Rather than quote this tripe in detail

The Uncertainty Factor
By DAVID BROOKS
Ignoring the uncertainties of the age of terror, most people will pick up any stick they can to beat the administration.

…I will simply point out it's the CERTAINTIES we have about the Bushistas—the lies, the sliming, the theatrics unsupported by substance, the absolute certainty in the face of all contradictory fact and the singular hubris manifest as an inability to either see or admit to blatant error—that is the reason to all the Bushwhacking.

Posted by Prometheus 6 on April 13, 2004 - 9:26am :: Politics