the loyal opposition

The American Spectator has a piece today by Jeffrey Lord about a fictional President Hillary Clinton being attacked on all sides by Republicans as part of a 'Bush Payback.'

Lord envisions a swarm of frothing, furious, seething, rabid Right-Wingers. I don't see it.

"What Democrats lost with the election of George W. Bush, so furious were they over failed attempts to...ahhh...shall we say "appropriate" votes they did not win in Florida, was the ability to serve as an agent for positive change while Bush was in office. Instead, they spent much volumes of videotape bungling their time in opposition, giving way to an urge to feel good instead of do good. Feeling good specifically meant tossing over the side a legitimate role as the party of the loyal opposition, giving in to Bush Derangement Syndrome and the frothing demands of the American Loony Left. In so doing they finally exhausted the patience of conservatives. The spoiling for a fight attitude, however unhelpful and even destructive it may be in turn for Republicans, will rule the day."

I reject the premise. Republicans are scared of their own shadow, they have no fight, no initiative, no fire, no passion. They are cowards and they seem entirely comfortable letting Democrats out-smart, out-think, out-legislate, out-maneuver them.

These are the very same Republicans that made nary a peep about Sandy Berger, a mind-blowing national security scandal of enormous proportions.

These are the same Republicans that allowed the Democrats to turn the routine firing of eight U.S. Attorneys into a scandal.