Righty Fratricide: No One Gets Away Clean
The first thing we do is kill all the better-qualified lawyers. Then we sack the think-tankers.
Bruce Bartlett of the Dallas-based conservative brains trust, the National Center for Policy Analysis, has been axed from his position there as a senior research fellow. Now, we're not saying it's because he recently scribbled this:
"[The nomination] of a patently unqualified crony for a critical position on the Supreme Court was the final straw..."
Or because he has a book coming out called this: The Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.
Or because, in a Townhall.com column entitled "Bless the Blogs," he cited Andrew Sullivan as his favorite post-and-linker, characterizing him (correctly) as a "gay British conservative with a Ph.D. from Harvard," and then characterizing him (incorrectly) as a former lefty with a therefore keener insight into that particular ideological affliction. (To keeponecreed's a task grown quite Herculean, / Is it not so, my Tory ultra-Julian?)
David Frum moving the family to Fort Sumter by nightfall.--MICHAEL WEISS
In Sign of Conservative Split, a Commentator Is Dismissed [NYT]
The final straw [Townhall.com]
Bless the Blogs [Townhall.com]
RELATED: Bang the Frum Slowly [Wonkette]