Gerard Baker is shrill
Gerard Baker, a slighty right-wing Times columnist who has spent much of his time there defending Bush, now sounds rather shrill:And yet, the Trouble with Harriet is much larger than any of this. It is not just that she is so obviously unfit to hold the office of associate justice of the US Supreme Court, though she is certainly that. It is the simple, depressing lack of seriousness demonstrated by the White House in coming up with such a candidate, the sheer cramped and occluded smallness of the thinking that now seems to characterise the Bush Administration’s approach to governing. It is hard to overstate the mood of demoralisation among conservatives in America. The rising tide of disillusionment is ready to break the dam of loyalty.
Of course he still defends the vision, and indeed parrots the standard line from the Bushies/Decents that if the theory was good enough, the disastrous reality can be forgiven:
The grisly ineptitude of the conduct of US policy in Iraq has been forgivable — just — because the cause was right and the vision, a democratic Middle East that shakes off centuries of despotic decay, remains an inspiring one. The cavalier attitude towards the public finances reflected a disturbing callowness but could still be tolerated as a messy outcome of awkward political realities. In both cases, soaring idealism in concept has been undermined by woeful execution.
but I suspect it's only a matter of time before he gives up on that too.
posted by Matthew @ 10/14/2005 05:26:00 PM
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