Dropping the F-Bomb
Good essay by Diane McWhorter on unmentionable comparisons. Conclusion:
So, is there a new, post-election normal? A recent Google search turned up some impressive, learned commentary comparing the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to the Enabling Act of 1933. A reader congratulated one of the legal scholars, human rights lawyer Scott Horton, for daring to defy Godwin’s Law. Perhaps (to switch totalitarian metaphors) we are in the midst of a little intellectual Prague Spring.
Of course, that democratic interlude met a swift and terrible end. If the midterm election was a referendum on nothing more than Bush’s competence, then the message the Republicans have gotten is: Next time, make it work.
Comment by Ugh —
November 29, 2006 @ 2:31 pm
One of the MBFs at Bizarro World begs to differ.