Boviosity!

Andrew Sullivan catches Michael Kinsley pulling a Jon Stewart, only this time in a "serious" commentary:

Mike Kinsley pulls off the astonishing feat of trying to tackle how president Bush went from being an anti-nation-building realist to a liberal internationalist in a few years without mentioning a certain incident that occurred, oh, say nine months or so into his presidency.

If I were a Democrat, I'd be really shocked and disappointed at this kind of thing. But then again, I was a Democrat during the Clinton years, and was so shocked and disappointed at this kind of thing that I stopped being a Democrat.

Sullivan goes on:

For them, 9/11 changed nothing important; it meant relatively little; it was a distraction from more important issues like Enron, as Paul Krugman opined, during the height of the Raines madness. These people don't just have blinders on; they've attached them with super-glue.

I think he gives them too much credit. It isn't blinders; they haven't forgotten 9/11 and its memory surely sears their hearts as much as it does mine. No, they just see some kind of political value in behaving as if 9/11 hadn't occurred.

I think they're wrong. We'll certainly see.