I know that, as a blogger, I’m supposed to be all over the Scooter Libby indictment, typing away like a busy bee. Hell, everyone else is. My colleagues over at the Huffington Post are having conniptions.

But somehow, all the spectacle turns me off. Get a life, guys.

Look, I enjoy the schadenfreude as much as the next blogger. I do. I don’t like the way this White House works and I’m glad to see them hoisted by their own petard. I cautiously supported the war in Iraq because I believed what the White House was saying about weapons of mass destruction there, and boy, don’t I feel like a dummy now. So what goes around comes around.

Somehow, though, I don’t see how all this jumping up and down on the corpse of Scooter Libby does progressives much good. The Democrats still have to propose an agenda for the future, and with the possible exception of Rahm Emanuel, I haven’t heard much of that.

It’s not that Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation isn’t important. It is, because it opens a window into how the White House sold a war to the American people. But somehow I get the feeling the blogosphere has gone all ballistic over this episode not because of its importance, but because it’s fun. Liberals don’t like Karl Rove or Scooter Libby or Dick Cheney or George W., and they like to see these guys squirm.

Plus, there’s an air of intrigue and drama about the whole thing. The angry husband, the victimized but still mysterious spy, the sneaky, sinister aides, the strong, silent-type prosecutor…it’s entertaining! And, as my friend Neal Gabler has written, it has become the habit of Americans to impose the narrative form of movies upon real life in every possible instance. I think that’s what we’re doing here, in a way that either distorts the true meaning of what’s going on or distracts us from other storylines that may, ultimately, be of greater importance.

So…I hereby withdraw from the great Scooter Libby blogathon. I’ll weigh in from time to time, but I just can’t compete. Because isn’t it weird how the blogosphere has become nothing more than another self-important echo chamber…just like Washington itself?