30.11.03

LINK: Tacitus has some interesting thoughts on Democrats:

"There's a fundamental disconnect between the popular Dem image of the President as a malapropism-prone bungler, and the fact that he continually wallops them time and again. From his mysterious ability to get their legislators to vote for a war they all deeply oppose, to precedent-shattering midterm victories, to a remarkable invulnerability to sustained criticism over very real policy flaws, ordinary partisan annoyance at these defeats is amplified a thousandfold by a nagging sense that, hey, we're getting shown up by a moron. And so derisive mythos comes back to bite 'em in the rear; good, and well-deserved. It also makes for some interesting reading whenever the President does something that, in ordinary times, would simply be accepted as a good and laudable thing. Visiting troops at war on Thanksgiving, for example."

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