Former Presidents Carter and Ford met with Mr. Bush to give him the benefit of their cumulative wisdom in office, i.e., to recommend raising taxes on beer, wine, and gasoline, and doubling taxes on cigarettes, which is the kind of thing that got both of them removed from office.
The Democrats have elected George Mitchell of Maine as Senate Majority Leader, and sophisticated Republicans bless the day. If the Democrats had elected Daniel Inouye, for example, the issues would have been a bit obfuscated. But George Mitchell is the pure thing, so liberal he ought to be exhibited in a glass case. As Sophocles once remarked to the guys around the Agora: Self-definition is destiny.
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