BAD FAITH: According to the WaPo's E.J. Dionne, "The bad faith of Bush's current argument [on Iraq] is staggering." Which is true. But since it really isn't any more staggering than the bad faith of his old argument on this subject, it rather conveniently opens up an honorable path for those of us who've been torn recently between our desire to speak the truth, and our wish not to be labeled "unpatriotic" by our friends and colleagues on the right side of the blogosphere. You see, instead of criticizing President Bush for needlessly dividing the country in wartime with a tendentious and often intellectually dishonest communications strategy, we can now just congratulate him for staying the course!

See? Blog civility. It's really easy when you put your mind to it, you know?