Anti-Climacus

QUOTE: Oh, sure, OxBlog pointed out the intro is good, but the rest of it's not so bad, either:

"It is a very virulent season, and one of the consequences of the pitiless, sectarian, self-loving, money-worshipping ethos of the Bush administration is to have made rage seem like reason, and to have erased from the recent memory of Democrats the great debate about the direction of the party that ended with the creation of the New Democrat, who, for all his or her weaknesses and mistakes, managed to combine a genuine concern for national security with a genuine concern for civil liberties, the ethical responsibilities of American power with the ethical responsibilities of American prosperity. But now the Democrats despise Bush so much that they are feeling pure again, which is always the beginning of their end. (I thought that Bill Clinton established once and for all the political utility of impurity.)"