The WSJ’s Allan Murray is turning on Dubya, reports Brad DeLong. Without a subscription to the WSJ, I haven’t read the whole article, but the excerpt has the wonderful line:
It is also possible that what really links Presidents Nixon and Bush is something else: an unbounded desire for a second term, even at the expense of taxpayers.
I saw somewhere the explanation “There are two political parties in my country: the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. When the Evil Party is in charge, the Stupid Party stands in the way and prevents them from getting much evil accomplished. When the Stupid Party is in charge, the Evil Party stands in the way and prevents them from doing anything stupid. But sometimes, they manage to cooperate, and do something that is both stupid and evil, and that’s how we get laws in this country.”
Secretly Ironic 