Now the revisionist floodgates have opened with the simultaneous arrival of Karl Rove’s memoir and Keep America Safe, a new right-wing noise machine invented by Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz and the inevitable William Kristol. This gang’s rewriting of history knows few bounds. To hear them tell it, 9/11 was so completely Bill Clinton’s fault that it retroactively happened while he was still in office. The Bush White House is equally blameless for the post-9/11 resurgence of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Iran. Instead it’s President Obama who is endangering America by coddling terrorists and stopping torture.-Sean Wilentz tries refuting non-gay Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry's plan to take General Grant off the fifty.
-Senator Jim DeMint has apologized for his shameful- and shameless- attack on the integrity of the Senate parliamentarian. We look forward to apologies for the rest of DeMint's career and from the consultants who take money to keep him on the public payroll to do nothing for South Carolina.
-Constitutional "originalists" believe Fukayama's "End of History" thesis, only they want to stop the clock in 1789, not 1989:
A new study from Professor Persily and two colleagues, Jamal Greene and Stephen Ansolabehere, explored the political and cultural values of those who identified themselves as originalists. Such people “appear more likely than non-originalists to be white, male, older, less educated, Southern and religious,” the study found. “They are less likely to favor abortion rights, affirmative action and marriage rights for same-sex couples, and more likely to favor torture and military detention of terrorism suspects and the death penalty. They are more likely to express morally traditionalist, hierarchical and libertarian cultural values.”
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