obama administration. And, remember, I am talking about motivation here, not discrete posts. I'm talking about themes and focus. Is this first thing you do in the morning to look for ways to talk about how the president has disappointed you? How Congress sucks?

FIRST OF ALL...So now Congress and the President are on the same side?  I just don't find this to actually have been the approach of bloggers like Booman who are extremely supportive of Obama.  Congress is of course both the House and the Senate you know (both of which are pretty sucky now, but it wasn't always so vis-a-vis healthcare).  Not too long ago, Booman seemed a bit taken aback that Harry Reid floating the opt-out public option even happened, considering his elaborate plan (also here)for the Senate to pass anything and Obama to come into the Conference Committee and suddenly turn up the heat (seemingly no pre-heating required - the Senate would instantly be zapped by his microwave superpowers).  Booman's original healthcare premise was the Senate will pass a crappy bill, and Obama will rescue it.  Well, sorry, if the Senate is going to pass a crappy bill, then I'm going to tell them that it sucks.  

And, I think it's a bit silly to pretend that people of all stripes haven't been disproportionately beating up on Congress all year - quite a few doing so in order to protect Obama, and throwin