[Hank Rearden]

Can't he just be renominated when the recess-appointment term expires? Just keep appointing him over and over until drunken-gasbag-killer Teddy strokes out.

I'd pay to see that.

[nightdriver]

"We suspect Kennedy has not himself read much if any of what Pipes has actually written. If he had, the senator would not have been so foolish."

But then, since when has a democRAT, especially a Kennedy, ever been afraid of being foolish?

The hero of Chappaquiddick could not even carry a very simple one-on-one with Robert Bork during Bork's confirmation hearings. He knew nothing that his staff hadn't written down for him.

Pathetic.

[Russell Scott]

I have a hunch Islamic nations, either directly, or through surrogates in America, may have taken up where the Chinese left off in donations to the National Democratic party. Who would want to see President Bush lose more than the Islamofacist and the Demorats.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We suspect Kennedy has not himself read much if any of what Pipes has actually written. If he had, the senator would not have been so foolish.

Democrats not infrequently make ignorance a point of pride--and call it common sense.

But then, the rules of successful commercial journalism--"If it bleeds, it leads," "'Dog Bites Man' isn't news but Man Bites Dog' is, "and "There's nothing more worthless than yesterday's newspaper"--have demagoguery as a planted axiom. In that world everything is "important"--and nothing is important.