LINK: The always inimitable Chris Caldwell on the very real trouble Republicans are in for this election cycle. Oh, and the possible connection between Dubya and the Saudi mutli-millionaires who helped to finance bin Laden.
I've always been a fan of The Weekly Standard's stable of writers (there has never been politics on TV like there was when Tucker Carlson was on The Spin Room, and David Brooks is as astute a cultural observer as we have nowadays), not least for their willingness to allow common sense to win out over their ideology when the occasion calls for it. To wit:
"For decades now, the "small government" Republican Party has been slamming the corrupt conduct of, say, trial lawyers who just suck money out of the economy and put it in their pockets in the name of the ideal of "representing the little guy." When they talk this way, I?m all ears. But, Jesus, this is what they have to offer in its place?"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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