Monday, January 4, 2010

Politics As Usual

Matt Yglesias does a good job of being outraged that former senior Bush officials refuse to go public with their support for the "right things" that Obama is doing to fight counterterrorism. Of course, I also think it's deplorable that politics (and fear of Dick Cheney) would prevent these guys from doing the right thing.

Of course, I also understand that in the increasingly shrinking world that is the Republican Party, saying something nice about any Democrat (on the record) could mean that their propaganda wing at Fox News might not call on them for comment in the future, making it difficult for them to write a book of any importance that would get purchased in bulk by conservative organizations to make it look like it was really a best-seller. As we all saw, from 2001 to 2009, the goal of the Republican Party was to scuttle government while stealing billions from it and avoiding taxes on the loot.

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