Thursday, March 29, 2007

Congressional Rejoiner

James Wolcott's Blog: Rhyme Schemes (updated): Wolcott's Blog: vanityfair.com: "...Six years makes for a mighty lengthy dereliction of duty: the Republican Congress didn't 'forget' its responsibility, it refused to exercise it. It was deliberately, conscientiously, cravenly, seamily complicit, and if the Democrats hadn't taken the House and Senate that 'temporary' hiatus of responsible oversight would have become permanent, just as Karl Rove had schemed and dreamed. David Broder's career raises an interesting question: How can one reasonable man reliably get it so wrong for so long and remain at the topmast of his profession?

P.S. Ana Marie Cox, who has emerged as the cork-bobbing Dorothy Parker of the Swampland set, conveys her bafflement over the peculiar article of faith held by the bishops of punditry that a subpeona'd Karl Rove would somehow be bad for Democrats. 'It's unlikely that White House is fighting Congressional subpoenas because they think the Rove's testimony will make the Democrats look bad. Hey, you know who's probably going to look really bad if Rove testifies? Rove.' Exactemundo."

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