It's all gone down hill since he pardoned Voinovich's weepy exhibition on the floor of the Senate. Any good dictator knows if you show compassion for one, it could lead to repeat embarrassments.
And here I thought that Voinovich was playing a progaganda part--you know, allow a critic of policy to be in place, but make him such a sissified intellectually bankrupt buffoon that it immediately discredits any stance he might take.