A Great Speech Is Literature.

The Democrats Had Long Labeled The Impeachment Debate A Distraction From The Urgent Business Of A Great Nation. But The Republicans Argued That The Pursuit Of Justice Is The Business Of A Great Nation. In Winning This Point, They Caught The Falling Flag, Producing A Triumph For The Rule Of Law, A Reassertion Of The Belief That No Man Is Above It, And A Rebuke For An Arrogance That Had Grown Imperial.

What Conservatives And Republicans Must Recognize Is That The White House Has Broken With Them. What President Bush Is Doing, And Has Been Doing For Some Time, Is Sundering A Great Political Coalition.

Now He Is A Statesman, When What He Really Wants Is To Be What Most Reporters Are, Adult Delinquents.

The Core Of The Concept Of A Bribe Is An Inducement Improperly Influencing The Performance Of A Public Function Meant To Be Gratuitously Exercised.

There Should Be A Name For This, For The Process Whereby One Knows One Is Being Yanked And Concedes It Has Been Done Successfully - That One Is Grateful To Have Been Spun. In The Theater, It Is Called The Willing Suspension Of Disbelief. That's What Allows The Play To Make An Impact On The Audience: They Have To Be Able To Make Believe That What's Happening On The Stage Is Really Happening. Maybe To A Degree It Is A Requirement For All Political Participation, All Effective Political Communication, Too.