I don't respect Andrew Sullivan nor the New Republic, but his
Sullivan piece in the New Republic is something to behold.
Something snapped in Sullivan's mind, and the former Bush fanatic seems to have lost all respect for Dear Leader. Here are some greatest hits:
He offered excuses on the economy; and, on the critical matter of the country's fiscal health, he seemed scarily out of touch [...]
So, in one response, we have a one-word answer that means the opposite of what it should; we have an irrelevance; and we have a pipe dream. And the president expects the people to trust him with their money? [...]
OK, let me put this gently here. Is he out of his mind? [...]
Does he have the faintest idea what he's talking about? [...]
The president doesn't know what he's talking about, or he's lying, or he trusts people telling him lies. But it is undeniable that this president is not on top of the most damaging part of his legacy--the catastrophe he is inflicting on our future fiscal health [...]
I'm not one of those who believes that a good president has to have the debating skills of a Tony Blair or the rhetorical facility of Bill Clinton. I cannot help liking the president as a person. I still believe he did a great and important thing in liberating Iraq (although we have much, much more to do). But, if this is the level of coherence, grasp of reality, and honesty that is really at work in his understanding of domestic fiscal policy, then we are in even worse trouble than we thought. We have a captain on the fiscal Titanic who thinks he's in the Caribbean.
And that's one of Bush's allies. Of course, Sullivan may simply be upset that Bush has affirmed his support for an anti-gay marriage amendment to the Constitution (an issue important to Sullivan). But whatever the reason, this president is so obviously over his head, that not even his usual apologists can stomach the task any longer.
