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Washington’s Worst

...Begala righteously -- and rightfully -- goes up the wall citing, among other things, the fact that his eldest son is named John Paul, after the late pope. (Good thing for the kid, too, that he was born recently. In another era, he might be named Urban Gelasius Begala.) Unanswered is the question of why Begala ever would appear on television again, not only with an evil homunculus like Novak, but with a host who so casually spit on his religious faith. It's the same question John McCain can't answer: Why would he embrace a president who slandered McCain's child for political advantage?

When, in God's name, is enough simply enough?

Get out of Washington, boys. Get off television. Stay away from Imus.

This isn't the marketplace of ideas. It's the brothel. Forget Mother Clinton's golden dream. Get out into the country that you say all those Democratic elitists don't understand and elect some state legislators who can become congresscritters. Take a stand that might actually cost you a dinner reservation. Do your real jobs...

C&B have some very good policy recommendations, as well as some very bad ones, including pitching the privacy rights of 51 percent of the population overboard piecemeal. However, you will be interested to know, for example, that, "Many liberals share the conceit that they are intellectually superior." Really? Who? Name one. That the paragraph goes on to cite Mary Matalin as partial proof of conservatism's intellectual heft can be attributed to Carville's desire to keep the cookware from flying at home. But, as an unsupported assertion, this argument is taken straight off the wall of the Gents at the Heritage Foundation.