Perhaps an envious Jonathan is exasperated at being left in the dust.
Thank you all for such laughs.
I just came back in from fertilizing my rose bed.
I find it telling that in his Bush-bashing career, Jonathan got so much, so wrong about President Bush. Some from the horse's mouth in Post #3.
"The point isn't just that Bush refuses to engage with facts he finds inconvenient. ... It's that Bush rejects reason itself. Reason is a process by which we draw our broader conclusions from an accumulation of specific evidence. When the evidence changes ....., our conclusions can also .....Bush, on the other hand, arrives at his beliefs through intuition. His supporters marvel at the unshakeable certainty of his convictions. Well, no wonder."
Jon-boy then:
"For the couple weeks seven years ago before he revealed himself to be a horrible, crazy gnome, Ross Perot seemed to me like a great idea. And if next November the candidates are George Bush, Al Gore, and Jesse Ventura, it isn't inconceivable that I would pull the lever for Ventura. And I certainly wouldn't be upset if Bush won, even if he can't name a single book he's ever read." --Jonathan Chait, The New Republic, Dec. 20, 1999
Perot? Ventura? "Rejecting reason"? Res ipsa loquitor.
Chait is just another paid-by-the-word lib, the type that populate Salon with thousands of useless bits and bytes, every article mandated by scroll-button column stretch, and very little else.