On Ladders and Wells and Morals and Values

Gob bless Jonah Goldberg.* He really does think that there's an equivalent between Bush using the crisis of 9-11 to invade Iraq, devastate the American military, kill 750,000 Iraqi citizens, destroy US credibility around the world, increase terrorism and hatred against the US and Obama's using the economic crisis to give people health care, provide them education, and help them clean up their environment. In fact, he seems to believe that Bush is morally superior because he lied about using the opportunity of crisis he was presented.

Remember, it is the Republican party that is the party of morals and values and Goldberg is one of their leading thinkers.

*Goldberg's opening analogy is, of course, flawed. He posits that a child has fallen down a well and Obama is refusing to lower a rescue ladder until the child's parents agree to paint Obama's house. A much, much, much better analogy is that Obama is lowering a rescue ladder, but also suggesting that while the child is climbing out, everyone help build a fence around the well to prevent this from happening again. I know that Goldberg can't begin to see what health care, education, and the environment have to do with the economy, but then that's why he and his party's ideas have failed so spectacularly.