Slate’s John Dickerson has written up his five best political moments of 2006 and the Internets are involved in three of them. Fickle blogs build up and then undercut Ned Lamont, Foley’s IM’s bring ruin upon his House, and George Allen finds himself in a deep pile of macaca. The two events for which our beloved series of tubes can claim no credit? Cheney’s itchy trigger finger and Rumsfeld’s fall from grace. Next year…
– cpd