Downtown Tina Brown
Tina Brown shares my sense that Patrick Fitzgerald has run a much tighter and smarter shop than Ken Starr did.
(Doesn't Starr seem like a bad dream? Ugh.)
"Unlike Kenneth Starr's late, unlamented operation, neither Fitzgerald nor anyone around him leaks," Brown writes in her Washington Post column.
She continues: "It's hard not to see Fitzgerald as the possessor of authentic traditional American virtues. Fitzgerald deals in facts, and lets facts speak for themselves. Bush talks ceaselessly of faith. The prosecutor is all about substance, the president all about surface. In nominating his personal attorney to the most august thinking body in the land, the Supreme Court, the president was caught showing the dismissive view he's always held of intellectual depth and scholarly accomplishment."
Well...we shall see about this. Sometimes Tina's enthusiasm carries her away (one of the things I like about her, actually). But I do think this competence argument is really hitting home. Can this White House do anything right? It's botched the war...the budget...the weather...the environment. And Fitzgerald, by contrast, looks like a man who knows what he does well and goes about doing it.
Today should be interesting....
