Tough crowd.

• Position: 10 MILES SQUARE - Maureen Dowd, Jonathan Turley, Susan Schmidt - Brief article

During the impeachment saga of the late '90s, certain Washington journalists and commentators drove Democrats crazy by seeming to side with President Clinton's Republican pursuers. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that Clinton would "say anything and hurt anybody to get out of a mess." Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, relentlessly argued that impeachment was the only appropriate punishment for the president's crimes. And Susan Schmidt, a reporter at The Washington Post, often seemed little more than a stenographer for the steady flow of damaging leaks engineered by Ken Starr's office.

Lately, though, we've noticed that they've all been equally hard on the current president. Dowd recently wrote that under Bush, "We've lost all moral influence" Turley has been arguing that this president, too...