Just what we need: more political wankery

Hard on (no pun intended) the heels of Swampland's debut, get ready for the latest and greatest in political commentary (yeah, right) ... here comes The Politico!

The new venture formed by Allbritton Communications has a newspaper, The Politico, and a website, Politico.com, that have become the hot place to be for political reporters.

Well-known journalists from The Washington Post newspaper and Time magazine have joined the multiplatform news organization.

John Harris, formerly the Post's political editor, will be the editor in chief at Politico, Jim VandeHei, who covered national politics at the paper, will be the executive editor and Mike Allen, White House correspondent for Time, will be the chief political correspondent.

Also on board is Roger Simon, an award-winning political columnist and author.

Well, isn't this special? There's some interesting commentary on the Internets about this already, but I suspect you probably can expect more of the same from the "professional journalists" who bring us whatever news suits them ...

What can The Politico and Politico.com bring us that innumerable publications and blogs don't already provide? Especially since it's being run by folks whose Bushie hack credentials already have been burnished?

I'm not holding my breath ...