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Two errors:
On an issue of vital national importance -- likely the single most significant domestic issue of the year and of Bush's second term -- he chose his personal interests over all others.

This hash should have been settled in the first term.

The good news is that Sen. McCain will never achieve his goal. Never will he find himself in the great category of leaders that includes Lincoln, T.R., Reagan, and both Bushes.

The Bushes great? Certainly not 41 and 43 hasn't come close yet.

Wonderful post, smoothsailing! I came to post Isaiah's article which he just sent me from realitycheck.org, and saw that you already found it. Good for you! Thanks!

Here is a very excellent analysis written by Seth Swirsky, and sent to me via email by his mother, my close friend, Joan Swirsky, writer for NewsMax.com.

"Seriously, while no one *sees* it, Mark Felt coming forward to brag that he was deep throat, is symbolic of the "last gasp" of liberalism in this country -- the only thing thing that the left "accomplished" in the last 30 years. They "got" "Nixon. wow--aren't they proud. Felt was the disgruntled #2 man at the FBI who was passed over for the number one spot. some "patriot."

The left, with only 2 presidential victories in over 40 years (with the deeply weak Carter and irresponsible Clinton), has only Watergate to crow over. Thus, the last moment of glory is now being celebrated. It's a harmless end, thank god, to the failed experiment called liberalism, which has shown itself to be a mistake in history, begun by Franklin Roosevelt. That "mistake" only started getting corrected in 1994 with the "Contract with America."

Liberalism can only say it accomplsihed "civil rights", but that train had already left the station: Kennedy could never have pulled that off (it took a southernor to do it, LBJ). Today, Truman and JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. would be Republicans, caring as they did about personal responsibility and toughness (MLK was way more like Ward Connerly than Jesse Jackson -- he never would have wanted "affirmative action" and would have eschewed the "victim" card the Democrats play with blacks at every election.

So, I hope liberals save and read and re-read their Newsweeks and NY Times over and over RE: Mark Felt, feeling all warm inside -- it's the last moment of glory for an extraordinarily weak, phony and failed philosophy.