No, wait, “ugh, pundits” doesn’t properly capture it. It’s not someone having a high rate of bad opinions that bugs me, it’s when they’re considered experts on the subject on which they’re frequently wrong.

Found this Tom the Dancing Bug comic that sums that up:

One: Sen. Hagel says “impeachment”, out loud, on national TV

He couches it in careful language, of course: he’s not recommending it, he’s not advocating it, but: “any president who says… I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don’t care what the Congress does… there are ways to deal with that. This is not a monarchy.”

Mixed feelings on Hagel. His voting record is pretty strongly conservative, but he’s pretty angry about this power-grabbing president. Is he setting up a presidential run and gambling this one key issue would get him enough moderate votes?

Two: Robert Novak says congressional Republicans are starting to call the Bush administration incompetent

The existence of this article is interesting according to TeddySanFran at Firedoglake: “The role Novak plays among the GOP elite — when they are afraid to broach a subject to one another, they all broach it to him. When it reaches critical mass and he realizes they need to speak with one another about the problem, he publishes.”

Three: ah holy christ preparations for attack on Iran in two weeks?

I’m not sure how trustworthy this is, but it does have links to two articles (here and here, translated from French via Google) in Novosti, a Russian news agency (which, come to think of it, I’m not sure how trustworthy that is either).

edit: oh hell make that four: Astonishingly, amazingly, the way to end the terrorism was to solve the conflict that started it.

Damn it’s been a big news week already, and it’s only Tuesday.