Howard Kurtz's column today, is full of examples of liberals resorting to meta-issues, accusing their opponents of some sort of indecency in debate and demanding apologies, as though it were immoral for Bush to point out the Senate's failure to pass a homeland security bill is hampering his ability to protect the country. Kurtz buys that argument, but he's wrong. Politicians have been impugning each others' patriotism since democracy was invented.