• Invading Congo? He really is turning us into Belgium after all.
• The Cain mutiny against establishment politics rolls on. Cain is a charmer, and he is right to buck against a press that fancies itself a political gatekeeper: e.g., “When they ask me who’s the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I’m going to say, ‘You know, I don’t know. Do you know?’” It’s not the zap answers to cover momentary lapses that alarm, so much as the sense that Cain’s lapses are subcontinental in scope. Immigration has been an inflamed issue for over 20 years, abortion for almost 40. Yet Cain can say the first plank of his immigration platform is building an electrified fence on the Mexican border, then say “that was a joke,” then say “I’m not walking away from that.” He can also say that regulating abortion “is not the government’s role,” then say that he is “100 percent pro-life.” Mutinies can be fun, but they need a foundation in substance if they are to succeed.
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