The Whole World Smiles with You

General Kristol of the Kristol-McCain-Cheney wing of the Forever War party has a new column in Time entitled--I shit you not--"Why Republicans are Smiling."

But I wanted to focus on only one element of the bad general's "argument." He writes, about Congress: "Mitch McConnell's performance as Senate Republican leader has also--for the first time in a long while--given Republicans a congressional leader worth rooting for as he outmaneuvers the Democrats in their efforts to put Congress on record against Bush's Iraq policy." Another interesting case of a GOP opinion leader throwing the recently deposed GOP congressional leadership under the bus? Yes, it looks like it. Turns out, all those years that you and I were thinking that DeLay was a corrupt hack, that Hastert was a joke, that Frist was not ready for primetime . . . turns out, we were right. Hell, even General Kristol couldn't "root for" those clowns.

Now, of course, Kristol, his magazine, his colleagues, they flacked for the clowns for years. But the truth comes out.