Missing point alert

Dear readers:

After posting guest-pundit Drew Westen's commentary this morning, we noticed it had no real point. We're pretty sure it had one when we first decided to publish it--after all, why would we want to publish a pointless, four-page opinion piece?--but alas, we cannot recall what that point might have been (the existing version offers no clues) and now, wholly bereft of any incisiveness as this pointless piece is, we cannot imagine whatever else would have possessed us to proceed with putting nearly 2,300 words of such rambling pedestrianism into print.

Thus we've concluded there must have been a point. Somehow, it got lost; perhaps in the editing process, perhaps in the intangible mechanics of cyberpublishing, or maybe that damn Krauthammer walked off with it. Frankly, we just don't know, we simply have no idea where the point went. Should you find it, however, please return it.

Thank you,
The Editors, Washington Post 

Comments

[Beulahmo]

Literally lol'd.

I always tell all those people they're wrong -- you *are* a witty guy!

;-p

(love ya, P.M.)

[Robert Lipscomb]

The unidentified highlight of the convention and Obama's speech was Omama contemptuously laughing at 30 years of Reaganism.

“Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high? Try another. Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations and call us in the morning.”

It marries well with his stump speech phrase, "the snake oil of trickle down economics" and the phrase in Clinton's speech, "double-down on trickle-down". Instead of curling into the fetal position at the mention of Reagan or tax increases, Obama is taking it head-on.

Every other point is embedded in this because keeping our social safety nets while balancing the budget requires the complete defeat of Reaganism. What is so remarkable about Obama's quote is how unremarked upon it has been.

[Marc McKenzie]

I tried to read Westen's piece. I made it to page two.

Seriously, why should we expect anything less? Westen is rearranging the words, but the story is still the same--and stupid.