Where we are at the moment:

It's not the criticisms themselves that get me - it's the sense of entitlement, that these unelected pundits still think they hold veto power over the government, that they see their role not as reporters, not even as adversaries, but as a constituency.

I would put along with that "unelected pundit class" the Ivy League/Wall Street crowd including Larry Summers and Tim Geithner, who seem to think they too represent a constituency worth protecting, despite this constituency's complete and utter failure in managing the financial system over the last fifteen years. It's like an economic The Best and the Brightest ... the quicker we cut these folks out of the policy-making process the better.