Getting Serious

Personally, I use the Corner as a check on whether an issue is actually hurting Republicans. If they don’t talk about it, it’s usually serious. If it’s really serious, they tell jokes. ~Andrew Sullivan

This is classically irrational Sullivan.  By this standard, there would be nothing but jokes about the Iraq war at The Corner.  No one would mistake me for someone who defends the intellectual integrity of most of the people at The Corner, but perhaps they aren’t talking about the prosecutor “scandal” because there isn’t very much to talk about. 

If today’s Post story was supposed to be some devastating body blow to the administration, I think I must misunderstand what a body blow is.  Is it good for Mr. Bush to have confirmed that the woman he thought should be on the Supreme Court is really as dense and unsuited to positions of great authority and power as everyone thought she was?  Not really, but more news about Miersian foolishness can only cause people to shake their heads and laugh that she was ever nominated to the Court.  This reflects poorly on Mr. Bush’s past horrendous errors in judgement, not on anything that has happened recently.  At this sad, sorry, late stage in Mr. Bush’s presidency, he has become such a risible figure that it is almost hard for me, after six years of going from mild suspicion to burning contempt, to get worked up over stories like this one.