Sen. Maverick McPanic is not having a good week. The polls are showing Obama either maintaining his lead, or increasing it. The public is blaming the Rethugs by a 2 to 1 margin for the financial meltdown. And now this morning, George "Quill Pen" Will is letting McPanic have it for his intemperate reaction to last week's crisis. A few phrases capture the mood:
"McCain Loses His Head" (headline of article)
"childish reflex"
"McCain's shallowness"
"McCain's smear"
"McCain's Queen of Hearts intervention" (ref. to Alice in Wonderland)
"substituting vehemence for coherence"
"boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes"
"a dismaying temperament"
Ah, fresh air coming from the conservative side for a change.
