So not getting it

OK, so I know the Washington Times is about as useless a newspaper as one is bound to find (it’s like Highlights for the wingnut set), and I should therefore disregard damn near anything written in its disreputable pages but really, Paul Weyrich’s piece today is too just much. After spending several paragraphs telling us the Mr. Bush’s visit to the Beijing Olympics was the correct course of action while praising his “tough stance” on China’s human rights record, he closes with this jewel of cognitive dissonance:

If Mr. Bush had done what he promised in 2000 - that is, no nation-building - he would go down in history as perhaps the greatest president since George Washington. As it is, he will be judged on the outcome of two wars, and that outcome is mostly out of his control.

And aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? This brand of idiocy totally smacks of Marion Barry’s classic bon mot that “Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country”. Barry and Weyrich – two peas in a pod of stupid.

(hat tip to BarbinMD at DailyKos)