GWB: Good President...or Greatest President?

Shorter, humbler Ross Douthat:

George W. Bush was only a good president.

But also, however...

Verbatim, buried lede Ross Douthat:

This is not a blueprint that future presidents will want to follow.

Good to know, Ross. No, make that great to know.

Dear Prudence

Verbatim Ross Douthat:

At times, Ted Kennedy's fervor on abortion felt like an extended apology to his party's feminists for the way the men of his dynasty behaved in private.

Which, besides being utter horseshit as an argument about abortion rights or feminism or just about anything else it purports to be, would make of the chaste, abortion- choice-loathing, twenty-something Douthat something of a chastening, sex-loathing, ginormous PRIG.

I'd say he's hoist himself on his own petard but he'd probably get off on that.

Mouthbreather in the Mirror

Shorter Ross Douthat: "Lowbrow rules my world and it will. not. end. well."

Papal Bull

Shorter Ross Douthat:

How many angels can dance in my pinhead?

This guy is seriously embarrassing himself on a weekly basis.

I Kid You Not

Shorter Russ Douthat: "Criminalizing mid-term abortion would take the heat off the George Tillers."