For the idealogues

Those who took offense to my earlier post concerning the ultimate wisdom of the Bush Doctrine should read "Don't Mess With Taxes," an editorial piece in Portfolio. Here is one of the more notable quotations:

Being reflexively and absolutely anti-Bush has made otherwise sophisticated minds (particularly along the nation's coasts) as dogmatic and simplistic as, well, George Bush.

As the article notes, "[i]t's more fun to adopt a Taliban-like fundamentalism in supporting or opposing all things Bush. But once the man leaves, we have to let go and start assessing ideas on their merits." So, I suppose the moderate in me would take the Editors' admonition one step further, and start assessing ideas on their merits before W. hands over the reins.