Note To Andrew Sullivan

Who typed this today:

And that's why in fact the pushback has been almost milquetoast. How do Steve Schmidt and John McCain reveal the truth about Palin when that truth only further proves their fantastic incompetence, nihilism and unseriousness with respect to government? And what's truly telling about Washington is that a man like McCain, who perpetrated this nonsense and even now refuses to take an ounce of responsibility for it, is nonetheless invited on countless talk shows and treated like the hero he always was. And no one demands he account for this train-wreck outside his tested cant about Palin "exciting the base."

If he had any sense of responsibility, he would resign. And if the Washington media had any sense of responsibility, it would never invite him on TV again without demanding he take responsibility for what he nearly did to the national security of this country. No one who put this person near the nuclear button should have a future in public life.

But this is Washington. And they protect their own.

It's not a question of "protecting their own." From whom are they being protected? The pissed & raging, pitchfork-sporting tea partiers don't seem to be angry about J. Sidney III bringing ex-Alaska Gov. Palin to their attention. Who the hell else is callling for responsibility or resignations?

Here, Mr. Sullivan, is where your not-always-wrong analyses turn into jokes (Iignoring your foolish stands on some of the other Great Issues of The Day™, which had already made you comedy gold.) w/ this "why doesn't he resign, yada yada" outrage. Someone, somewhere (A bit of research reveals it to be Doghouse Riley, just a bit earlier.) typed about another Limey who has come to our shores, but doesn't get the entire picture either. The same w/ your moral outrage about torture, or your expectation that anyone around here takes responsibility for anything. This is America, schmuck, not the wimpy nation infested w/ Muslims that you fled for our greener grass. Take a good look around, & lower your expectations accordingly. It may or may not be a center-right, pro-torture & general lunacy nation, but the frontier mentality of moving along & maybe getting it right the next time is still the rule, no matter when the actual frontier closed.

Is there any historical precedent for any Washington or local gov't. figures who haven't been caught in flagrante delicto taking responsibility or resigning because of anything short of an impending indictment? Why would you imagine that McCain is any more capable of realizing what a sad fuck he is than Sarah Palin (who at least resigned, though w/o taking responsibility for anything) is?

(Hey, your supporting The Bell Curve, giving Betsy McCaughey the chance to destroy health care reform inTNR, & pimping for the illegal & immoral war adventures of G. W. Bush & Richard Cheney are some things you could examine about yourself. Maybe that will lead you to take the responsibility of retiring from incessant typing.)

Fitzgerald was wrong, wrong, wrong. American life is nothing but second & third & so on acts. "We want to put this behind us, & move on w/ our lives." That's America's mantra of responsibility. Wise up & get cynical before we send you back, illegal.