American Thinker thinks there is a sudden strange hush

J.R. Dunn of the American Thinker writes that there is a sudden hush in the barrage from the left. Dunn writes:

Is it my imagination, or is there a sudden hush in the shrieking media barrage today? Was it only yesterday that the NYT and WaPo were roaring and thundering, month after month, at President Bush and the GOP—- to surprisingly little effect? Have we run out of phony scandals yet? Where is the Bush = Hitler crowd?

To be sure, the Kossacks are still fussing in a corner of the web. And any moment now the heavy artillery of the Left may resume lobbing shell after exploding shell at the White House, the neocons, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, not to mention Big Oil, Big Business and Big Fatty Food. It’s all they know.

I have to admit that while focusing on my barrage on the left I had not noticed the strange silence. Now that I stop and think, I cannot come up with anything recent that is anything like the mindless assaults we have been seeing. After kicking around a few spuculations regarding Hillary and Murtha, Dunn wonders if the Dems just suddenly got it that they are in trouble:

Maybe the Democrats just got it—- that they have now defined themselves to lose the 2006 elections. The Democrat Party stands for open treason in a time of war. Their house journal—- the New York Times—- has made it official, by publishing secrets that will surely end up killing US agents, soldiers and allies in the field. The next big terrorist attack will point the finger of blame at our domestic Fifth Column—- the media establishment. Where will the next terrorist hammer fall? Israel – London – New York City? Wherever it does, the guilty party is now beyond reasonable doubt in the eyes of millions of Americans.

I do think that Newspapers of the coastal parenthesis (NYT and LAT) are so associated with the Democrats that their recent aid to terrorists was certainly a self-inflicted wound with deep ramifications. Hugh Hewitt asked Larry Kudlow about how this has affected the NYT. He responded:

Killed 'em. Killed 'em. You cannot believe the intensity of anti-New York Times feeling. Killed 'em. You know, we sent a guy, Cody Willard, who's a contributor to our program, and we do this little cam thing. He goes out and interviews people on the street, and I had him ask the question about the Times. People are furious. We did a poll, investor class poll on it, and people were just...80/20 against the New York Times.

HAVE YOU SHORTED THE NYT STOCK TODAY? (ok, that's mine)

I think that the Times (both of them) feeling that the nation needs to know about secret anti-terrorist tools and yet not feeling that the nation needs to know about key governmental officials leaking these secrets has had a very detrimental effect on the liberal movement in general. I think the handful of Dems cheering that the Supreme Court sided with the Gitmo prisoners against Bush is just another act to solidify in people's minds which side the Dems are on. The immediate reaction and promise of Congressional correction to this runaway ruling (by Graham and Kyl) was like throwing cold water on Pelosi and Kennedy.

I think Dunn is on to something. Perhaps the Dems are beginning to see how they have as usual overplayed their hand. Perhaps they simply don't dare say anything around Independence Day that would yet again call their patiotism into question. Perhaps tomorrow or in a few days the foot in mouth disease resumes with a fury. In the meantime, we are enjoying the silence.