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February 23, 2006

Yglesias has been reading PK

Or maybe he's just channeling me:

I would caution sensible liberals like Kevin Drum and our own supreme leader against giving Bush the benefit of the doubt on this port business. Giving Bush the benefit of the doubt is not a sound policy as a general matter. What's more, Bush has shown a weird nonchalance about port security from the very beginning of the "war on terror." He's also demonstrated a consistent, unseemly, and unwise level of coziness with the picturesque despots of the Arabian peninsula whose brand of Arab authoritarianism comes with a monarchical gloss. Reed Hunt notes that we wouldn't let the UAE own a television station in this country, but Bush says it's a-okay for them to run a port; I have my doubts.

We shouldn't be giving W the benefit of the doubt? Ya think?

Exactly how many times does the Bush Administration need to screw up major policy issues and situations before people toss away their rose-colored "Bush is fab" glasses? After Iraq, Katrina, Social Security, Medicare Prescription Drug plans and the massive economic failures of the tax cuts--you'd think their skulls would be penetrated by now.

Posted by Carla at February 23, 2006 05:31 PM