Timothy Noah nails it in his chatterbox article, "Principle as Narcissism," in Slate:

What "I" get to do, as president, is make promises that I know perfectly well can never be kept, and then to make Congress break those promises for me. I don't have to change "the principles I believe in" because I know more responsible people in the government will violate them and take the blame.

Those "principles," then, are really nothing more than the narcissism of a spoiled child. Why a Congress controlled by Bush's own party is willing to put up with this infantile buck-passing is anybody's guess.

If you haven't read it, you should. It's not deep thinking, just accurate.

Has anybody been paying attention to the AOL ads on TV recently? They are advertising their high priced services and running Netscape's bargain basement ads sometimes on the same networks at the same time. Doesn't AOL still own Netscape? How stupid do they think we are?