[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

How did Republican conservatives become the most important defenders of civil liberties on the Hill?

How can anyone writing such a sentence and such an article not be named 'STUPID'?

[jammer]

How can anyone writing such a sentence and such an article not be named 'STUPID'?

I think I agree with your point--but I believe the sentence you are deriding is correct. I think the point should be that it's really, really sad that that's the best the Republic can do.