Just in case you wondered who the attack dogs for John McCain are: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who has for years been a reasonable voice against the shrill pantheon of Repub Sirens, has taken up the gauntlet and is now a leader in the harsh rhetoric against Barack Obama. Reason is no longer his foundation. His job is to attack and say the talking points loudly and angrily. Likewise in the media, David Brooks at the New York Times has clearly identified Obama as the enemy of America and castigates him now in ever column. This is a departure for Brooks, who has been conservative always, but has not been on the attack until the last month or so. These two are using their past lives to attrack media attention, but their message of harshness and name calling is new and reflects their allegience to the McCain campaign.

Brooks once again reinforces the Repub talking point (attempting to make History in a Repub image) that Ronald Reagan defeated the Soviet Union in the cold war and was responsible for the disapation of the Iron Curtain. Nothing could be more bogus. The Iron Curtain crumbled from within because of generations of corruption. The Soviet Union crumbled from the sheer weight of its ridiculous task, holding its people hostage. But any one who thinks that Ronnie Reagan deploying a few missles defeated them hasn't read his history books. The Soviets lost 21 million people in WWII. Seven million died in the Siege of Stalingrad. The mighty German army met its humiliation in Russia.

They took down the wall because they changed from within. Reagan just happened to be standing there when they changed. What logic is it that congratulates, yea deifies Reagen for "winning" (one of their favorite words) the cold war, yet place no blame on Bush for 911. They have no problem blaming President Carter for the Iranian hostage crisis and the gasoline crisis of the seventies. But Bush bears no responsibility for today's problems.

Sheesh.