Semi-Daily Journal

Sounding a Bit "Shrill"

Matthew Yglesias says that Andrew Sullivan sounds a bit cranky:

Matthew Yglesias: Fun Vacation?: Andrew Sullivan's back and, frankly, he sounds a bit cranky for someone who's just been relaxing on the beach:

This was the month in which it became official that the Bush administration is not interested in restraining the size of the federal government [...] Nixon II? The other aspect of Bush's domestic policy that is now undeniable is insolvency. [...] you can't argue that Bush has shown even the slightest concern about it. [...] it's getting hard to believe the White House is in control of events any more. Osama bin Laden is regrouping in Afghanistan; Saddam, perhaps in league with al Qaeda, is fighting back in Iraq [...] the longer the impasse continues the harder it will be to get ourselves out of it. [...] if we are in a new and vital war, why are we not sending more troops to fight it? [...] The response so far does not strike me as commensurate with the problem.

And he didn't even mention the administration's social conservatism, the usual Sullivan-Bush sticking point...

I don't think he sounds cranky. I think he sounds shrill. I mean, you can hardly adopt Paul Krugman's position on every single thing about George W. Bush without being shrill, can you?