[maryz]

As a long-suffering civil servant once told me, bad policy ideas are like cockroaches: you can flush them down the toilet, but they keep coming back

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a "long-suffering civil servant" have a great deal more experience with policy ideas of the left than of the right?

BTW, would this be former Enron advisor Paul Krugman? ;-)

(Almost as ubiquitous as "It's Bush's fault," but I couldn't resist!)

[dighton]

... former Enron advisor Paul Krugman?

That should be required in all press references, to balance their mandatory decorated Vietnam veteran John Kerry.