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So putting the Stunt of \u201905 on the couch of political and social deconstruction, here\u2019s what it means, I think:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Governing is now a quaint euphemism for campaigning; campaigning is easy, governing is hard.
\n \u2013 Dick Meyer on \u201cThe Endless Campaign\u201d that is modern Democrat leadership.<\/p>\n

It might be modern GOP leadership, too, except I frankly think the GOP haven\u2019t the spines to actually do anything so overt.<\/p>\n

Meyer writes: Acting out often works in the short term.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Many children get candy to stop public tantrums only to be denied dessert when they get back home. However ignoble the Democrats\u2019 motives were, their trick worked in one legitimate way. The Senate Intelligence committee promised to have a bipartisan report on the status of its foot dragging in two weeks. That\u2019s a minor coup \u2014 it\u2019s the candy \u2014 but at what cost? Majority Leader Frist says his relations with Minority Leader Reid are forever poisoned and the Democrats may never get the dessert of a full investigation or a real voice on other legislative matters in the next 18 months. I believe Frist. <\/p>\n

Heh. I wish I could say I could. All I see from Frist is endless wimpering that his poor widdle feewings were hurt by Reid. Still waiting to see the fire.<\/p>\n

Meyer also writes: Acting out occurs when more acceptable behaviors failed.
\n<\/strong>
\nThe congressional branch of the Democratic Party has abjectly failed to conduct effective oversight of Iraq-issues since 9\/11. They voted for war and then wanted to be let off the hook. They did not use their clout and the expertise that came from controlling the American intelligence apparatus during the Clinton era to marshal effective investigations of the Bush administration\u2019s case for war as it was being made. They have barely been unable to force potent, effective post-mortems after the fact.<\/em><\/p>\n

I imagine he\u2019s getting lots of hate mail from the left telling him he is a Republican hack for daring to call the Democrat stunt of two days ago what it was \u2013 a temper tantrum<\/a> and he\u2019s going to get flack from the right for suggesting that the Democrats actually have a point in any \u2013 even the tiniest portion \u2013 of their complaints.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what you get when you\u2019re balanced. Everyone hates you. I know many in the press say \u201cwe must be balanced because everyone says we\u2019re biased.\u201d But this is what real balance looks like.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll want to read the whole thing. In the comments section, Kim makes a point that part of Meyer\u2019s piece seems a bit of a canard, considering the information which Lorie<\/a> at Polipundit put out today. Possibly Meyer didn\u2019t know about it. It\u2019s not like the press is reporting on it!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"