Line of the Day

From Josh's great discussion of the brouhaha over Reid calling Pace incompetent (and the 'similar' non-brouhaha over McCain saying much the same to/of Casey):

Some principles are clear and worth repeating: You can't have a war for democracy fought by people whose principles are authoritarian and anti-democratic. It's not a throwaway line or a barb. It's the only pivot around which to understand the Bush years.