I used to like him, but now he's too shrill

[womzilla]

Well, actually, I still like him, and don't think he's shrill at all.

Via Avedon, Paul Krugman's one-sentence summary of 21st-century American politics as it is played:

Don't assume that policy proposals make sense in terms of their stated goals. Do some homework to discover the real goals. Don't assume that the usual rules of politics apply. Expect a revolutionary power to respond to criticism by attacking. Don't think that there's a limit to a revolutionary power's objectives

(Added from original: Incidentally, this is one of the reasons I am willing to cut a lot of Bush voters slack. Bush ran as a moderate Republican; he's governing like a radical plutocrat. Even the people who voted for him didn't get the candidate they thought they were voting for.)