I just called Tom Daschle an idiot on national TV!

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Why is it that politicians, once in power, complain about their opponents having a political agenda and acting partisan?

In fact, isn't acting politically the behavior that got them elected. And isn't the American system of government what we're all fighting for?

And, why do the politically motivated say that the people in the other party are idiots. The word idiot must derive from ideology.

There so many idiots in politics, apparently, if you listen to politicians. Let's not delude ourselves that our politicians are elected on merit. That's appointment, not election. If the President were elected by the Supreme Court, for instance, we could expect a non-political appointment. Well, if the Supreme Court Justices weren't political appointments.

It is well established in American politics that any idiot can be president ... well, maybe not just any idiot.

President Bush's funny joke at the Yale commencement:

"And to the C students, I say, you, too can be president of the United States."

All joking aside, Kinsley says,

Sure, a C student can become president. It helps if his father was president first and his grandfather was a senator and he was born into a family that straddles the Northeast WASP aristocracy and the Sun Belt business establishment. And a C student at prep school can get into Yale by adopting a similar action plan of strategic birth control. (That is, controlling whom you're born to.)

OK, brilliant men differ, according to their political party allegiance, whether Bush is really an idiot. By definition of president, he's the right idiot in the right place at the right time. In any event, he's our (sic) idiot in Chief. So, let's all forget about politics, until after the next presidential election, and focus on what a great job Bush is doing to defend the free world.

Questioning who knew what when, or investigating what lead up to the attack on 9/11 is irrelevant to preventing the next attack. Anyone who believes that is either an idiot or a Republican.

Politically speaking, it's still OK to speak politically about how the war on terrorism is being fought, if you are praising the administration or raising funds for the GOP. But if you're a Democrat, or some other liberal idiot, just watch what you say.

What's wrong with having a political agenda? Bush is a politician. Anyone who thinks he's got his personal political ambitions on hold while he focuses on the war on terror is a political neophyte, or doyen. Bush is such a genius he can focus on his political agenda and lead the war on terror, but Daschle is an idiot. I don't know much about him, personally, and he may be a lot of things, but I doubt that idiot is one of them.

On the other hand, he could be an idiot who gets elected President of the United States. It's always someone. That's politics.