Though this may interest only insiders, one of the odd things
about the Dubya years is the extent to which such a major player as
Bill Bennett has been ostracized by the Bush team. To make matters
worse, the president's spokesman has found reason to kick and punch
at Bennett while Bennett's in the clutches of lefty enforcers and
goons. What a profile in courage.
And so much for gratitude. The Bennett caper has given the Bush
White House cover. It doesn't have to rush off to name an O'Connor
successor just yet. To turn attention away from Tom DeLay and GOP
"troubles" and "disarray," all it needed to do was give the hounds
a scent of Bennett, whose only sin apparently is that he's not as
svelte as the president or as rhetorically inept.
