PRIORITIES

I think it's interesting, and more than a little revealing, that amid all the events of the last few weeks Josh Marshall has found time to try and re-create a Lott moment out of Rep. Barbara Cubin's recent weird remarks--which she didn't even finish--but hasn't found the time to return to discussing North Korea and his insistence that Bush has been wrong from the start in his approach there.

Cubin is a back-bencher in the House; North Korea is a dangerous rogue state on the precipice of attaining nuclear status. Cubin never actually finished what she started to say; North Korea has made its intentions quite clear.

Which issue is more important in the grand scheme of things? Which issue should attract the attentions of "credible" liberals like Mr. Marshall? Why isn't Marshall addressing how he got North Korea so wrong, so often, so consistently? And if we're going down the road of parsing out every little word uttered by every politician, why hasn't Josh taken the obvious meaning of Sen. John Kerry's "regime change" remarks to task? Oh, he did--I see that he defended them, and jumped on the "those evil Republicans are attacking Kerry's patriotism" bandwagon.

Josh Marshall isn't a serious person. He's an idiotarian hack, a partisan shill blinded by his utter hatred for Republicans. It's that simple.