Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.