Hope you won't mind a brief diary without links -- you don't need 'em. I just think this has to be said loudly:
President Bush's closest advisor ruined an important U.S. anti-terror intelligence operation during a time of threat and war, and not only has President Bush actually promoted this advisor during the two full years since his act of sabotage, President Bush to this day will not fire his long-time advisor, even though the man's anti-American actions have now become public knowledge.
Now, many prominent Republican commentators, Republican politicians -- even the Chairman of the Republican National Committee himself -- have come out in support of this man who weakened America's defenses against weapons of mass terror.
Are the Republicans and President Bush with us, or against us? If seems to me if they are with us, then they are clearly soft on terror.
I don't like diaries with a single framing argument myself, but am I wrong or is this what it's all about, and thus worth one?