Disturbing

If you cannot grow up and differ from your parents on something, doesn't it say something about your own intellectual weakness?

I don't posit this just because I'm the liberal child of FoxNews viewers, but "Jeebus and the Daisy Chain" there are a lot of conservative sponges. From Bush on down. Although at least the Bushs (and for once I will say something moderately nice) actually run for office, as opposed to simply collecting wingnut-welfare. I mean they do the latter too (do they ever) but at least some of them diversify into winning, or being declared as winning, an election of two.

Speaking of which let us consider the other Cheney daughter: the uninteresting one, Elizabeth -- Poor, dowdy, fecund, colorless, automatonic, timely conceived and draft deferment conveying Elizabeth -- who I cannot say takes more after either parent because how do you separate their bad traits from their evil tendencies?

Today, being the child of a conservative (the hereditary Podhoretz, Goldberg, Kristol, Kagan slot) gets to write an editorial supporting each and every one of her daddy's positions all while Crashcart is still in office loading lie upon fantasy again and again and again.

Read it and weep, because I agree with Josh Marshall's assessment, it reads like a 7th Grade term paper, using the "World Book" for research or perhaps the conservative on-line resource "Wankopedia.org". Check out it's conclusion:

America deserves better. It's time for everyone -- Republicans and Democrats -- to stop trying to find ways for America to quit. Victory is the only option. We must have the fortitude and the courage to do what it takes. In the words of Winston Churchill, we must deserve victory.

We must be in it to win.

And with that Liz and her child-bearing hips jumped up and about and made a milk-shake for the latest spawn (no doubt a future columnist for the New York Sun).

UPDATE:

The on-line comments to this editorial are quite entertaining. Read them while you can.