Wow, is this ever some half-assed crap:

While it is awfully early to be predicting that House Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) will face a leadership challenge because of her handling of “torture-gate,” conditions are starting to gel for the good old-fashioned congressional coup.

The writer, a Republican operative, proceeds to list what he claims are "five factors that ultimately lead to a coup."

Yes, those are five factors that if you squint just right, can be distorted to look like something that happened to one or another of the Republicans who once got booted. But presenting them as a package of factors that ultimately lead to anything is just stupid. Especially when so many of them are being so poorly read.

Having "a leadership rival" is a coup factor? Well, yeah, in that coups don't happen unless there's someone else who wants the job. But I think the list of leaders who had rivals but were never deposed in coups is rather longer than the list of those who were.

A "disaffected base?"

Her base is angry because she made promises she couldn’t keep. In fact, she has faced primary opposition from Cindy Sheehan because she hasn’t been left-wing enough.

Well, we've found the one guy in the country who's willing to take the Sheehan challenge as a serious measure of Pelosi's standing with her base. And surprise! He's a Republican!

The rest of the analysis is equally crappy. This article is an absolute turd all around. It's pretty predictable that I'd say so, to be sure. But seriously, this is the worst kind of wishful thinking from an "analyst" who's pretty much in no position to know jack shit about how anyone but dysfunctional Republican nutters work.

Purely a symptom of the hard-on the media has for making this a story they're capable of grasping. If it's not about one or another of the parties "winning" or "losing" something, they can't deal. The idea of covering a question that goes to the core of what the limits of power are under the American system of constitutional governance -- not to mention our moral boundaries as humans -- is clearly too, like, totally confusing 'n stuff.