Sense and Sensibility - George Bush remakes history

Nothing like the age-old Lockean principles triumphing over various -ism's. The left better back up its words with actual works or they are going to continue losing elections. Right now, the Congressional Democrats (both House and Senate) are backed into a corner of either support their own solutions to Social Security, et al or shut up. All they can say is No. Check - your move.

What's Left? Shame. (washingtonpost.com):

"The international left's concern for human rights turns out to be nothing more than a useful weapon for its anti-Americanism. Jeane Kirkpatrick pointed out this selective concern for the victims of U.S. allies (such as Chile) 25 years ago. After the Cold War, the hypocrisy continues. For which Arab people do European hearts burn? The Palestinians. Why? Because that permits the vilification of Israel -- an outpost of Western democracy and, even worse, a staunch U.S. ally. Championing suffering Iraqis, Syrians and Lebanese offers no such satisfaction. Hence, silence.

Until now. Now that the real Arab street has risen to claim rights that the West takes for granted, the left takes note. It is forced to acknowledge that those brutish Americans led by their simpleton cowboy might have been right. It has no choice. It is shamed. A Lebanese, amid a sea of a million other Lebanese, raises a placard reading 'Thank you, George W. Bush,' and all that Euro-pretense, moral and intellectual, collapses."