And the right goes silent?

Posted By Megan Carpentier Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 8:12 PM Share

Granted, Bill Kristol's intern doesn't have to turn in a column to the New York Times right away, but it is astonishing how yesterday's hearing has fallen into a black hole of nothingness in the right-wing blogosphere, given how much haterade for Hillary that group normally generates.

Obviously, there were the inevitable screeds published pre-hearing, like this gem from Rowan Scarborough at Human Events resurrecting every charge he saw in Hillary: The Movie. Pejman Yousefzadeh at Redstate wondered if anyone was going to talk about yesterday's AP story charging that Hillary aided some of Bill's donors while in the Senate (answer: nope). Jim Geraghty at the National Review wondered the same thing yesterday, but has yet to follow up today -- and his colleague Mike Potemra all but wished her luck in the same space.

In fact, the only mainstream conservative response belonged to Townhall, whose Annie Gearan simply noted that the confirmation hearings had gone smoothly despite the line of questioning on the foundation (though she gets the order wrong, conveniently not noting that David Vitter pre-empted Richard Lugar's line of questioning) and that Bill Clinton was not in attendance.

So what happened? Do Hillary's new poll numbers reflect the fact that she's no longer "the b*tch" of McCain supporters' nightmares? Are the conservatives too busy going after Obama and (as of today) Tim Geithner? Or is the country really ready for politics to stop at the water's edge again?

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