The Tribune was quick to highlight Republican Mark Kirk's initial broadside against the recently-passed health care bill, in which he pledged to "repeal" the package if elected to the U.S. Senate.  Yet in the weeks since, as Rich Miller noted, Illinois' largest paper has not printed one follow-up piece noting that Kirk has backed away from that pledge -- this despite the fact that the story has received national attention.

Chalk it up as just another example of the kind of softball coverage Kirk gets in this town.