Like most everybody else in the blogosphere this morning, I’ve been reading about the Plame affair. It’s potentially an enormous story – if the facts are as they appear to be, there are at least two senior White House officials who deserve to be hauled off to jail. But I’m disturbed by the tone of triumphalism coming from a few left blogs and their commenters. It’s understandable that some see this as an opportunity to stick it to the warbloggers. It’s still a mistake. This story is too important to be turned into a cheap gotcha. There’s a growing groundswell of outrage on the right as well as the left. People should be building on this, rather than using the affair to score short-term ‘told you so’ points. If nothing else, a more constructive attitude will make it more likely that the story will stick around, and receive the sustained public attention that it obviously deserves.

Update: See also Kevin Drum’s plea to conservatives – angry, but carefully worded and targetted.

Update 2: But of course, some will never be convinced … for a sampling, see Belle Waring