Some animals more equal than others

Billmon on the Animal Farm:

The Rovians used the mirror image gambit against former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke -- accusing him of sleeping through the summer of 2001, and claiming he failed to alert his bosses to the gathering threat of an attack. They used it against Kerry to neutralize the AWOL issue. And they used it against Bill Clinton (and any other Democratic politician they could find among "Kenny Boy" Lay's golfing partners) during the Enron scandal.

But I don't think the gang has ever used the technique on this massive a scale before. On his most megalomaniacal day ever, Dick Nixon would never have dreamed of trying to spin his squalid dirty tricks operation into a heroic blow for truth, justice and the American way. It has a kind of totalitarian grandeur to it -- like Stalin turning himself into the leader of the Russian Revolution and Trotsky, creator of the Red Army, into a filthy capitalist spy.

I'm sorry, I should never have mentioned Animal Farm, Rove works far too well as Napoleon.