“Thanks for posting my email comments regarding Hirschman’s rhetoric of reaction. I consider myself a left/liberal–I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life and I even wrote a book on race relations that David Horowitz branded as “anti-American, anti-white, and astoundingly ignorant.” But my comrades are blind to the fact that George Bush has liberated more people than the EU, the UN, and ANSWER put together. How depressing. I feel the same way about the left that you do about the Catholic Church.” – that guy gets two in two days. There’s more feedback on the Letters Page.
CLINTON LIES – SHOCK HORROR: Will Saletan has another example of something Maureen Dowd has also mentioned in the past – that the Bush administration tried to increase the levels of arsenic in the drinking water. Who repeated that hoary old canard? None other than former president Bill Clinton at the Iowa State Fair, saying that the Republicans “tried to put more arsenic in the water.” He knows that it was his administration that delayed new, tighter arsenic standards for eight years, and that all the incoming Bush administration did was to review the last-minute directives from the Clinton White House, before enforcing a standard that was stricter than was the case for all of the Clinton administration. But, hey, who’s listening any more to that incorrigible old rogue? The blogosphere, that’s who.
The Dish 