"George W. Bush
destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues."
-Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
SATURDAY NEWS:
* Trickle-down effect? Rising costs to repair
our infrastructure are choking local government budgets.
* Good read: Dan Froomkin on how the proposed
stimulus package won't help, you know, the poor.
* The legacy of
the Bush Doctrine: "In too much of the world, America's promotion of democracy is now linked with violence and instability, and pre-emptive strikes against terrorists are equated with the unilateral invasion of nation-states."
* Dick Meyer on the return of
John McCain.
* "It's legitimate to ask, given the destructive developments of the last few weeks, whether
the Clintons are capable of being anything but divisive." (
More rebuttal from Colbert King here.)
*
Morgan Spurlock on filming in Afghanistan and more. (
Bonus: "a 9-foot-tall bionic ninja.")
* The Oscar nominees are
pretty depressing.
* Your tax dollars at work: "We find that the programming at issue is within the scope of our
indecency definition because it depicts sexual organs and excretory organs - specifically an adult woman's buttocks."