The Media Today

Andrew Sullivan seems to have taken his testosterone recently. If President Bush has been getting "a free ride," I'd hate to see what all out resistance looks like.

Max Boot wonders where all that indignation about revealing classified information, such as Valerie Plame's name and occupation, went?

Indeed.

According to Opinion Journal's Political Diary, Harry Reid's giddy claiming credit for killing the patriot act may not have been so smart, in hindsight:

What is clear is that Democrats are starting to worry they will pay a political price for their obstructionism. President Bush may be facing difficulties over the war in Iraq, but there's no doubt that when the subject turns to protecting the American mainland against terrorism, he's playing on a home field.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid didn't do his party any favors last Friday when he openly boasted to a group of political supporters that by their successful filibuster Senate Democrats had "killed the Patriot Act." When he was then asked if defeating the Patriot Act was a reason to celebrate, he replied: "Of course it is."

Apparently a lot of Americans still remember the sight of airplanes flying into the WTC and Pentagon. I remember the sickening realization that what looked like debris falling from the towers was actually people who had jumped to avoid burning to death. I'll never think of 9/11 without feeling it in my gut. I really did think that everybody who saw those images would have been changed by them. I guess I was wrong.

Harry Reid is a fanatic.* He and his colleagues don't seem to realize that using the filibuster to block votes on important legislation, thus holding it hostage, doesn't look as heroic as they think. George Bush does. I know the elites in the press and academia don't get that, but most of us do. Frankly, I trust his judgment more than I do most judges I've known. Harry Reid and the others (cough, RussFeingold) seem to have forgotten that the President has more power as the head of another branch of the government than any of them alone has.

While I'm on that, it should be mentioned that the belief that all searches and seizures without a warrant are per se unreasonable and violations of the Constitution. But that's not what the Fourth Amendment says.

Richard Posner blows away the fog surrounding the Domestic Spying issue.

* "one who redoubles his efforts after he has forgotten what his aim was" according to George Santayana