It’s all about where you draw the line

I’ll make this quick:

Will you TV commentators please stop referring to Ted Kennedy in the past tense?

Thank you.

Public Radio program This American Life laments President Bush’s… well, I’ll let them say it:

Host Ira Glass talks with Yale law professor Jack Balkin about what he calls the Bush Administration’s “lawyering style,” a tendency to fight as hard as it can, on all fronts, to get what it wants.

Definitely a Bush thing. Those Clintons were complete pushovers.

(Okay, you could argue that it’s not the show, it’s the guest making the argument. But really, was NPR running these kinds of topics when Bill was in the White House?)

The following headline caught my eye in the Chicago Tribune this morning:

House Fails to Foil Health Care Veto

It took me a couple seconds to figure out if the bill passed or not!