Out of gas

What's Mark Steyn smoking?

"If America's political class wants to do the same, it could at least have the integrity to discuss the issue in honest terms."

Huh? When was the last time this happened? It's always been frustrating. Some guy who wrote about pigs once famously lamented the problem, E.B. White maybe, and he probably wasn't the first.

But goodness, since Clinton's day, lying isn't merely a governing art, it's a virtue. Admittedly, it's still causing some stress--all the "Bush lied" mania of the Manhattan media is doubtless an outgrowth of the contortions those poor souls went through to defend their man--but that will pass soon enough.