Soured Howard

"Never ascribe to malice what can be easily explained by incompetence."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Screamin'Howard Dean is back at it again. On THIS WEEK today, he declared that the Bush Administration is the most corrupt since Warren G. Harding. Maybe that point is debatable. It seems that Napoleon's maxim would ring quite true, however, since we are talking about the Bush administration. But his subsequent comments are simply hysterical. While talking of the Democrats' imminent return to power, he declared the following: "The first thing we're going to do is we're going to have ethics come back to Washington." [Pause while I pick myself up off the floor from laughing so hard]. Ahem. Well, I wonder if he is reminiscing about the days of Bill Clinton's ethics--you remember Clinton, he's the disbarred attorney who was found in contempt of court for misleading a grand jury and was impeached by the House of Representatives. Yes, yes...Democrat Ethics. They are a special class of ethics, whose status is not yet recognized by most philosophers. Someday. Although, let's be honest. Were there really ever ethics in Washington...ever? Dean makes it sound like once upon a time Washington was made up of upstanding, honest folks. All I have to say is: name one. Since the time that the left wing revisionist historians have sullied the names and repuations of our founding fathers, we have nothing left to which we can point and say with confidence "there is a good model." And so, people behave as they will. It's called human nature. It is not so much that people's behavior is corrupt (even though that is true as well), but that their very nature is corrupt. That is precisely why we are supposed to have separation of powers, and limited government. Limited government means there are certain things that government simply does not have the power to do. Good luck finding examples of that in today's political milieu. O Jefferson! where art thou at this hour? America hath need of thee!