John Podhoretz argues that what matters in a blog is quantity–and that many or perhaps most of the Corner’s references to the president have a tone of “dismissive contempt.” I simply do not believe that this is true. (Nor do most of the emails I get suggest that most readers find that to be our tone.) And while I agree that the war on terrorism is the most important aspect of the Bush presidency, which justifies his re-election, I do not believe that every time we comment about, say, the campaign-finance reform sell-out we have to say that. But saying that ad nauseum would still be better than coming up with sorry excuses for Bush’s signing a bill that he knew violated fundamental constitutional principles.