News reports play up the Democrats' ultimatums and delays.
Editorials denounce their stubbornness and partisanship.
Anyone who remembers the early days of the first Clinton administration remembers that the press was not especially kind to that brash, over-hyped newcomer from Arkansas, off all places. There was the whole Whitewater thing, to start with. The higher the profile of the attackee, the more intense the attack. That explains why the Committee of Concerned Journalists found reason to criticize the media for not dogging President Bush as they should. In sharp contrast to his overexposed predecessor, Bush has kept himself comparatively out of the spotlight.