Monday, January 19, 2009  On President Bush's Last Full Day In
Office  I'm sure there's a big part of the President that is
happy to be relieved of all the burden and responsibility
tomorrow.  He was not the best President of all time, but he was
nowhere near the worst--and I have no doubt his reputation in
popular culture will improve very rapidly except among the most
rabid zealots.  So on his last day in office let me toss out
three dissimilar links:  To trash Bush was to belong  Peter
Beinart is all over the map on this one. Here's just a sampler:
Younger liberals, by contrast, have had no such chastening
experiences. Watching the Bush administration flit from disaster
to disaster, they have grown increasingly dismissive of
conservatives in the process. They consume partisan media, where
Republican malevolence is taken for granted. They laugh along
with the "Colbert Report," the whole premise of which is that
conservatives are bombastic, chauvinistic and dumb. They have
never had the ideologically humbli