And in two months the Reich-wing press will be doing - What?

Steve Benen predicts the fate of the right-wing GOP press:

"Kristol and the far-right media will be many things next year, but "cheerful" isn't one of them.

I'm guessing outlets like the Weekly Standard, National Review, Fox News, and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal will pick up where conservatives left off eight years ago, and begin every day with a straightforward maxim: What can we do to undermine Democrats today?

Indeed, the audience for this will probably be enormous. Rich Lowry told the Politico, "People get ginned up when the other side is in power," noting that the National Review's circulation increased to 280,000 during the first two years of the Clinton administration, up from 150,000.

I suspect all of the major conservative media outlets will see a similar trend. There's a sizable group of people out there who are saying, "Tell us why Obama's wrong." These folks need a cable network and print publications to answer the question, and there's a far-right establishment ready to meet the demand. What conservatives will lack in access they'll compensate for in partisan attacks."

Expect the kind of attacks on Obama that they also used on Clinton, only more so. The conservatives will not accept Obama as legitimate and will try to undermine him at every step. It doesn't matter how bad the economy gets or what threats America faces. The conservatives consider their own lack of power to be more important than dealing with those problems.

That's something we can count on.