Check out this post. Sullivan links to a story discussing how the Republicans in the House sought to force the Democrats to debate Dennis Kucinich’s resolution calling for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. As the story makes perfectly clear, the Republicans were doing this to embarrass the Democrats, not because they believed Cheney ought to be impeached. Sullivan, however, seems to think that Liberty is about to rise Lazarus-like from the grave because at last, “Congress is finally tackling the issue of the vice-president’s attack on the constitution.” If Sullivan actually bothered to read the story he linked to, he would find that the Democrats in the House were desperate to table the Kucinich resolution so that they wouldn’t have to consider it and the Republicans were gleeful at the prospect of using it to sidetrack the Democrats and make them look like they were obsessed with Cheney. Hardly “tackling the issue of the vice-president’s attack on the constitution” and more like a smart parliamentary maneuver that caught the Democrats napping procedurally.

And then there is this. Evidently, by protecting pork barrel water projects, Madisonian democracy is being preserved against the ravages of the neocons. I wonder if Sullivan is on autopilot when he blogs or whether he just thinks that none of his readers are energetic enough to do what he ought to have done in the first place and closely peruse the posts and stories he tries to make public.