Anti-Clinton backlash begins

Since Hillary Clinton's "surprise" New Hampshire win, the story in the U.S. Democratic presidential race has been Bill & Hill's two-headed, four-fisted attack machine and its success in slowing down Barack Obama. Today, there's evidence that the story is changing, and that a media backlash against the Clintons may be at hand.

Influential New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd lays bare the Clintons' bare knuckles today, arguing they'll stop at nothing to take down Obama and win the nomination.

"The Clintons — or 'the 2-headed monster,' as the The New York Post dubbed the tag team that clawed out wins in New Hampshire and Nevada — always go where they need to go, no matter the collateral damage. Even if the damage is to themselves and their party."

Closer to home, Gerard Baker rails in the Times against "Clinton Incorporated."

"And so when the upstart young black senator from Illinois attempted to lead something of a shareholders' revolt against the proposal, he met the full force of the Clintons' wrath. Bill Clinton has been unleashed on the Obama candidacy like an ageing but still ferocious pitbull let loose on an elegant but slightly diffident Great Dane."