WASHINGTON ORIGINAL?

This article strikes me as a good example of why Washington reporters get a bad rap. The big story, apparently, is that Marshall Wittman has worked for a lot of different Washington power brokers who don't get along with each other or often agree (although Caesar and Linda Chavez are somewhat farther off from each other than Ralph and Bruce Reed). Leibovich isn't writing a story about the course of Wittman's evolving political ideology - instead, we learn that Wittman likes interesting people and snappy quotes. He's into McCain! He's into Lieberman! (Not that getting from one's talking points to the other's is a colossal leap) Makes it easy to forget that people's lives are actually affected by politics.