tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post5112813575870743201..comments2024-03-29T05:41:35.119-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Late Night ThoughtsFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-3977017734285481862009-10-01T22:21:29.284-07:002009-10-01T22:21:29.284-07:00Publius: I'd call Sully not so much a "sk...Publius: I'd call Sully not so much a "skeptic" as a "scorned lover". He doesn't question the bulk of the Bush acts, gives big props for stuff that you and I would scorn, like the "military commisions" of Gitmo or the whole notion of using bullets to kill people into democracy, and generally gives Dubya a big wet kissy...except for that niggling little torture issue. He's shattered that his man-crush turned out to be a skeevy, lying scoundrel. I don't see this as him accusing Bush of anything - he's not telling us anything we didn't know; rather, it's a sad little mash note, begging his now-disgraced former idol to retrieve his Party and his honor from the crapper by manning up and doing the Right Thing. It tells me that Sully is not just a sad fool but a sad DELUDED fool, if he thinks this is anything to Dubya but more bumfodder for the outhouse down at the play ranch in Crawford.<br /><br />If Sully and the other tiny handful of remaining "moderate" Republicans had somehow been locked in a cave for eight years it would be a valuable, if sad, little text. But you and I and everyone with a working brain were screaming about this stuff six years ago. Where the hell was Sully?<br /><br />Sad. Just sad. And to think that I was a Rockefeller Republican once, too. Smarter than Sully, tho. I figured out that the monkeys were running the GOP zoo back in the Iran-Contra days.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-66337162882219233572009-10-01T07:30:18.500-07:002009-10-01T07:30:18.500-07:00I'm no particular fan of Sullivan's, but I...I'm no particular fan of Sullivan's, but I've kind of found his journey from being a hardcore winger to skeptic interesting. If you've followed the guy any, the disillusionment when he learned that his boys were (1) anti-homosexual; and, (2) stupid in their choices of wars was worth the price of admission.<br /><br />Not so sure that Sullivan really expects Bush to respond or do anything about this. I see this as more of a bill of particulars, a "j'accuse" moment more than anything else. It's accordingly valuable to me.Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06189226852559033120noreply@blogger.com