Cable Game sources tell me that Jack Cafferty has been the driving force behind the CNN "Broken Government" series--and he has convinced CNN execs that because of him and his influence, they can do a totally throw-the-bums out series and not get tagged as doing Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean's dirty work.
But in fact, if most incumbents are Republicans--that is, they have the White House and both houses of Congress--then it's a matter of simple math that the big winners in a wholesale reversal of political fortune would be the Democrats. If CNN can get Americans to agree that the government is broken, then it stands to reason that the voters would want somebody new to do the fixing, i.e. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
So here's a question: Remember all that campaign finance controversy from years past? You know, McCain-Feingold, "soft money," and all that? Well how come nobody counts CNN's massive contribution to the DNC as a contribution in kind?
