Stanley, The New York Times not only has hired the liberal c partisan Nicholas Confessore to analyze and report on the president’s social security proposals, it’s also hired Richard Clarke as a the Sunday magazine’s national security analyst. Does anyone believe that had Clarke praised, rather than criticized, Bush policies, he would have this job? If so, clap your hands and think of Tinkerbell.

(Clarke’s first column appeared this weekend. Among its flabby arguments: That the U.S. attack on terrorists in Fallujah caused “enormous resentment” in the Islamic world.)