It must be that New York air Nick Denton has been full o’ blogging vim lately, tossing out characteristically compressed, punchy, high-impact paragraphs, little depleted-uranium shells of blogosity. Here’s an excellent example:

Peggy Noonan forgives Bush for the farm bill, and steel tariffs: it’s what he needs to do to maintain political support for the war, she says. Oh, come off it. He’s just caved, and agreed to policies which are bad for the US economy and throw other nations into poverty. He caved. Say it. I respect Bush’s prosecution of the war, and his managerial ability, but people have given Bush the benefit of the doubt for 18 months, for all his life, for that matter. On vision, articulacy, trade, the Saudis, the Middle East, global development. It takes a really smart guy like Andrew Sullivan to justify such dumb actions. Let’s just give him the benefit of the doubt? Bush is the welfare queen of benefit of the doubt; it’s time he fended for himself.

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