needs new material

The Democrats had better win, because in searching for something new to say in her comic-strip critiques of pols and public figures, Maureen Dowd is becoming seriously stupid.

In today’s “column” (why doesn’t she just hire an illustrator?) Ms. Dowd suggests that experience is not necessarily a good thing for government officials.

But if there’s one thing W.’s reign proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is this: Experience, like affectations, can be dangerous.

They will fill up history books with all the myopic misjudgments made by a war council with a couple of centuries of experience, blunders that undermined America’s security and integrity, wrecked Iraq, loosed Osama, and made the world more dangerous.

Those on the president’s “dream team” of foreign policy advisers were haunted, not strengthened, by their years of past service in top jobs. When they got the chance to run the country again under W., all they wanted to do was finish unfinished business, misapplying old ideas to new crises, like those who sabotage new romances with baggage from old relationships.

If anyone should know, honey, it would be you. At least your nemeses are married.