Fallin' outa favor

Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone, who's written some good stuff on 9-11 conspiracy theorists, has another good piece, this time on how much the culture has turned on the GOP (not fast or hard enough, I think). The good part is how he takes on the people of the the mushy middle:

"What's dangerous about what's going on right now is that an electoral defeat of the Republicans next week, and perhaps a similar defeat in a presidential race two years from now, might fool some people into thinking that the responsibility for the Iraq war can be sunk forever with George Bush and the Republican politicians who went down with his ship. But in fact the real responsibility for the Iraq war lay not with Bush but with the Lettermans, the Wolf Blitzers, the CNNs, The New York Timeses of the world -- the malleable middle of the American political establishment who three years ago made a conscious moral choice to support a military action that even a three-year-old could have seen made no fucking sense at all."

I agree. The many people who couldn't be bothered to think are just as responsible for enabling the wingers to get as far as they have. Let's just hope the country starts to learn from its mistakes. I ain't holdin' my breath, though.